Question & Answer #138: from the Benefits of Walking Barefoot to the Idea of Pre-Birth Contracts

Questions include: positive effects of going barefoot; bare foot infections; keeping just one species of fish; Buddhists believing in soul; if I could keep only one book; medicinal cannabis; right livelihood; homosexuality; humans and animals in the same world; kasina meditation; Japanese prisons; ariyas reborn into formless realms; equanimity as a way out of hell; discomfort and karma; hypnosis; the “jhana is necessary for enlightenment” theory; the karma of babies who die when still babies; my mental states after disrobing; ordination or death after enlightenment; an enlightened recluse living on a pension; preferred sports; people on the list; my favorite sutta from the Samyutta Nikaya; Neoplatonism; Tarkovsky’s Stalker; “Roadside Picnic”; desiring to end desire; the Buddha’s insight into No Self (before or after his enlightenment); the nature of Samsara; Hotei; Hesse’s Siddhartha; joining the Discord server; Oprah and the subconscious mind; overcoming fear; the f sound in Indo-European languages; forklifts and ferries; aquarium news; the insanity of the left; dreams; the Spiritual Right; intolerance of “Nazism” on Discord; and more on pre-life contracts.

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