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Otyets Semyon Borisovitch
You know what they will do to you when you come to the right age? They will try to seduce you. They will use all the soft, cunning, deceitful ways they have, their flesh, their soft skin, their sweet voices, and they will take your seed--you know what I mean by that--they will drain you and leave you hollow! They will take your future, your children that are to come, and leave you nothing.--Priest's warning to young boy in The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman.
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- Dorian Paskowitz
- The most fertile of monks.--more...
- Limits of Faith
- For humans, the survival power of religious faith lies in its code, a code laid down by our forefathers and recorded to guide us, as genetic code guides the life of the ant.
To survive and retain its identity through time, faith must resist change. But faith too must --more...
- Symbols of Faith
- The busy ant has faith. He works hard. He doesn't ask why he is here.
Humans like to ask questions. Why are we here? But we invest in our children because we have faith in the future.
People without faith do not want to invest in children. They think the faith --more...
- Stoicism
- The Stoics saw the world as a single great community in which all men are brothers, ruled by a supreme providence which could be spoken of, almost according to choice or context, under a variety of names or descriptions including the devine reason, creative reason, natu --more...
- Dalai Lama, the Political Monk
- A fertile mind protected in the land of Ghandi
Many of today's young Tibetans are less enthralled with the Dalai Lama than are their counterparts outside of Asia.Seen as weak on the issue of Chinese domination of Tibet, some would rather fight that submit --more...
- Monkhood in the Thai Tradition
- The concept of monkhood in the Thai tradition is pretty simple. It is considered a sacred ritual, a sign of respect, and a holy deed that a son does for his parents. By entering the monkhood, it is said that one will guarantee a place for his parents in Nirvana or heave --more...
- Choose your devout woman
- Unmatched? The aspiring fertile monk may find his ideal partner here.
Photo copyright © Fotolia.com --more... - Celibate Monks
- The traditional view of a monk is someone who denies himself sexual pleasure, though in fact many monks have an active, if not always conventional sex life. --more...
- Infertile Monks: Castrati Monks
- While thousands of castrated boys provided singers, the role of ruling eunuchs is less well known. --more...
- Techno Warrior Monk
- Traditionally in the west, monks are the "wise men" who swear off the pursuit of worldly pleasures and also forgo the distractions of reproduction. But here we seek the way of the Fertile Monk. The man who successfully commits himself to the responsibilities of --more...
- Monk Must Study Social Currents
- Stampedes begin slowly, with everyone headed in the same direction. We seek flows to engage us in the streams of daily life. The wise fertile monk foresees dangerous currents in public opinion and politics, currents in technology and media, currents in methodology. At t --more...
- Over the Cliff
- The churches were an essential part of the movement. It took over seventy years of a growing vilification of Jews to become a holocaust. Hitler didn't start it. He saw a mass hysteria and stepped to the forefront so that he could lead, swept along by its --more...
- Master Monk
- A father's restrained control is beneficial
You must remain the master of your child, yet the fertile monk wants to empower his genetic line, ready it for the competition of other lines. You want your line to be prepared to meet life's challenges with confide --more...
- Sex Witches Command Secret Powers
- because popular myths handicap parents. Facing those brutal truths we don't want to face is essential to exercising reasonable control and to recognizing the limits of our power to control everything.
Parents whose principal information source is the popular media ma --more...
- The Dalai Lama with Nelson Mandela
- Everywhere I go I find the same friendliness and hospitality, and a thirst for knowledge about Tibet.--more...
- Man's Instinct to Serve
- Nature has shaped us with an inborn ability to protect and serve. --more...
- The Nature of Nurture
- Most of us cannot and don't want to live like our distant forefathers did. But if we are to understand ourselves, we need to know where we are coming from. For that reason it is important to give some thought to how our forefathers lived. --more...
- How Meditation Helps Dads
- Some men find that meditation helps them relax and reflect on life. The Zen of life reveals to us a natural concept of morality. --more...
- A Zen Parable of Trust
- To build wisdom, judgment and strength of character, one must encounter falsehood and learn to recognize it. --more...
- Why monks? Why fertile monks?
- In some ways becoming fathers turns us into monks. We serve others at our own expense. We deny ourselves many worldly pleasures. We get philosophical. --more...
