Question & Answer #91: from Problematic Enlightenment to Sampling Chants for Music

Questions include: why enlightenment may not mean anything in a samsaric context; my preferred ancient school of Buddhism; the most profound thing I’ve ever encountered; the death of Maha Kassapa; sila-samadhi-pañña vs. dana-sila-bhavana; will I be reborn in samsara; my favorite biography of a monk; soup; the most true version of a person; the Five Solas in Christian philosophy; the ethics of not stomping on baby birds; Eckhart Tolle; what became of the Dharmaguptika school of Buddhism; the Buddhist view of mind and body; troubles with sending metta; karma and probability; Buddhism and the Opium Wars; the most unexpectedly dangerous animal in Burma; racial karma; magic in the modern world; nimitta in meditation; equanimity towards the decline of civilization; hell realms; the best Buddhist teachers (on videos and podcasts); Dipa Ma; the experience of tiredness; memory in an Idealist universe; the Principle of Subjective Equilibrium; remembering past lives as an animal; “liberation through not clinging”; an “enlightenment experience”; the ethics of fidgeting; Buddha vs. god; pronunciation of Pali; and sampling monk chanting for a music recording.

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