Question & Answer #87: from Traditional Corruption to Becoming a Different Person

Questions include: Is Burmese Buddhism as corrupt as Thai Buddhism; interpreting the purpose of Dhamma; Buddhist hypocrisy; my father’s past lives; overcoming laziness; feeling bad about drinking alcohol; the problematic nature of the word “enlightenment”; can enlightened beings have serious brain malfunctions (like strokes); eating too much; alien bases on the moon; conspicuous consumption; militant Buddhism; very old monks in Burma; what to do if one experiences cessation; sudden death of enlightened laypeople; Christian desert fathers; untranslated suttas; samsara as hell; enlightenment without ordination; the power of chanting; the validity of “general knowledge”; was the Buddha REALLY enlightened; walking meditation; drinking and bathing in pee; guns; preventative medicine (partially censored in the YouTube version); discord initiation; do all unenlightened beings fear death; overcoming ADHD; karmic “cheating”; sīla-samādhi-paññā; intellectual contemplation; what it feels like to be newly ordained; drinking tea; the most venerated human; theism and divine grace; restarting meditation practice; when meditation gets too deep; the ethics of Fight Club; media silence regarding Myanmar; belief in rebirth; and becoming a different person after disrobing.

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