Question & Answer #87: from Traditional Corruption to Becoming a Different Person

Well by golly, I was asked a question about preventative medicine and carelessly uttered a taboo word SEVERAL TIMES, a word which apparently is flagged by Google's AI automatically and would potentially cause problems. SO, I endeavored to edit the taboo word from this video. For the unexpurgated version, please refer to Rumble or Bitchute. Thank you for your patience. Also, YouTube is STILL not allowing me to post links, because I discussed the aforementioned taboo subject a few months ago; so for a list of my URL links please refer, likewise, to Rumble or Bitchute, which are much more tolerant of free thought and expression than this travesty of a platform.

Questions include: Is Burmese Buddhism as corrupt as Thai Buddhism; interpreting the purpose of Dhamma; Buddhist hypocrisy; my father’s past lives; overcoming laziness; feeling bad about drinking alcohol; the problematic nature of the word “enlightenment”; can enlightened beings have serious brain malfunctions (like strokes); eating too much; alien bases on the moon; conspicuous consumption; militant Buddhism; very old monks in Burma; what to do if one experiences cessation; sudden death of enlightened laypeople; Christian desert fathers; untranslated suttas; samsara as hell; enlightenment without ordination; the power of chanting; the validity of “general knowledge”; was the Buddha REALLY enlightened; walking meditation; drinking and bathing in pee; guns; preventative medicine (partially censored in the YouTube version); discord initiation; do all unenlightened beings fear death; overcoming ADHD; karmic “cheating”; sīla-samādhi-paññā; intellectual contemplation; what it feels like to be newly ordained; drinking tea; the most venerated human; theism and divine grace; restarting meditation practice; when meditation gets too deep; the ethics of Fight Club; media silence regarding Myanmar; belief in rebirth; and becoming a different person after disrobing.