Question & Answer #103: from Karma as Will to Monastery Attendants

Questions include: karma as will vs. karma as free will; my favorite Roman emperors; how not to kill your parents; electrocution vs. shark attack; delusional faith; some people being worse than animals; using a Buddhist rosary; attaining enlightenment through hearing Dhamma; fact vs. myth in the texts; how everything can be unsatisfactory; Buddhist weddings; enlightened beings following rules; attending a local vipassana center; omniscience; Fake It Till You Make It; controlling karma; F. Gardner; transgender “ordinations”; meeting saints and sages; Nibbana’s relation to the rest of the universe; mastering the monkey mind; my second favorite religion; born again Christians vs. Buddhist sotapannas; experiences with Islam in Buddhist Burma; righteous wars; Buddhism on God and creation; Otomo and me; why beings in hell do not autoterminate; electors in Montana; the ethics of ignorance and negligence; meditating without a teacher; the ethics of making people feel bad; Hot Coldman; my birthday cake(s); eating once a day; mindfulness in Mahayana; making videos outdoors; psychic powers in Buddhism; Alex Jones; drinking other people’s whiskey; Dhamma as a political stance; political demons; progress and its lack in Dhamma practice; attaining jhana through listening to someone’s voice; the ethics of investing money; shortcomings of McMindfulness; the paranormal in the modern west; compassionate action in Buddhism; strange blessings of Neem Karoli Baba; and how to find monastery attendants.

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