Question & Answer #106: from Christian Nationalism to Hitting a Wall in Your Practice

Questions include: the west returning to Christianity; Willy Wonka; the deeper method; the Gospel According to Thomas; satire; Monty Python; gain associated with precepts; enlightened beings with latent desires; Bodhisattva vows inhibiting enlightenment; causality of diseases; Buddha’s omniscience; the left-hand path; sutta definitions of the five aggregates; aversion for Samsara as a meme; immoral monks; differences between the Burmese and Americans; Buddhism and psychology; the country with the most “elite” practitioners; Rambo 4; perfectibility of Samsara; New German Medicine; the odor of virtue; Carmelite contemplatives and God; Jung’s aversion for nation states; Buddhism on cryptocurrencies; how Burma avoids excess Islam; what Jesus would think of Buddha; Mormonism; recording insecurity; North Sentinel Island; creating a meditation technique; different techniques in different yogic systems; interpretation of visions; contemplating the present moment; Sigālovāda Sutta; AI translating Pali texts; fools and alcohol; and hitting a wall in one’s practice.

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