Pannobhasa Buddhism Q&A

Questions include: the morality of Hindus; the morality of Hindu deities; the Buddha’s mysticism; nibbana vs. parinibbana; stimulation causing existence AND nonexistence; child sacrifice in the USA; why I no longer sit in meditation; jealousy; species collective memory; do I think I’ll go to heaven; Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta; my study of Vedanta; spiritual traditions similar to Buddhism; beard braiding; Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya; Buddhism as meaningless nihilism; knowledge without self; clouds as mandalas; the ethics of imagination; infinite ways to practice Dhamma; why the Buddha didn’t want to ordain women; endorsing the first two stages of ariya-hood; is Theravada mystical; my most beatific experiences; seeing through a glass darkly; why most devout Buddhists don’t practice very intensively; the most advanced lay Buddhist I have known; advanced lay practice; the conceit “I am”; the ethics of aspiring to enlightenment; and enlightened perceptions.URL Linkshttps://linktr.ee/pannobhasacurrent blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/website: pannobhasa.orgMinds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharmaYouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videosSubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharmaDiscord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on requestTwitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSCPaypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/PannobhasaCashApp: $pannobhasaMY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9DALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-13rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Questions include: why the Vimuttimagga is ignored in Theravada; why I like F. H. Bradley; missing rock ’n’ roll as a monk; Paramahamsa Yogananda, his book, and his organization; being on an Indian reservation; speaking fluent Burmese; a near death experience which seems to disprove Buddhism; lucid dreaming; the real Tig; book-publishing software; when a meditator is reborn as an animal; jhana meditators after death; discussing Islam on a video; visas for foreign monks in Burma; “Samsara=Nirvana”; the root of samsaric existence; meditation in various postures; doing “busier” meditation; and purposely exposing myself to miserable situations for spiritual reasons.URL Linkshttps://linktr.ee/pannobhasacurrent blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/website: pannobhasa.orgMinds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharmaYouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videosSubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharmaDiscord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on requestTwitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSCPaypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/PannobhasaCashApp: $pannobhasaMY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9DALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-13rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Questions include: are villagers more moral than city people; taxonomic categories; public nudity; chakras; meditation and right view; the origin and nature of spontaneous mental imagery; how enlightenment stops rebirth; the notion of karma as a means of controlling the populace; the meaning of “liberty”; my parents’ Christian upbringing; a transsexual monk; the purpose of reason; a postcard; Jainism; Shri Shankara; Mahamudra; being sucked into Samsara; breeding poison dart frogs; Buddhist tattoos; Gnostics; Sufis; non-Buddhist mysticism; pure mind storing memories; the purpose of past life memories; and reasons why Ego is pernicious.URL Linkshttps://linktr.ee/pannobhasacurrent blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/website: pannobhasa.orgMinds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharmaYouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videosSubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharmaDiscord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on requestTwitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSCPaypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/PannobhasaCashApp: $pannobhasaMY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9DALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-13rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Questions that I address include: not wanting to meditate, Buddhist physical fitness, meditating monks, intellectualism, mysticism, my 30th anniversary as a monk, chanting, Abhidhamma, the meaning of my Pali name, Amida Buddha, faith, geckos, karma, the nature of good and evil, obsolete (or damned inconvenient) monastic rules in the modern west, the decline of Christianity, the meaning of “Dhamma,” race/class/caste in ancient Buddhist India, congenital spiritual limitations, and the Lotus sutra and “skillful means”

Questions in this episode include some on: Gordon Ramsay's attitude, traditional Asian Buddhism, monasticism in the west, the psychological nature of existence and nonexistence, ancient pre-Buddhist teachers, Internet Buddhism, chanting, SJW monks, basics of archaic Buddhism, the validity of mystical experiences, metta, health, rebirth, superstition, and the display of psychic powers.

A hypothesis: the lag between audio and video may have been caused by too many open tabs on my computer.Questions include: David Hume vs. dependent co-arising; why westerners become monks; positive responses from western non-Buddhists; karma in the block of marble; the self-sustaining aquarium project; when I met my sweetheart; monastic practice during the rains retreat; the title of my hypothetical autobiography; immoral monks; the inhumanity of Buddhist practice; mindfulness in lay life; responding to a Hindu and his Atman; is dependent co-arising permanent; Aristotle’s “Pure Act”; Aristotle vs. Aquinas vs. Buddha; taking Dhamma more seriously; my favorite Q&A; discouraging someone from becoming a Zen monk; no guaranteed enlightenment; seeking the unconditioned; The Book of the New Sun; Don Quixote, Erasmus; waking to fear and dread; Buddhist funerals; (not) attending Ajahn Chah’s funeral; keeping a Buddha statue as a monk; George Berkeley; gladdening the mind; my metaphysics; New Age and occultism; what makes a monk; the role of wisdom; Kinsman of the Sun; Canadian assisted dying; and the ethics of lying.URL Linkshttps://linktr.ee/pannobhasacurrent blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/website: pannobhasa.orgMinds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharmaYouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videosSubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharmaDiscord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on requestTwitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSCPaypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/PannobhasaCashApp: $pannobhasaMY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9DALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-13rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Questions include: Buddhist causality in everyday life; Qi Gong master John Chang; monastic sexual desperation; Bhikkhu Buddhadasa; Dhamma as gladdening the mind; Bob Dylan; avoiding conversation with stupid people; sankhara vs. dhamma in the three marks; when I stopped making progress; associating with normies; familial takes on Dharma immersion; religious strong and weak points; debating a Hindu; the problem of self; being drawn to Dhamma; belief in God; corruption in institutionalized religions; a new human with no karma; Schopenhauer; seeing mental illness in oneself; Buddhist halos; levels of conventional truth; is abstention enough; how to go deeper; “non-proliferative imagination”; “character is fate” in Buddhism; the good fortune of being ordained in a Burmese tradition; lion—birthday—pond; the ecology of my fish pond; the meaning of Om; the meaning of mindfulness; and my favorite Woody Allen movie.

In which I answer, or try to answer, all questions but one. Including the topics of false saints, support of traditional Theravada in the west, spirit possession, nationalism, meditation, ordination, faith, Burma, Indonesia, monastic etiquette, food, psychedelic drugs, Bodhidharma, Zen, good translations, Julius Evola, and enlightened animals.

Questions are about Buddhism in the west, basic Buddhist practice, mysticism, enlightenment, and self-immolation, along with a few other topics.

Questions in this episode include some on: Gordon Ramsay's attitude, traditional Asian Buddhism, monasticism in the west, the psychological nature of existence and nonexistence, ancient pre-Buddhist teachers, Internet Buddhism, chanting, SJW monks, basics of archaic Buddhism, the validity of mystical experiences, metta, health, rebirth, superstition, and the display of psychic powers.