Question & Answer #143: from "Incalculable Eons" to the Best Retreat Center for Beginners

Questions include: incalculable eons (vs. infinite time) regarding rebirth; structures under the pyramids; the Bass Pro Shop pyramid; masters of ad hominem attacks; proving ultimate value judgements; the Fukushima meltdown; science fiction in movies and on TV; Buddhist science fiction; the relativity of virtually real beings; the ethics of lucid dreaming; dreams becoming more “real” than waking life; my father’s past life regressions; the origin of suffering; the ethics of pirating media from the internet; nominalism and race; nominalism and Aristotles’s laws of thought; conscious AI; different kinds of past life memories; cessation of consciousness in enlightened beings; vengeance; celibacy in laypeople; monks attending weddings; the Buddha’s son; “noticing” Hebrews; multiple karmic trends; the spiritual ignorance of doctors and morticians; desire causing individual existence; my attitude to doing these Q&As; feeling like a guru; when will these Q&As end; people with wrong view attenuating ill will and sensuality; weakened craving after being a monk; the odds of enlightenment; lack of realization in people exposed to death; paccekabuddhas; the best and worst countries for ordination; why leftists can’t think straight; A Guided Tour of Hell; watching the mind vs. watching the breath; the ethics of fantasizing; texts better than the Dhammapada; and the best retreat center for beginners in America.

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