Question & Answer #114: from Offering Food to Monks to Why We Forget Past Lives

Questions include: how to offer food to monks in Thailand; Chinese communism; why old people are bitter and angry; what happened in the 6th century BCE; third jhāna; why some people are so noncommittal; commentarial literature; the Cook Sutta; prayer and mettā directed towards one or multiple beings; meditating on earth element; the validity of Aristotelean logic; repenting of wrong view; objective moral standards; is Mormonism Christian Mahayana; Jesus as a bodhisattva; Prince Myshkin; Nikola Tesla; not worrying about authentic teachings of Buddha; the Buddha’s initial reluctance to teach; ecclesiastical precincts; The Power of Now; enlightened beings with bad past karma; levitating; Neem Karoli Baba; monks exercising; subconscious telepathy; “the utterance of another”; Confederate iconography in the American south; Sam Shamoun; the value of a university education in 2024; fakeness and Theravada; comparing oneself to others; The Hum; why atheists are bitter and angry; Ramana Maharshi; inaction vs. non-action; answering a dragon; and why memories are lost at death.

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