Today, Roman Catholic (including Eastern Catholic), Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and some Protestant Christians consider masturbation to be a sin. Many Protestant churches in Northern and Western Europe and some Protestant churches in Northern America and in Australia/New Zealand see masturbation as not a sin. The enjoyment of life, when analyzed philosophically, is originally suffering, but if one can prevent suffering from coming, that is happiness. If a person's body and mind can always be happy, he or she will be able to prolong his or her life, and then he or she will be able to gain status, honor, wealth, and live peacefully for several decades, and this is happiness.

　　How many people in the world have achieved such happiness? Why is it so difficult to obtain these few things? Most people suffer from lust. People who are addicted to lust are sickly, age easily, and do not live a long life. This is an obvious suffering, and as a result, they lose their status, their reputation, and their wealth, which is an invisible suffering. It also affects family discord, separation of wives, social scorn, and deep-seated grudges, so what fun can be had when one comes to such a state.

　　Plus to the cause and effect, more terrible, the sutra said, the person who made prostitution, he got the retribution, is the wife and daughter unchastity, cut off the children and grandchildren, after death to become an animal into the hell, a hundred million robberies, not easy to turn around. Therefore, the Buddhist system of precepts, the first disciple is to abstain from prostitution, secular public opinion also said that all the evils of prostitution as the first, can see that this matter of lust, is really the root of the great evil. It is the accumulation of many lifetimes of habit, do not learn from it, the ancient sages, the world's wise, and those who know the way of the wise, have long seen the evils of it, some advocate the elimination, some advocate abstinence, and some limit the scope of the good words to persuade, but hope that people to break the barrier of the lost, out of the pain, to get well.

　　Now the trend has changed, from the pursuit of material enjoyment, gradually tending to indulge in lust, originally this matter, do not learn from the self, to prevent very difficult, but instead of advocating, yellow books, magazines, movies, are acting as a pornographic propaganda team, seducing the general young men and women confused and upside down, how many scandalous things have been created to hurt the public morals and customs, bankruptcy, family, lawsuits, suicides, peaceful society, into a burning oil pot. Who does not have a family, wife and daughter, this way, how to envision.

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