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attraction, others have deliberately chosen to change their sexual preferences in order to use sex as a medium of kalyana mitrata" (spiritual friendship). He also suggests that "male-female relationships ā¦ are probably not particularly spiritually productive", and he speaks "of the dangers of male-female relationships". Those who cannot follow such ideas, he suggests, are blocked by "taboo" or a "reluctance to give up a conditioned predisposition",
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death in 2018, Subhuti and
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retreat centre, near
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1018:"An old net for new monsters" ā National Library of Australia
822:"The Buddhist vision: a path to fulfilment" ā Google Books
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Sangharakshita: A New Voice in the
Buddhist Tradition
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904:"A guide to the Buddhist path" ā Google Books
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833:"The Buddhist handbook" ā Internet Archive
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