Question & Answer #133: from the Point of Bodhisattva Vows to Meditating on 32 Parts of the Body

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Questions include: the point of bodhisattva vows; monasteries turning into liberal social clubs; a confusing sutta; when I have a low day; why Moggallana allowed himself to be killed; Mara’s heaven realm in the suttas; experience as a source of true knowledge; Buddhist subjective morality; deriving IS from OUGHT; reacting to evil; Robert Anton Wilson; the karmic logic of rebirth; reverence for ancestors in Buddhist Asia; Dhamma audiobooks with AI narrators; the purpose of globalists disseminating “woke” ideology; dealing with angst; my European ancestry; autotermination in early Buddhism; emotionally overpowering dreams; distraction as the natural state of mind; mindfulness before Buddhism; squeaking into heaven; hell as a place of punishment; Myanmar on the “do not travel” list; why ChatGTP can’t become enlightened; considering autotermination; Samsara as redundancy; the ethics of a monk reporting a theft; Sariputta’s enlightenment; the ethics of overcoming addiction; Buddhism and Stoicism; predestination in Dhamma; the naturalistic fallacy; chronic pain; my new job; Plato’s cave; serious lay practice; Pali and Prakrit; the legend of Buddha’s path to enlightenment; popular games in Burma; occult forces; the Thai doctrine of eternal mind; shaving my head with a straight razor; monks using straight razors; Vaishnavite vs. Shaivite; Yukio Mishima; the most important Buddhist philosopher alive today; and meditation on the 32 parts of the body.

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