"Sex and Buddhism," Part 3: Sin and Marriage

Maurice O'C Walshe, Buddhist Publication Society (bps.lk), edited by Wisdom QuarterlySexual Pleasure and the Concept of "Sin"Reduced to essentials, the great debate about sex revolves, for many people, around the [Christian] concept of "sin."To the Puritan, indulgence in sexual activity for the sake of pleasure is evil, wicked, or "sinful" (i.e., displeasing to God). To the permissive person, this is nonsense.We probably reject the term "sin" as meaningless, and not only see nothing evil in sexual...

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Debt, Sin, Guilt, and the Way Out (video)

Sonali Kolhatkar, Martina Steiner, Uprising.com; David Graeber; Wisdom Quarterly  (Uprising Radio) David Graeber is an American anthropologist, who teaches at Goldsmiths University of London. He is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and a founding activist in the Occupy Movement.David Graeber shows how debt (in many languages a word translated into "sin" or "guilt") and debt-forgiveness have been at the center of political debates across the world.   They have given rise...

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