Photo by Sarah Keen

“There was a sense of shock in the large living room looking out onto the native Australian bush outside the windows. Kangur Khensur Rinpoche had been giving an impromptu after-dinner teaching to three married couples, and myself (his attendant), and had just said words to the effect that all ordinary sexual activity is non-virtuous…”

Read more on one monk’s thoughts about the process of growing up as a sexual being …

From Mandala March-May 2002