PoliticallyIncorrectDharma

Numa, Stevens, and I discuss the strange situation that young women in the west have found for themselves. This discussion was inspired by several men on my Discord server describing the extreme difficulty they have found in finding a "nice girl to settle down with." Numa's blog: https://causticus.dreamwidth.org/ Stevens's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO6z9KFlXV9gbACB2_julgw My URL links: https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Questions include: on whether enlightened beings can be surprised; why orthodox Buddhism rejected No View; whether enlightened beings think dualistically; my worst time in Burma; on whether the Buddha died of poisoning; the difference between men and women in a world with no pure objectivity; love and free will; love as a question for society; saying “I love you” in Burmese; Ajahn Paññavaddho; belief in small-g gods; MN24; the karma of being a white westerner; why Mahayana texts are easier to read; the four stages of Buddhist sainthood; my favorite tea; creativity vs. sanity; breath control; people too poor to become monks; a strange visualization; having sex with an altar in the bedroom; bodhisatt(v)as in Theravada; mythological Buddhas; communication with the dead; the Akashic Records; Edgar Cayce; the ethics of donating tobacco; Buckminster Fuller; the dark night of the soul; does life really have meaning; the internet’s effect on Dharma; teaching meditation to the very elderly; creation gods; the ethics of divorce; the blissful nature of consciousness; the ethics of playing the piano; teaching Dharma to my parents; and Buddhist minimalism. URL Links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Questions include: good karma preventing icky diseases; the karma of insects and humans; learning Burmese; supporting strict monks (and not supporting lax ones); five contemplations; “Yogi Hitler”; channel membership; sharing merit; the faculty of imagination; Actual Freedom; the ethics of blinding criminals instead of executing them; subjective vs. objective; learning Pali; meditation guidance in the Anguttara Nikaya; my favorite Mahayana texts; samatha vs. “vipassana”; the ethics of voting for the lesser evil; attaññū and kālaññū; are monks allowed to vote; would Buddha allow monks to use social media; Indian Neo-Buddhism; western occultist virtues and Dharma; evidence for the paranormal; the Matrix; symbolic wisdom in movies; spiritual science fiction; my favorite story about the Buddha; Brahmayana; conscience in Buddhism; Free Will; monastic discipline; Burmese music; and fourth jhana. URL Links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Questions include: my preference of Schopenhauer or Nietzsche; the kingdom of Kosala; mythological Buddhas; translating the Tipitaka into Latin or Greek; self-immolation as a new western fad; regret as an unskillful mental state; the significance of the number 84000 in Indian Buddhism; Christian Platonism; Marvel superheroes as pagan gods; daydreaming; the religion of Malcolm X; possible contradictions of the “five element model of Buddhism”; whether becoming a secular king is allowed by Buddhist monastic discipline; translations of the word “dukkha”; fapping novices; Buddhist logic in the Atthakavagga; memory as viewing the past; samsaric context; my favorite wisdom literature; advice for a meditation retreat; changes in my physiology since leaving the monkhood; understanding Mara, the Buddhist devil; killing bugs; are insects conscious; vipassana and/or jhana; my favorite Buddhist literature; and the validity of the left-hand path. URL Links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Questions include: why enlightenment may not mean anything in a samsaric context; my preferred ancient school of Buddhism; the most profound thing I’ve ever encountered; the death of Maha Kassapa; sila-samadhi-pañña vs. dana-sila-bhavana; will I be reborn in samsara; my favorite biography of a monk; soup; the most true version of a person; the Five Solas in Christian philosophy; the ethics of not stomping on baby birds; Eckhart Tolle; what became of the Dharmaguptika school of Buddhism; the Buddhist view of mind and body; troubles with sending metta; karma and probability; Buddhism and the Opium Wars; the most unexpectedly dangerous animal in Burma; racial karma; magic in the modern world; nimitta in meditation; equanimity towards the decline of civilization; hell realms; the best Buddhist teachers (on videos and podcasts); Dipa Ma; the experience of tiredness; memory in an Idealist universe; the Principle of Subjective Equilibrium; remembering past lives as an animal; “liberation through not clinging”; an “enlightenment experience”; the ethics of fidgeting; Buddha vs. god; pronunciation of Pali; and sampling monk chanting for a music recording. URL Links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

