Question & Answer #93: from Living and Dying Well to the State of Fourth Jhana

Questions include: good karma preventing icky diseases; the karma of insects and humans; learning Burmese; supporting strict monks (and not supporting lax ones); five contemplations; “Yogi Hitler”; channel membership; sharing merit; the faculty of imagination; Actual Freedom; the ethics of blinding criminals instead of executing them; subjective vs. objective; learning Pali; meditation guidance in the Anguttara Nikaya; my favorite Mahayana texts; samatha vs. “vipassana”; the ethics of voting for the lesser evil; attaññū and kālaññū; are monks allowed to vote; would Buddha allow monks to use social media; Indian Neo-Buddhism; western occultist virtues and Dharma; evidence for the paranormal; the Matrix; symbolic wisdom in movies; spiritual science fiction; my favorite story about the Buddha; Brahmayana; conscience in Buddhism; Free Will; monastic discipline; Burmese music; and fourth jhana.

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MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D
ALSO, 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=1-1
3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860