Question & Answer #89: from Guiding Your Family towards Virtue to Killing to Protect a Loved One

Questions include: encouraging one’s family to follow moral precepts; the level of understanding required to become a monk; the Four Noble Truths in relation to greed, hate, and delusion; positive and negative balancing out on the Path; formulas of verbal homage; monks building their own huts; origin of the pure mind; conditioned vs. unconditioned; cultivating intuition by reading poetry; Prajñaparamita; Burmese tea; Proto-Indo-European Dharma; “trippy” meditation; faith in Buddhism; the 13 dhutangas; biological evolution of the human race; when meditation goes wrong; going from consumer culture to intensive practice; anger in meditation; the Buddha and LGBTQ; is Pope Kevin intelligent; how one knows if one is a lower-level Ariya; how to stop drinking; enlightened sensation vs. unenlightened sensation; why non-attachment is the highest goal; seeing and eradicating one’s main spiritual impediment; doubt leading to spiritual crisis; ghosts; Zoroastrianism; the evolutionary biological reason for the ability to meditate; girls whose fiancé wants to go to a monastery; dharma and duty; and killing to protect one’s loved ones.

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