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Question & Answer #192: from Near Death Experiences to How to Get Rid of Your Money

Questions include: the ethics of “crossing the bridge” in a near death experience; how one becomes a hungry ghost; the depth of the body of water of these questions; wading the ocean and staying dry; bumping into Buddha; the Buddha’s goal; health and performance boosters; Hume vs. Schopenhauer on c…

Question & Answer #191: from Natural Law to Patterns of Memory and Karma

Questions include: my opinion on Natural Law; Natural Law in relation to Buddhist morality; Christians vs. Pagans taking over the postmodern west; the motivation of sensuality in conflicts; cleaning a cemetery; the most difficult rule in the Patimokkha; a Zen monastery I visited; the special event …

Question & Answer #190: from Why It Is Harder to Get Enlightened Now to the Benefits of Prayer

Questions include: why there are fewer enlightened beings nowadays; would the Buddha be surprised to see the current state of the world; thinking about dying; Nagarjuna’s interpretation of dependent co-arising; robot Buddhist monks; overcoming aversion for death and decay; what the Buddha said abou…

Question & Answer #189: from Martin Heidegger to the Nature of Perception and Volition

Questions include: thoughts on Heidegger; freeing oneself from the confines of religion; the significance of the number 84,000; doing another livestream; recollection of past lives; how to know if a recollection of past lives is not just imagination; renunciation in the west; the ethics of veganism…

Question & Answer #188: from Induced Mysticism to the Most Underrated Buddhist Text

Questions include: Catholic vs. Theravadin explanations for the inability to master deep contemplative states; psychedelics and genuine mystical/spiritual experiences; if the Buddha took LSD; the religion of the future; group karma; the animal mind and enlightenment; extreme generosity and virtue i…

Question & Answer #187: from Female Impediments to the Reason for Bodhisattvas

Questions include: are women an impediment to progress; stream enterers; losing unification of mind; petting the puppy (but not totally spanking it); Big Time Wrestling; my favorite villain; ultimate awareness and impermanence; problems with conscious computers; my attitude towards a military draft…

Question & Answer #206: from Dealing with a Celibate Spouse to My Favorite Ethnic Food(?)

Questions include: what to do if one’s wife doesn’t like sex; troubles with organic evolution; more on the ethics of lying; karma as a mental state; why sobriety can be less pleasant than drunkenness (even though one sees reality more clearly); the ethics of sarcasm; enlightened beings owning cell …

Question & Answer #207: from the Mulamadhyamaka Karika to What to Do in Bodh Gaya

My apologies to Rui for overlooking his question. It was on the list but somehow I scrolled right past it. It will be answered first on the next one, insh'allah. Questions include: my preferred translation of the Mulamadhyamaka Karika; why I didn’t want to master the Burmese language; Buddhist…

Question & Answer #208: from Enlightened Class Struggle to the Evolution of Buddhism & Christianity

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Questions include: oppression of advanced spiritual beings; what to do about Internet addiction; the ethics of buying and selling pygmy meat in the Congo; the case of Lindsay Clancy; the possibility of human immortality; is immortality even desirable; would I want to be immortal; the justice of mat…

Question & Answer #209: from the Pali Word ”Sati” to the Rewards of Good Karma

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Questions include: the meaning of sati (and whether the Buddha used the word); the karma of common vices; underwater meditation; the justice of earning wages; becoming less complacent; later Buddhist schools as symptoms of degeneracy; St. John of the Cross on bad meditation; a description of Nibban…