Question & Answer #94: from Astonished Arahants to Buddhist Minimalism

Questions include: on whether enlightened beings can be surprised; why orthodox Buddhism rejected No View; whether enlightened beings think dualistically; my worst time in Burma; on whether the Buddha died of poisoning; the difference between men and women in a world with no pure objectivity; love and free will; love as a question for society; saying “I love you” in Burmese; Ajahn Paññavaddho; belief in small-g gods; MN24; the karma of being a white westerner; why Mahayana texts are easier to read; the four stages of Buddhist sainthood; my favorite tea; creativity vs. sanity; breath control; people too poor to become monks; a strange visualization; having sex with an altar in the bedroom; bodhisatt(v)as in Theravada; mythological Buddhas; communication with the dead; the Akashic Records; Edgar Cayce; the ethics of donating tobacco; Buckminster Fuller; the dark night of the soul; does life really have meaning; the internet’s effect on Dharma; teaching meditation to the very elderly; creation gods; the ethics of divorce; the blissful nature of consciousness; the ethics of playing the piano; teaching Dharma to my parents; and Buddhist minimalism.

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