July 4, 2025

Thangka of Four Armed
Chenrezig (अवलोकितस्वर)

Friday:
My views on celibacy – July 4, 2025

I hold that the complete victory over the material is the victory over the sin, particularity over the most primitive and beastly sin – sexual lust. Celibacy is the practice of not only rejecting sexual lust, it is the practice of gaining skillful means, of attaining true independent rank among men, and of becoming the nobleman in seeking the betterment of himself and all sentient life – it is to love the all and to reject the object in the flesh. Sexual lust always takes the form of the beast, the beast praying on his next victim, for lust is nothing but the justification to give into the beast, to allow yourself to transform into the beast and to become one with your animal nature, to become completely governed by your most primordial instincts and to fall for every whim of your inner animal. In the liberal paradigm governed by the humanist axiom, it has become quite acceptable and indeed normal to express your every sexual urge and to celebrate these urges as the complete expression in the victory of the "natural" man in his rightfully liberated and tolerant station; man's expression of sexual urges is the rejection of the natural, the sacred, the pure, and is the final and most advanced form of man's rebellion against his place in the societal and celestial order – it is man's full embrace of his anti-transfiguration. By allowing for the expression of the most primitive and most animalistic urges, modern man has rendered himself liberated, or so he thinks, for this is no state of freedom; this is the state of willing chaos and of total rebellion against the sacred and against the transcendental nature of the celestial order. Modern man seeks the short term at every turn, the pleasurable, and the hedonistic, indeed he seeks the rejection of the celestial order and of his own love and decent respect for everything in the creation, for he has set himself apart and above the creation – he has proclaimed his victory over the material and thus his station as the King and arbiter of the material order.

    The idolatry of the liberal order both enables and demands the degeneration of man, for it promotes the cycle of death, the death of man's will and of man's drive to seek out the source within the creation, and thus man has been rendered an object, an object of every sexual urge under the Sun, and in line with the leitmotif of the liberation from the orderly, every urge and every abuse of and on man's body has to be tolerated, all in the name of "peace" and "compassion" for man's wayward and unruly nature. For the improvement of man, the rejection of urge and the victory of the moral and the pure is seen in modern times as "oppression" and an attempt to "incarcerate" man, for only the "natural" and liberal man, the man who embraces his every instinct and is said to be governed by his "reason", can be thought of and labeled righteous, compassionate, and truly enlightened. This is the sign of the Kali Yuga and the decay of the world will only accelerate as we approach the close of this era.

The Medicine Buddha (भैषज्यगुरु)*

    Purity of the moral in this sense, means the abstention from the whims of the beastly, the rebellion against the Kali Yuga, and this would be the only way to embrace the light, to seek the meaning of profound insight; the journey of the enlightened, the nobleman, has to start with the skillful mean of rejecting the beastly. There are also many positive medical aspects within the material domain to expect in embracing the path of celibacy, but the positive spiritual aspects—such as the nourishment of vital essence, the skillful mean of discipline, and the retention of energies and qualities of the soul—far outweigh the positive material aspects on this journey and any man seeking the source should embrace those aspects, for without them he is no different from the beast in the image of the liberal man. Verily, the path of the enlightened has become the vanguard of the moral and the righteous in the modern world, but only few men will dear to traverse this path, but do know that the practice of celibacy will guide you far on the path of becoming truly enlightened and enter the transcendental place above the Earth. Become the warrior for the light and the all, but in becoming the warrior of the righteous, reject the means and the ways of the beast, for you are operating for the benefit of all sentient life – you are under embracing the Bodhicitta. In the end, the one thing that clearly separates man from the beast, is his ability to win over his nature and to become the better man, to ascend far above the material and the animalistic and to walk on the same plane as his creator – for he is the nobleman. Become the nobleman – embrace celibacy and reject sexual urges and all the other beastly urges that operate for the destruction of your soul.

*For "The Medicine Buddha (भैषज्यगुरु)" image source: click here

Reginald Drax – July 4, 2025.