Question & Answer #141: from Metallica Lyrics to the Creators of Social Norms

Questions include: the lyrics of a Metallica song; Tig; having a foolish father; YouTube meditation videos; starting a fish pond; monks making and collecting doodles; monsters in Buddhist countries; my greatest encounter with evil; monks having to teach Dhamma; a monk knowing when he’s ready to teach; monks owning nail clippers; the karmic benefits of teaching Dhamma; ivermectin in Myanmar; people from Buddhist countries looking down on western Buddhists; my meditation practices as a monk; meditation for Zen practitioners; similes in Pali suttas; bhikkhus talking about Zen patriarchs; forklift operations; choosing a town to live in; recommending Pali texts to beginners in Buddhism; logjams in the mind stream; humble Zen-like skepticism; Buddhist art; unexplored frontiers in this world; Oswald Spengler; is decadence irreversible; Viktor Frankl; Dostoevsky’s House of the Dead; parallels between today and the events leading to WW2; adoration in Theravada; “mindful mindlessness”; requiring one’s parents’ permission to be ordained; non-Dharmic friendships and relationships; morality and observances in the Atthakavagga; the reality or unreality of gender; Ram Dass vs. Jordan Peterson; cannabis causing anxiety; and people’s opinion on the people who generate social norms.

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