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Ask a Monk (Part 1) — 300 episodes

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1

Power of Protective Chanting

2

Meditating in Public

3

Judging With Wisdom

4

Social Justice

5

Greeting a Monk

6

Curing Phobia

7

Meditation Progress

8

The Mind and Rebirth

9

The Evolution of Meditation

10

Mindfulness And Noting

11

Finding Your Own Teacher

12

What's So Special About Buddhism?

13

Alternate Paths To Enlightenment

14

Overdosing on Study

15

Practicing with Other Groups

16

Learning From Other Monasteries

17

Interview With A Meditator (Sumedha)

18

Bhikkhuni Dress Code

19

Experimental Meditation Techniques

20

Do Arahants Experience Extreme Suffering?

21

Cultivating Anatta

22

Physical Disabilities

23

What Goes From Life To Life?

24

Partiality to Solitude

25

Role Of Lay Buddhists

26

Worldly Motivation

27

Pali And Buddhism Courses

28

When Noting Drops Off

29

Maintaining Peaceful Relationships With Non-Meditators

30

Staying Calm, Reoccuring Dreams

31

Noting Outside of Meditation

32

Beauty

33

Bringing Up the Past

34

Equanimity

35

Buddhists Who Don't Follow Buddhism

36

What If Everyone Was Buddhist?

37

Religious Tolerance

38

Pushing One's Limits

39

Age Limit For Ordination

40

How Frequent Should Noting Be?

41

Undeserved Anger

42

Interview With A Meditator

43

Stream Enterer

44

Interest In Monastic Life

45

Wanting to Be Free

46

Living a More Buddhist Life

47

Meditating With Earplugs

48

Fleeting Thoughts

49

Coping With Dying

50

Doing Good Deeds Unwillingly

51

Writing A Book

52

What the Buddha Taught

53

What is Depression?

54

Guided Internet Retreat

55

Teaching Buddhism as Lay People

56

Life WIthout Suffering

57

Reasons For Ordaining

58

Role of Freedom and Creativity in Enlightenment

59

Intellectual Knowledge of Insight Knowledge

60

Moderized Buddhist Translations

61

Lay Practice of Generosity and Renunciation

62

Contradictions in Monastic Practice

63

Dealing With Anger in Meditation

64

Arahants and Buddhas

65

Committing to a Tradition

66

The Buddha's Nibbana

67

Thoughts Against Others

68

Answering Questions from Family Members

69

Paranoia about Rules and Precepts

70

Keeping Mindful During the Day

71

Are Arahants Free from Karma?

72

Noting in Meditation

73

What Happens at Nibbana?

74

Where Experience Continues After Death

75

When Pain Becomes Unbearable

76

Personal Interpretations Vs. Orthodox Buddhism

77

Existence of Matter

78

An Ideal Buddhist Society

79

Health Benefits of Meditation

80

Psychedelic Drugs

81

Frustration With Inanimate Objects

82

On The Right Track

83

Knowledge of Samatha Jhanas

84

Overcoming Fear of Ordaining

85

Is Cessation An Experience?

86

Wholesome and Unwholesome States in Practice

87

Persistent Stressful Phenomena

88

Proper Noting Procedure

89

The Ten Imperfections of Insight (Vipassana Upakilesa)

90

Sustaining Enlightenment

91

Physics and Buddhism

92

Doubt About Becoming a Monk

93

Meditation Course Curriculum

94

Mindfulness of Whatever Arises

95

Born to Be Good

96

How To Form Opinions If You're Just Mindful?

97

Eating One Meal A Day

98

Eating and the Middle Way

99

Proper Noting in Meditation

100

Barriers to Meditation Progress

101

Working With Difficult People

102

Why Walking Meditation Comes First

103

Helping Others

104

Avoiding Delusion

105

Does Meditation Make One Anti-Social?

106

Meditating During Difficult Times

107

Brainwashing

108

Meditating During Hard Times

109

Difficulty for Women Monastics

110

Moving During Meditation

111

Focusing on the Abdomen

112

Are Monk Precepts Binding?

113

Right Concentration as the Jhanas

114

Monk Radio Introductions

115

Doubt About Karma

116

Are the Mind and Brain Different?

117

Fear and Illusion

118

Does Meditation Repress Emotions?

119

Do Opposites Create Each Other?

120

Equanimity of a Buffalo

121

Modern Education

122

Morality and Meditation

123

Lust

124

Fifth Precept (Drugs and Alcohol)

125

Drinking Coffee

126

True Refuge

127

Magical Powers

128

Is Extended Meditation Physicially Dangerous?

129

Helping Others Prepare for Death

130

Do Enlightened Beings Feel Pain?

131

Relationships and Letting Go

132

Lying to Save a Life?

133

How to avoid nihilism?

134

The Truth of the Tipitaka

135

Meditating 24/7?

