Question & Answer #159: from Villagers vs. City People to the Pernicious Nature of Ego

Questions include: are villagers more moral than city people; taxonomic categories; public nudity; chakras; meditation and right view; the origin and nature of spontaneous mental imagery; how enlightenment stops rebirth; the notion of karma as a means of controlling the populace; the meaning of “liberty”; my parents’ Christian upbringing; a transsexual monk; the purpose of reason; a postcard; Jainism; Shri Shankara; Mahamudra; being sucked into Samsara; breeding poison dart frogs; Buddhist tattoos; Gnostics; Sufis; non-Buddhist mysticism; pure mind storing memories; the purpose of past life memories; and reasons why Ego is pernicious.

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