Question & Answer #130: from Non-Material Beings to the Dhammapada Commentary

Questions include: ghosts having senses without material bodies; stubbornly not telling lies; Polish profanity; what mind is; the longest I ever meditated; building the pyramids; militarism; Nietzsche; Kali killing Shiva; nada as inner sound; the Sambhogakāya; enlightenment from reading scripture; friends moving on; being a superhero; fanatical Goenkaism; karma for bad luck, God for good; monetary success; why strive for what is problematical; the criteria for liberation; necessity of dogma; percentages of wheat and chaff in the suttas; identity politics in western Buddhism; Jataka stories; memory; “Under the Silver Lake”; the Bermuda Triangle; Buddhist yogi poets; Theory of Samsara; the Visuddhimagga; and the story of Pointless Potthila.

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