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. URL Links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Brian and I discuss a sutta of the Anguttara Nikaya (A3:67), in which the Buddha gives instructions on how to disagree in a discussion, and who is qualified to participate in such discussions and who is not. Brian's main Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/mZgcRhEPlyHG/ My URL links: https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 Brian Ruhe’s Buddhist Monk Truthers playlist on Bitchute, which contains the most complete collection of our talks: https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/2H83eFTsfBMQ/

Questions include: encouraging one’s family to follow moral precepts; the level of understanding required to become a monk; the Four Noble Truths in relation to greed, hate, and delusion; positive and negative balancing out on the Path; formulas of verbal homage; monks building their own huts; origin of the pure mind; conditioned vs. unconditioned; cultivating intuition by reading poetry; Prajñaparamita; Burmese tea; Proto-Indo-European Dharma; “trippy” meditation; faith in Buddhism; the 13 dhutangas; biological evolution of the human race; when meditation goes wrong; going from consumer culture to intensive practice; anger in meditation; the Buddha and LGBTQ; is Pope Kevin intelligent; how one knows if one is a lower-level Ariya; how to stop drinking; enlightened sensation vs. unenlightened sensation; why non-attachment is the highest goal; seeing and eradicating one’s main spiritual impediment; doubt leading to spiritual crisis; ghosts; Zoroastrianism; the evolutionary biological reason for the ability to meditate; girls whose fiancé wants to go to a monastery; dharma and duty; and killing to protect one’s loved ones. URL Links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Brian and I discuss a rather extreme episode of "expansion" or "exaltation" that he went through last March. Those of you who watch his Bitchute channel regularly will know what I'm referring to here. Brian's main Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/mZgcRhEPlyHG/ My URL links: URL Links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Questions include: magical and alchemical sects in Asian Theravada; how enlightened beings know they’re enlightened; when to bail out of Samsara; Maha Ari monks in medieval Burma; becoming an “Ari wizard”; meditating in loud places; Palden Dorje’s 11-month meditation; spiritual effects of fluoridated water; plans for Q&A #100; repentance in Buddhism; Dharma or culture; Albert Camus; supporting sloppy monks; right livelihood for noble disciples; learning Pali and Burmese; treatment of a white monk in Burma; was Gotama a Jain before his enlightenment; the group of six monks; Ajahn Nyanamoli; the scandal of birth; my worst time in Burma; ayahuasca as heart medicine; living in caves; and why some Dharma teachers talk so slowly. URL Links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

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. URL Links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Questions include: conventional truths that are not swept away by the 3 marks of existence; withdrawing from everything with an inherent nature; rewards for translating Buddhist texts; how angry I get; Eckhart Tolle; the Tibetan master Dolpopa; remorse as bad karma; the Mises Institute; doubt about the Buddha’s teaching; benefits for a future life; equality with (non-human) animals; meditation without Right View; how I disrobed; morals vs. rules; the origin and purpose of samsara; pure being vs. pure non-being; Herr Brian; drinking urine; the Niddesa; responding to life-affirming Pagans; enlightened beings committing suicide; karma in Buddhism and Jainism; my travels in India; subhuman degenerates and ordination; helping oneself vs. helping others; Neem Karoli Baba and the taking on of other people’s karma; sleep meditation; Neoplatonism compared with Vedanta; Roman salutes; and why I accept the idea of karma. URL Links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Questions include: a debate about Nibbana; how to unretard self; is taxation theft; consciousness without perception; appropriate speech; how to be less negative and argumentative; the karma of working at a convenience store; Little Buddha in Nepal; gandhabbas; how memory works; cultivating equanimity; making a start in mindfulness; Buddha as an avatar of Vishnu; self-destructive egos; my favorite meditation technique; the Sarvastivada notion that All Exists; speaking to very conservative religious people; being sucked back into western culture after being a monk for so long; better concentration with no or little sleep; latent karma; faith vs. adherence to morality and observances; the deepest form of ignorance; can No Self be deliberately unseen; the liminality of being multicultural; practicing Dhamma in the context of western culture; realizing that “things are not what they appear to be”; Benatar’s asymmetry argument; the Buddha on wage slavery; Woke Buddhists leaving the Sangha; a canonical commentary on monastic discipline; do I seek joy; and must there be a demiurge to perceive the entire cosmos. URL Links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Questions include: a German translator’s interpretation of the fourth precept; when Hindus commit rape; how many Buddha images should be in one house; explaining mudras (hand positions of Buddha images); paranormal investigating; the karma of killing oysters; the Atthakavagga; the simile of the block of marble; Pali language and Nepali language; Taoism; the Mantids; the relevance of dreams; how to be an artist; dreams of being a monk in Burma; archaic Buddhism vs. established tradition; becoming an anagarika; secret societies; atheists, karma, and God; full comprehension of anatta; Burmese cigarettes; Pure Land Buddhism as a kind of Buddhist Protestantism; cessation (of perception and feeling); telling women you’re wiser and better than them; a comprehensive intro to Theravada on YouTube; my father’s “occult” autobiography; Edgar Cayce on past lives; fried chicken; Brahmin Buddhas; Brian Ruhe; humor as a response to suffering; and the ethics of delighting in the morbid and grotesque. URL Links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Questions include: the questionable authenticity of the four stages of Ariyahood; the 8000 Line Prajnaparamita Sutra; the third great Buddhist council; being a standup comic; “good” and “bad” as ethical/philosophical terms; rebirth into AI; Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta; meditation on the loathsomeness of food; disgust as a virtue in Dhamma; antinatalism in Buddhism; the periodic reappearance of Buddha and Dhamma; Right View as “Complete View”; suffering as a karmic result; Abhidhamma and quantum physics; the Root of All Things; monks going potty; premature pregnancies; metta meditation; is Buddhism the only true path; formless consciousness; dealing with ancient Indian mythology in the suttas; remembering past lives; is the eternal Now illusory; the Pali word for ego; why Jainism survived in India (but Buddhism did not); the chronology of Buddha’s discourses; Buddhist self-improvement videos; Zen and Mahayana; perceiving Nibbana; finding an authentic teacher; and the element undergoing rebirth. URL Links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Our good friend Brian has been having a spectacularly rough go lately, so please send metta if you please. This was recorded some weeks ago when he was just at the verge of his misadventures. Anyway, this video is discussing the strange phenomenon of western Buddhists who vehemently, sometimes even angrily, insist that the Buddha taught the existence of a self and even an immortal soul.

