Question & Answer #102: from Scientific Realism to Dealing with Lust

Questions include: what I have learned from these videos; female Based Buddhists; limits of meditation; importance of meditation; the jhanas; Ajahn Mettiko; Oera Linda; the uncarved block of marble; master morality vs. slave morality; my profoundest meditative experiences; dreams; the middle path; how venerable am I; negative karma; is Trump a bodhisattva; mindfulness of breathing; “vipassana”; Burmese charlatan monks; transgender nuns; Burmese weather; Dharmic snobbery; nature vs. nurture; Dostoevsky; cults; Dhamma vs. the American dream; older men with younger women; Buddhism on Reddit; Hermann Hesse; my brother; wearing only a fez; Ted Cruz; depression caused by karma; the practice of conscious dying; Keiji Nishitani; Trump as a force for Good; understanding the block of stone simile; and what to do with an erection.

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ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1
3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860