Question & Answer #107: from Hindus Avoiding Garlic to Merit on the Path to Enlightenment

Questions include: why Hindus are supposed to avoid onions and garlic; culture shock; questions I have for my viewers; G. C. Pande; books on early Buddhism; Burmese monks friends; Burmese monks who intimidated me; Jesus as a run-of-the-mill gay person; Doubting Thomas; the Tibetan Book of the Dead; my level of advancement; unenlightened beings as insane; South Carolina barbecue; Carolina reapers; ceasing to exist; enlightened beings choosing to remain in Samsara; Father Fish and aquarium-keeping; the Milindapañha; anti Islamic actions; what use planet earth has for humans; ways of escaping the cycle of rebirth; Halloween music; self-starvation; the six personality types in Theravada; Project 2025; why bhikkhus look miserable; on me being a bodhisattva; loving-kindness vs. compassion; how I found books in Burma; and earning merit on the path to enlightenment.

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