Question & Answer #131: from Volition in Buddhism to the Writings of Carl Jung

Questions include: volition in Buddhism; right practice with wrong view; the nature of mass religion; the I Ching; telling people at work I’m a Buddhist; dependent co-arising; antinatalism and Buddhism; the Beatles; “yogi” in Pali literature; Buddhism for dummies; insurgent groups in Myanmar; hypocritical parents; why Buddhas don’t just disappear; the Buddha’s happiness; doing the impossible; anything liminal; a strange Buddhist prayer; grounds for reality; talking with a Mahayana monk; my metaphysics and schools of Buddhism; Dhamma as a means of increasing self-confidence; attainment of fruition and attainment of cessation; Big Balls; getting tired of Q&As; women not to have sex with; Sanskrit homosexuality; gods seeing us; apples or oranges; awareness of one’s own insanity; ordo amoris; knowledge of Nibbana; enlightened animals; am I a cobra dragon; transfer of the persona; future saints influencing their previous incarnations; gaining and losing jhana; real influence of blessings and curses; in what realm would I want to be reborn; enlightened laypeople; the destination of non-returners; my “archive”; yoga in Buddhism; the Dalai Lama; U. G. Krishnamurti; spiritual music; spiritual places; spiritual animals; hours of meditation as a monk; prolonged silence; and Carl Jung and his writings.

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