The Ultimate Zen Essay, Research Paper

The Ultimate Zen

The one problem with something being lost is the feeling one has for the object once it is gone. That felling of need and longing just creates pain. One could get rid of pain and loss if one could detach one’s self from these tokens. All emotional pain and suffering could be obliterated if one could think of all things, even people, as just things that come and go. This is not an excuse not to care about anybody. It is just a way not to wreck one’s life after something important has left. Sometimes, when a family member or spouse dies, people mourn for an unhealthy amount of time. Morning the death of a loved one is a healthy thing to do, but to let it consume the rest of the living’s life is completely unhealthy. These same feelings could be put towards sex as well. By detaching one’s self from the emotional part of it, there would be no regret, no guilt, no worrying, no sense of betrayal. It could be considered something fun to do with a friend, or merely something to pass the time.

One problem with sex is the emotional attachment that one gets to the other person after the act. This attachment is stronger in women than in men, but most men still feel it, even though it might not be as strong as the woman’s feelings. This sense of attachment will turn into abandonment if one partner does not speak to or see the other again. By detaching emotion from the entire act, this feeling of abandonment will never be felt. Sex does not always have to be between a couple either. It could just be between friends. For example: Instead of going to a movie together, two people could stay in and fornicate. This is where the whole friends-with-benefits idea comes from. They do not need to be with each other all the time and do not mind when they see other people, so just use sex as a recreational sport. It could take the place of baseball as the American Pastime.

Another emotion that could stem from sex is guilt. If a man was to sleep with a married woman, or visa versa, both would normally feel some sort of guilt. By detaching themselves from the entire act, they would feel nothing. One would be helping the other one by fulfilling needs that were not being fulfilled by the married one’s spouse. The unknowing person in the relationship that was betrayed might actually get along better with their spouse because his/her needs have been met, be it by someone else. Again, if the unknowing member was to find out, s/he would be outraged. To repeat myself for the fifth time, emotion would get in the way. Why would there even need to be the sanction of marriage where the State says who you can and cannot sleep with? People would feel much more free to be with who they wish without that little sting in the back of the mind eating at them day in and day out, forever and ever, until they die of natural causes or put themselves out of their misery because the guilt is eating them alive.

Sex is something that should be seen as fun and not some big ordeal that must be postponed until after marriage. Sex is easy. Sex is fun. Sex is something for everyone. With the right precautions, sex, basically, would be consequence-free if emotion were not to interfere. Everybody might start loving everybody else. The world could come together as one and participate in one loving, caring, worldwide orgy of peace and freedom from guilt and regret.