Question & Answer #156: from Romantic Attraction to the Best Pali Translations

Questions include: why men are attracted to certain types; Philippians 4:12-13 (for real this time); the monastic discipline of streaming basketball games; the ethics of squeezing pimples; a quote from the Tao Te Ching; spiritual practice post-monkhood; if it was impossible to escape birth and death; Evola vs. Guenon; the ushnisha; attempted descriptions of ultimate reality; holiness vs. wisdom; trying to prove reincarnation to an atheist; having 2000 subs; fake Tig; why not live in Thailand or Sri Lanka; how I am; recent musical tastes; bodhi-citta; monks craving for foods; monk beds; the purpose of asceticism; antinatalism in Ecclesiastes; and the best Pali translations.

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