Question & Answer #108: from Eating Meat to Washing an Alms Bowl

Questions include: the ethics of eating meat; Caroline Rhys Davids; ignorance occurring before consciousness; the shining mind; Bhikkhu Nyanananda; semen retention; Dogen and Soto Zen; monks trading in money; sentient aquarium creatures; leftist Buddhists in the west; heaven as an obstacle to enlightenment; what if Buddha never existed; Alan Watts; grunge rock; Darwinian evolution; the karma of crucifying Jesus; monks indirectly handling money; monks and nuns traveling together; Diogenes the Cynic; “assigned” gender; TikTok vs. meditation; the situation in Sri Lanka; Taylor Swift; the reality of time and matter; Bhikkhu Bodhi; no self vs. accommodating oneself; Christians vs. Yoga; cultivating a Zen-like trance; New Age vs. Buddhism; our own volition sending us to hell; renouncing the world ASAP; paying money to renounce the world; questions I get tired of; questions I ignore; and how I washed my bowl while living in caves.

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