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Cohabitation and Buddhist Perspective


Cohabitation in western is not strange, they live apart with their parents when they are eighteen, stand on their feet and face the challenging. Burmese life-style is totally different with westernwes; Burmese usually stay closely with their parents, therefore one family normally has four or five members. Burmese, who have no sexual knowledges and value their virginity, hardly make love before their marriage. Their different life-styles drive them dissimilar approach to cohabitation. Moreover, Burmese believe in Buddhism in which scriptures mentions cohabitation as serious demeritorious actions.

Any women guarded by parents, relative or brothers, etc and married women are to be avoided. If one does relationship with them one commits Kamesumicchacara, sexual violation or committing in adultery. That guilt will pull down to lower hell realms for many years, then female animals, then gay, then women life and eventually one can regains man life. That is what the Buddhist believes; we often converse about the large numbers of female in world wide that indicates the growth of sexual violation or committing in adultery. In this case, Westerners can argue that cohabitation is not sexual violation that is done by dual agreement. According to Buddhism, if partner is under the guard of someone or married, it’s Kamesumic-chcara.

Well, let’s keep aside the consequences of the life after of the bad results of Kamesumicchacara and see in this very existence. Many step-childs with miserable circumstances in the world, some Asian women deliver white child and some black African child, thousand of couples divorce due to adulterous cases in both side of husband and wife, above all, enjoyable families broke into peaces.

We can imagine as well the most harmful and incurable diseases come where from. In this case, I remember a proverb “From a short pleasure comes long repentance”. That’s quite fits to this, though I’m not sure what the composer aim for.