Question & Answer #129: from Avoiding Humans to the Beverage of the Day

Questions include: what caused me to avoid humanity; early apophatic Buddhism; Melford Spiro; laypeople experiencing rapture in meditation; experiencing “earth-shattering” bliss; teachers of Neo-Advaita; meeting black monks; which jhanas lead to liberation; depression in heaven; opting out of heaven; sleep paralysis; finding the perfect woman; Tom Campbell; Arthur Blessit; appropriate self-deletion; next sutta video; the parable of the workers in the vineyard; tour of my house; loneliness; suttas on mindfulness; Albert Camus; horizontal meditation; the five remembrances; what I’ve learned from meditation; dealing with inconstancy; the heresy of Ajahn Martin; The Journey to the West; obtrusive joy in breath meditation; a dystopian AI dictatorship; Daniel Ingram; the karma of messing with Arahants; a future toothache; quotes about projection; monks blessing houses and other buildings; Yogacara Buddhism; the fallibility of enlightened beings; rebirth and karma in the earliest Buddhism; The Seventh Seal; Buddhist ethics vs. moral relativism; Dawn of the Dead; the karma of the swine of Gadara; being the last man on earth; my gaming experience; Shantideva; trying to “sleep more comfortably”; Red Pine; true nature; monastic qualities that helped me become a layman; qualities that hindered transition to lay status; and what I am drinking in the video this time.

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