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Question & Answer #111: from Spanking the Puppy to the Cessation of Perception and Feeling
Questions include: monks who masturbate without confessing it; monks not making confession because the live in solitude; Moby Dick; desert island books; could someone write a book like Moby Dick today; becoming a wanderer a few years after being ordained; fever hallucinations; hallucinations causing insight; fear of being “mogged”; the next sutta discussion video; tips on self-discipline; how can a delusional mind verify Dhamma; Right View resulting from group spirit; the enlightened being after death; tanha and chanda; Buddhas experiencing chanda; paccekabuddhas; the “fake shooting of Donald Trump”; the ethics of depriving a hunter of his prey; enlightenment neutralizing Love and Beauty; the philosophy of Conan the Barbarian; pilgrimage to Bodh Gaya; leftist bias on Wikipedia; justified wars; is Samsara itself not impermanent; using YouTube posts for quizzes on Buddhism; Thai Buddhism and consciousness as self; perverts starting religious movements; atheists like Richard Dawkins; embarrassment over public farts; mental crises on the path to Nirvana; how am I doing; being ordained without parental consent; a midlife crisis; rebirth without a self; anxiety upon moving from one place to another; the official narrative on WW2; wanting to take refuge in another being; and the nature of the cessation of feeling and perception.
On NIN “Every Day Is Exactly the Same”: Reminds me very much of Pink Floyd’s *The Wall*, a dark song about giving up, about alienation, maladjustment, and depression, and possibly desire to “autoterminate.” Not much wisdom in it.
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