Questions include: karma as a mental state with regard to enjoying misconduct; who I voted for in the presidential primary; how long to perfect oneself enough to be a disciple of a Buddha; different kinds of Buddhas; the meaning of Nātaputta; desires to return to the monk life; sage replacements for David Carradine in “Kung Fu”; what does the 2020 election have to do with Buddhism; how to practice mindfulness; videos on the Eightfold Path and meditation; Sarvastivadin Abhidharma; how I translate Pali to English; organic evolution vs. spiritual reincarnation; a video about Mahasi U Pandita; why the Buddha wouldn’t answer certain questions; translating a Pali mantra; the ethics and experience of self-immolation; Scientism as a religion; abandoning “taints”; vindictive patrons on alms round; my favorite great disciple; responsibility for thoughts when there is no self; how I mourned my father’s death; considering people to be complete idiots; and the meaning of Shakymuni. URL Links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Brian and I respond to a talk given by venerable Ajahn Sona of Birken Forest Monastery, in which he discusses relatively new evidence that there were plenty of Greeks and Persians in northern India in the Buddha's time, and that Greeks apparently had a significant influence on the formation of early Buddhism. Brian's main Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/mZgcRhEPlyHG/ My URL links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 Brian Ruhe’s Buddhist Monk Truthers playlist on Bitchute, which contains the most complete collection of our talks: https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/2H83eFTsfBMQ/

Questions include: did Gotama play Kabaddi before his enlightenment; non-Buddhist spiritual traditions; making progress in Dhamma; wisdom and insight; Sanjaya Belatthiputta; can we choose our next rebirth; how to find me on Rumble; people meddling with my mindfulness; criticism against Buddhism; how to get psychic powers; Kwai Chang Cain; when all doubts disappear; health insurance; The Wolf of Wall Street; “the battle for followers” between Theravada and Mahayana; and what happens to people when they die without religion. URL Links https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ primordial website: https://nippapanca.org (now defunct methinks, but will reappear) Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZHAtWjVje/ Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIncorrectDharma YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma Discord server (mainly for traditionalist Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request Twitter: https://twitter.com/PannobhasaSC Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Pannobhasa CashApp: $pannobhasa MY BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Almost immediately after I uploaded this video on YouTube it was taken down and struck because I allegedly violated YT's policy on "medical disinformation." So to hell with YouTube and I begin posting videos here. You can hear my answer on the topic of the ethics involved with certain "vaccines," whereas in a week, when YouTube allows me to upload something again, there will be only the censored version there.

Kathina Ceremony in French Camp, California 2020