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Tao Stoic 240

"Master, the sex drive, being the normal basic pursuit of control, is not different from hunger and thirst, is not that so?"

"Basically it is, yet, there is a world of gigantic differences between the two."

"I don't understand."

"Hunger and thirst are basically pure bodily demands. The body demands, and a long delayed satisfaction causes death. Not so with human sexuals. You don't die from not copulating. While in the animal kingdom, the sexual demand too, is purely body (although not lethal when denied), in the human beast, the urge is ideational and therefore may easely reach into insanity. Nonfulfillment is absolutely harmless, as in animals, yet, the Mind can become totally destroyed, getting far and far below any animal thinkable.

Hence, it is, for us, so necessary to teach acknowledgement of the basic bodily needs, like hunger and thirst, but an education also for an UTTER control over the ideational drives that are so keen to control US up till insanity level. Of necessity, one cannot teach this without teaching True Words about CONTROL itself."


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Ven 2005-01-24