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A Chinese gentleman who belonged to a high official's family in the pre-Communist regime and who went to Tibet in search of wisdom and a master, spent eight years in a famous monastery in the latter country. He lived as a monk, studied and meditated under the advanced teachers, and was honoured with a title for his excellence in Buddhist learning. But in the end he left Tibet, got married, and had children. He told me that he felt there were weaknesses in his character which had to be worked out in a householder's life. He was honest and truthful. But how many monks did he leave behind in the monastery who had taken the vows, as he did, in their twenties and were now struggling with their sexual thoughts in secret?

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 7 : Sex > # 163