Question & Answer #153+: from Jesus's Brother to the Ethics of Bureaucracy

Questions include: James the Just vs. Paul of Tarsus; Pure Land as exoteric Zen; origins of Pure Land Buddhism; Amitabha’s 35th vow; the three marks of existence; monastic medical bills; my retirement; Burmese Pali examinations; impermanence vs. “state of flux”; Q&A addiction; becoming a Viking; Shwedagon Pagoda; bad taste religious comments; home shrines; arguments against materialism; “no true Scotsman”; otherworldly languages; paccekabuddha vs. bodhisattva; Sangha vs. solitude; the fish pond; the Buddha and mass deportations…and also furthermore as well, capital punishment; materialist morals; SE Asian decency laws; absolutes in Madhyamaka; Vedantist idealism; Buddhism vs. scientific materialism; storm-proofing the fish pond; a Zen monk; karma ending at death; an enlightened minority; deconstruction of a person; prone bhikkhus; Sun Tzu; militaristic language in Buddhist texts; war on defilements; Fake Tig; the disappearing Epstein list; tardigrades; deism; game theory; Indian religion’s effect on the west; modern Indian passivity; gradual or sudden wisdom; profound Hindu texts; normie philosophobia; Ajahn Naeb; Buddhist pilgrimage sites; overcoming biases; the Sea Peoples; mantids; the death of Nyanavira; child marriage; philosophy vs. religion in Buddhism; Epstein again; consciousness after parinibbana; when the spirit first enters the body; meditating facing which direction; and the ethics of ineffective bureaucrats.

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