Question & Answer #90: from the Is/Ought Problem to Stinky People on Trains

Questions include: approaching the is/ought problem; the value of sending metta; why western monks tend to be intellectuals; how unintelligent monks fit in; can enlightened people be married; the Dalai Lama and his tongue; the karma of translating Buddhist texts; trying to be spiritual while addicted to vice; practicing with psychological handicaps; cannabis and samadhi; enlightenment in ancient India; wandering alone as a monk in modern times; violent bonobos; the balance of positive and negative; coming and going in Buddhist texts; the universal hologram; the Ra material; matter as frozen light; Hermann Hesse; attaining jhana; must Buddhists believe in reincarnation; craving enlightenment; the miracle of having been born; breaking rules that are ethically neutral; the patimokkha; eating at the “right time”; Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War; Nirvana killing the daydream; Daniel Ingram; killing bugs vs. killing human children in war; slapping someone as a metaphor for Nirvana; karma-induced birth defects; why the Burmese dislike Indians; piti and sukha; viriya vs. adhitthana; meat puppets with a spirit; the ethics of liking women; understanding karmic fruition; meditative hypersensitivity; the point of Dhamma practice; can unordained people be enlightened; a meditation on harmony; Thai Ajahns and the knowing mind; the delusion of belief; and stinky people on trains.

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