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<\/a>Some of the ongoing issues in the transmission and adaptation of Buddhism<\/a> to the West and to the postmodern world are love, intimacy, sexuality and their relationship to dharma<\/a> practice. I am familiar with Geshe Michael Roach through his very useful book on karma and emptiness, The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Strategies for Managing your Business and Your Life.<\/span> Thanks to E for recommending a recent NY Times article about Geshe Michael Roach and his spiritual partner, Christie McNally.<\/p>\n
After reading the article and the longer interview sited below, I find myself inspired and wondering. Roach and McNally live together in a yurt, vowing never to be more than fifteen feet from each other. They view their relationship as celibate and yet they also report that they practice high-level tantra.<\/p>\n
On the one hand, it is refreshing to find a couple who create a dharma reality together and stick to it regardless of the contemporary boundaries that divide spirituality and love. On the other, I find myself wondering (based on my own experience), how much intoxication is going on here?<\/p>\n
Other questions include, how can we enter a tradition without selectively using elements of that tradition to justify our self-clinging? What should be kept private (to the extent that privacy is still possible) and what should be shared publicly?<\/p>\n
Check it out: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/15\/garden\/15buddhists.html.<\/a><\/p>\n
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