Finding Middle-Path

In sailing to get the "Close Haul" on the edge of the no-go-zone the boat is streered into the wind until the sails begin to flap. The boat is then turned away from the wind slightly until they fill again.

Finding middle-path might be quite like this. Cutting away the luxuries until the sails begin to flap, i.e. the body and mind begins to suffer. Then by increasing the luxury the body and mind becomes healthy again.

As time progresses the practitioner will be able to steer closer and closer to the wind, removing luxuries step by step until true necessity and real living is established.

The question above all others in the blog so far has been the issue of whether sex/love are necessary to life. In a biological interpretation of Life this is sort of true, however biology is not teleological and the extinction of a species is not in itself a bad thing. Human's could go extinct without any murmur from biology.

The question must be answered in the "human" living real, the world of values and appreciation of the true state of reality. That has been focus of the blog for a long while now.

I believe that sex and love are non essential to human life. However I have been steering very gradually closer to the wind, and have experienced a lot of suffering in doing this. But I'm beginning to see that it was worth it because in reality the body and mind will not suffer from abstinence once it is done properly and willingly.

That said it is still a possibility that some form of sexual relationship is a basic necessity for some, albeit a more spiritual non-physical flavour than normally conceived.