Question & Answer #113: from the Validity of Cultures to Re-Explaining Dependent Co-Arising

Questions include: whether cultures are equally valid; how Buddhist cultures compare to non-Buddhist ones; praying in Buddhism; synchronicity; “first there is mother and father”; Buddhists who hunt; Mahayana Buddhist untruths; Buddha lands; rebirth with no self; ending rebirth with no self; the nature of enlightenment; the Buddha seeing into the future; human bias; conventional vs. ultimate reality; young people rejecting enlightenment; meeting Mormon missionaries; my main guru; a Korean monk DJ; the pandura debate; consistent meditation practice; casual drinking of alcohol; Buddhist/Taoist syncretism; paññā, viññāna, and saññā; ordaining monks with skin diseases; a Buddhist serenity prayer; western philosophy through a Buddhist lens; Descartes’ cogito; Chinese monks and the Communist Party; “up-speak”; morality and observances as a fetter; the subconscious mind; the final illness of Ajahn Chah; psychedelic drugs and brain chemistry; the Anapanasati Sutta; the meaning of jhāna; deep meditation vs. psychedelics; Eastern Orthodox Christianity; and once again an explanation of dependent co-arising.

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