Question & Answer

Описание: Questions include: the Buddha’s attitude towards chanting; meditation leading to “the source of projection”; Edgar Cayce; Pali for “the Left Hand of the Supreme”; possibly even better names; teaching serious Dhamma when women might listen(!); looking for love in Thailand; the Divine Spark in the Bible and the Upanishads; how to stop chasing certainty; how to stop catastrophizing; advice for an intensive meditation retreat; ven. Ajahn Punnadhammo; dealing with pride; do people have a duty to reproduce; is being a reproductive dead end negative; the change of consciousness from half-starved Bodhisatta to enlightened Buddha; the transition of consciousness at the death of the Buddha; understanding what is and is not karmic in one’s life; completely working out karmic issues; what jhana is like; a Buddhist term for a semi-realized or incompletely mastered state; whether monks are required to eat everything offered into their alms bowl; the Emperor Ashoka’s favorite or preferred school of Buddhism; nun robes vs. monk robes; lay life vs. monastic life; assisted self-deletion in Canada; is only suffering (dukkha) real; why I don’t believe the four stages of ariya-hood; satisfying “intellectual needs” as a monk; is there an ethical obligation to engage in philanthropic pursuits; (depression vs. renunciation); the Mahayanist icchantika, or person whole-heartedly wallowing in samsara; the early temptations of Buddha and Jesus; would I have had children if I hadn’t become a monk; time travel to the Buddha’s India; not going crazy when living alone; armed conflict between Cambodia and Thailand; killing murderers as a moral act; life as a kind of large-scale doom scrolling; the meaning of *sankhara*; and ghost stories for Christmas Eve.

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