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Please cite the big books, bud. He also believes that marketing drives many of us to invent problems because we lack perspective and forget that happiness is found in solving problems and serving others. Those are good messages to anybody creating a start-up or even chasing a sales quota. Care about more important things and alleviate some of your existential unhappiness. The man with alcoholism?

Sex is experienced as different things by different people. It can be used to show true love or affection. It can be used simply to have fun. It can be used to smooth things over when you have gotten into a fight with your spouse or as an excuse to indulge your laziness and not get out of bed. It can be a wonderful, painful, humiliating, and at times, I would posit, a compassionate activity. In terms of Buddhism and sex, we know for a fact that even the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, had it, because his wife, Yasodhara, eventually gave birth to a son, and — as far as I know — sex is generally how children are created. Flash forward to when Siddhartha became The Buddha.

In a shrine on the sixth floor of a Manhattan office building, a photo of a man in golden robes hangs above an altar. Another photo of him sits upon a throne. He is the head of one of the largest Buddhist organizations in the West, Shambhala International, a network of more than outposts in over 30 countries where thousands come for training in meditation and mindfulness and some delve into deeper mysteries.

Badiner holds a masters degree in Buddhist studies and has been a student of Thich Nhat Hanh for over 20 years. If I want to live an enlightened life, do I need to stop having sex? Yes, you would need to stop.