Question & Answer #148: from Charles Darwin to the Ethics of Reporting Illegal Immigrants

Questions include: why I accept Darwinian evolution; the ethics of “treating” ourselves; nothing happening without sankharas; Pure Land Buddhism dealing with defilements; do I still want Nibbana; laypeople giving each other 5 or 8 precepts; linguistic similarities between English and Pali; ancestor veneration in Theravada; photonic processors; noodle soup; the main reasons why monks disrobe; deepening one’s meditation; deja vu; doppelgangers; mirror reflections; prerequisites for deep meditation; receiving milk in one’s alms bowl; western secular Buddhists who reject fundamental teachings of Buddhism (like enlightenment); why Jain self-torture is wrong; making a deposit at a sperm bank; a plant in the background; is karma and/or mind uncreated; what would the Buddha think; antinatalism; a superficial Vajrayana teaching; dependent origination without a primordial cause; the illusory nature of karma; prophet Jerome Fernando; faith in faith healers; why there are few black Buddhists; Heraclitus; disease and hell realms; looking at women objectively; a Buddhist explanation of intuition; witches in the Pali Canon; overcoming old age, sickness, and death; destruction of craving and enlightenment (which comes first); nembutsu; acceptance of No Self in Buddhist countries; and the ethics of reporting illegal immigrants to immigration authorities.

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