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How to Achieve Celibate Life?
Following methods are advised in Buddhism to establish celibate life:
Method1 : Avoid exposure
All that invokes non-celibacy in mind need to be avoided i.e. images, talk, touch etc.
Monks go to live in forest aloof in order to achieve this.
Method2 : View a person as skeleton
From: Dhammapada Verse 147 - Sirima Vatthu
By Viewing a person as a mass of bones, dispassion is generated.
Method3 : Look at teeth of laughing person
For a laughing person, look at teeth & consider these as bones only.
Method4 : Considering persons as mother, sister & daughter
Another way is to consider ladies as mother, sister & daughter as per their age(For males).
For females , males can be considered as father,brother or son.
Method5 : Meditate on 32 impurities of body
Know that human body is oozing various impurities, all foul. By bearing these in mind, dispassion is generated.
Impurities such as : Hairs on head, body hairs, nails, teeth, skin, flesh, sinews, bones, bone-marrow, kidneys, heart, liver, pleura, spleen, lungs, intestines, mesentery, contents of the stomach, excrement, bile, phlegm, pus, blood, sweat, fat, tears, grease, saliva, snot, fluid of the joints, urine.
Method6 : Looking at dead bodies for foulness & dispassion
During the time of Lord Buddha, monks were sent to charnel ground/cemetry/cremation ground to look at dead bodies & therefore generate unattractiveness, foulness & therefore dispassion towards human body & its various parts. In present times in buddhist countries, people look at pictures of dead bodies for the same purpose. Therefore pictures & photographs of dead bodies can be seen from internet from time to time in order to generate the right view of foulness of human body :
