A quote from Plato on soulmates

[Tis Armand]

Originally Posted by JosephineBloggs

What about monks and nuns, widows and widowers, before people marry, I'm sure there's many more examples, just a few off the top of my head. Can they not be on a worthy spiritual path? Jesus didn't marry did he?

Monasteries and nunneries are often full of people having sex with one another. Sexual repression leads to stranger outbursts of lust and wet dreams are the recurrent theme. Many of the older nuns look favorably upon a fresh girl entering the nunnery. All those lonely and miserable monks and nuns achieve nothing but sexual repression, wet dreams and sordid imaginations.

Jesus was already an awakened being. He didn't need to marry but his disciples did because they were not at his level. The spiritual path begins when the sexual fire awakens.

Read between the lines. Buddha said it clearly: Enlightenment is in the sexual organs of a woman. Look it up. Do your research before you throw yourself into a nunnery.

[JosephineB]

Originally Posted by Tis Armand

Monasteries and nunneries are often full of people having sex with one another. Sexual repression leads to stranger outbursts of lust and wet dreams are the recurrent theme. Many of the older nuns look favorably upon a fresh girl entering the nunnery. All those lonely and miserable monks and nuns achieve nothing but sexual repression, wet dreams and sordid imaginations.

Jesus was already an awakened being. He didn't need to marry but his disciples did because they were not at his level. The spiritual path begins when the sexual fire awakens.

Read between the lines. Buddha said it clearly: Enlightenment is in the sexual organs of a woman. Look it up. Do your research before you throw yourself into a nunnery.

I wasn't planning on throwing myself into a nunnery.
I thought you were advocating celibacy in your other thread?

[Tis Armand]

Originally Posted by JosephineBloggs

I thought you were advocating celibacy in your other thread?

Celibacy until you find the right partner.

In any case, according to cosmic laws, a celibate period of 12 months should always be observed between two partners.

[JosephineB]

Originally Posted by Tis Armand

Celibacy until you find the right partner.

In any case, according to cosmic laws, a celibate period of 12 months should always be observed between two partners.

So in the between times, or before or after, do you see any value or possibility of a spiritual life?

[Tis Armand]

Originally Posted by JosephineBloggs

So in the between times, or before or after, do you see any value or possibility of a spiritual life?

What exactly are you asking?

[JosephineB]

Originally Posted by Tis Armand

What exactly are you asking?

Is it possible to do God's work inside and outside a marriage?

[Tis Armand]

Originally Posted by JosephineBloggs

Is it possible to do God's work inside and outside a marriage?

You're talking about the will of God, the Father’s will. People should do what God wants them to do. Are there some people in the world whose Heavenly Fathers don't want marriage? I don't know. If you know that your Divine Father wants you to marry, you should go for it, but do it correctly. Then, generally speaking, whatever work you have to do, will be easier to accomplish if you are married to the right person.

[JosephineB]

Originally Posted by Tis Armand

You're talking about the will of God, the Father’s will. People should do what God wants them to do. Are there some people in the world whose Heavenly Fathers don't want marriage? I don't know. If you know that your Divine Father wants you to marry, you should go for it, but do it correctly. Then, generally speaking, whatever work you have to do, will be easier to accomplish if you are married to the right person.

Yes, the will of God before marriage, while married or in between or after marriage. It's all good