Being Different with Dignity: Buddhist Inclusiveness of Homosexuality
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Research Design
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Buddhist Inclusiveness of Homosexuality
“Homosexuals are as capable of wanting and of feeling love and affection towards their partners as heterosexuals are, and where such states are present homosexual sex is as acceptable as heterosexual sex.”
“I believe Buddhists’ attitudes towards LGBT are acceptance and love. Love only happens when we see others as equals with understanding and acceptance. The word tolerance isn’t even needed in this context. Support just comes naturally if one loves another, seeing it from a Buddhist perspective.”
“I’ve seen an email by a Buddhist saying LGBT [people] have no moral shame or fear of wrongdoing. Other Buddhists responded to this email [saying] that sexual orientation isn’t the issue; rather, it’s integrity and respect for each other.”
“My impression of Buddhists is largely formed of the particular [Buddhist] school I practise in, which is extremely open and accepting in the sense of not seeing any innate difference for someone practising who is LGBT, any more than a straight/heterosexual person … I have of course [benefited from] the usual widespread qualities of kindness, friendliness and acceptance of people within the Buddhist saṅgha [Buddhist monastic order in which the members are celibate and are officially ordained to provide religious services] in general.”
3.2. Interplay between Social Acceptance and Self-Acceptance
“The more I could learn to accept and understand myself, the more I could understand and feel more compassion for others and so feel more connected and less isolated. And also if I’ve been meeting maybe sometimes prejudices from others about my sexuality, I have more capacity to forgive and recognise that there may be some fear causing their attitude towards me. So I think it just gives me a lot more ways to understand the way human beings are relating to each other, for better or worse.”
3.3. Buddhist Insights
3.3.1. Non-Violating Precepts
He repeated the Buddhist viewpoint clearly, saying,“In the case of sexual behaviour, it’s not what gender your partner is … but rather what your intention is. So I’d say if your intention is to give and share, please, and express love and affection, and there was mutual consent, then that action would be good because your intentions are good, or positive. I just couldn’t see what would make that action immoral … If intentions were negative, that would be negative.”
“So homosexuality as such is neither positive nor negative, any more than heterosexuality is. What makes [it] one or the other is the intention behind the act. That’s not my opinion. That’s classical Buddhism.”
“When I practise the precepts, I was never told of any contradictions between the precepts and my sexual orientation … Basically I think in Buddhism everything begins with the intention. Intention is the key point. It doesn’t matter whether it’s same sex or opposite sex.”
“If two people [are] of the same gender or two people [are] of a different gender, their sexual actions are motivated by love and the desire to share, give comfort, or even have fun, that wouldn’t necessarily be an immoral act … Buddhist ethics about sex are primarily concerned with the motives behind our sexual behaviour, rather than the gender of our partner.”
3.3.2. Buddhist Equality
3.3.3. Manifestation of Existence
4. Implications
4.1. Methodological Implications
4.2. Practical Implications
5. Conclusions
Conflicts of Interest
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