Question & Answer #104: from Renunciation in the West to Misused Compassion

Questions include: leaving the home life in the USA; anti-vagrancy laws; Coleman Hughes; strengths and weaknesses of Buddhist traditionalism; restraint of the sense faculties; devotionalism towards the Bodhisatta Gotama; the ethics of disparaging normies; maintaining samadhi in daily life; pre-Freudian psychology; the subconscious in very early Buddhism; the Buddha vs. Freud or Jung; the Buddha’s current whereabouts; my favorite fictional Buddhist; strengths and weaknesses of Vipassana practice; western Vipassana vs. eastern Vipassana; can American Buddhism survive the passing away of the boomers; consciousness as self; Gandhi and occultism; bad karma with no self; nonhuman past life regressions; Jainism in the early Buddhist texts; the 969 movement; feet going numb during meditation; the necessity of monks being “intact” biological males; What Did the Buddha Really Teach?; Styxhexenhammer; Rageaholic; racist Theravada monks; moving on to the next question; the Handful of Leaves; mental vs. physical Dharma practice; books against scientism; associating with people who believe very wrong things; Burmese monks who support the military dictatorship; are the conditioned and unconditioned parallel; cessation as a metaphysical state; the ethics of using tobacco, caffeine, and sugar; monks staying up all night (meditating); Thai traditions accepting Burmese traditions; dealing with angry thoughts; preferring solitude; extremely strong whiskey; cigarettes; lying to children about Santa Claus; Lord of the Rings; piti in meditation; ignorance in a time of Dharma; the brain; decision-making with no self; and the Buddha on misplaced compassion.

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