Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00746)

Hello Erica,

--- In theos-talk "Erica Letzerich" wrote:

> Well Lama Yeshe mentions the following:
> Therefore it should be emphasized that until we have gained mastery 
> over our subtle body and have 'embraced' the blissful kundalini 
> energy dormant within, we are not at all qualified to embrace an 
> external consort..."

I think this point has no practical importance, for me at least,
for I am far from mastering the subtle body. So I have the full right 
to read it simply as "you shouldn't".

> Or you do not know that in the Vinaya Pitaka sexual intercourse is
> forbidden and even release of sperm except if it happens during 
dreams?

Maybe these contraditions were meant by Tzonkhapa when he wrote
as to "which things are permitted and which are prohibited".

Of course, most tantric practices known to us have no anything common 
with sex but are meditations on yidams.