136

Noting Thinking

137

Difficult Family Members

138

When You are No Longer a Beginner

139

Sitting With Eyes Opened

140

Giving Up The Mantra

141

Astral Projection

142

Should You Meditate When You Are Tired?

143

Scheduling Meditation

144

Meditating Lying Down

145

Study of the Dhamma Vs. Practice

146

Realizing Impermance, Suffering, Non-self

147

Teaching Meditation to Children

148

Why People Think Buddhists Worship Idols

149

Remembering Past Lives

150

To Be Or Not To Be

151

Joining the Military

152

What did you gain from meditation?

153

Ajaan Tong

154

Dealing with Missionaries

155

Science Vs. Religion

156

Dealing with Theists

157

Wisdom

158

Nightmares

159

Right Concentration

160

Social Learning

161

Mindfulness of Breathing

162

Good Reason to Ordain

163

Mindful Enough

164

Nama and Rupa

165

Esoteric Theravada Buddhism

166

Samatha Jhana, Vipassana Jhana

167

Dealing With People

168

Life Partners

169

Strange Experiences

170

How to Stay on the Middle Way?

171

How to Balance the Faculties?

172

Sexual Misconduct Part 2 of 2

173

Sexual Misconduct Part 1 of 2

174

Why the Abdomen?

175

Karma in a Holocaust

176

Euthanasia

177

Physical Exercise

178

Dealing With Pain and Using Suffering as a Vehicle for Enlightenment

179

What Do Buddhists Do When Someone Dies?

180

Abstaning from Alcohol

181

Experience of Reality

182

Dealing With Pests

183

Assisting Terminally Ill or Hospice Care Patients

184

Should Addicts Meditate?

185

Importance of Dreams

186

Mark Zuckerberg, Vegetarianism and Killing

187

Stephen Hawking, Death, Rebirth and Nirvana

188

Partner's Resistance To Meditation

189

Nirvana from Samsara, Selfishness from Benefit, and Good Questions from Bad

190

Mind in the Stomach and Technique of Breathing

191

Is There a Purpose In Life?

192

Is Enlightenment Within Us All?

193

Problems Sitting Still

194

The Tipitaka

195

Strong Attachments

196

Intelligence, Wisdom, and Stupidity

197

Learning From Mistakes

198

Buddhist Holidays

199

Longings for Life Before Meditation

200

Apologizing

201

Fear of Reality

202

Giving Up Pleasure

203

Meditation Schedule

204

Mindful Yoga

205

Revenge

206

Helping Yourself vs. Helping the World

207

Importance of Past Lives

208

Technology Vs. Tribal Society

209

Nirvana and Karma

210

Falling Asleep While Meditating

211

Recommended Reading

212

Monk Names

213

Pornography and Masturbation (and Addiction in General)

214

Envy and Competition

215

Choosing A Path

216

Divorce

217

Choosing Paths

218

What the Buddha Didn't Teach

219

Anapanasati (Breath Meditation)

220

Dedication, Faith and Vows

221

Bodhi Tree, Monk Food, Anger and Smoking

222

Understanding the Mind

223

Compassion vs. Pity

224

Locating People in Their Next Life

225

Samatha and Vipassana

226

Selfishness and Goodness

227

Sleeping and Bedding for Meditators

228

Addiction to Entertainment

229

Switching Between Objects of Meditation

230

Struggling to Find the Breath

231

Destiny, Fate and Time

232

Taming One's Sexual Desires

233

How I Became a Buddhist Monk

234

Healing and Other Types of Meditation (and some news)

235

Scheduling Meditation

236

Emptiness

237

Self-Consciousness and Courage

238

Conceptual Truth vs. Ultimate Truth

239

Environmental Distractions

240

Learning Buddhism From Books and the Internet

241

Lotus Position and Stability

242

Persistent Bothersome Phenomena

243

Buddhist Business Model

244

Daydreams - Immaterial Enjoyment

245

Stages of Insight and the Sotapanna

246

Proactive (Engaged) Buddhism

247

Frustration and the Restless Mind

248

Standing Meditation

249

If We Are All One, What Reincarnates?

250

Sensuality or Meditation

251

Karma and Reincarnation

252

Scarcity and Abundance

253

Pain

254

Book Learning

255

Sublime Abidings

256

Heaven

257

Meditation Aids

258

Problems for Monks and Lay People

259

Purpose

260

Children

261

Catching Distractions

262

How To Ordain As A Monk

263

God and Prayer

264

Value of Jhana

265

Correct Observation of Thoughts

266

Ask A Monk

267

Meditating on Drugs

268

Is Ignorance Bliss?

269

Celibacy Revisited

270

Uposatha Observance

271

Meditation and Problem Solving

272

"That Place Inside" and Issues from Childhood

273

Drug and Alcohol Addiction

274

Other Useful Meditation Practices

275

Monastery Etiquette

276

On The Monk's Life

277

Meaning of "Mindfulness" and "Clear Thought"

278

Thoughts on Outer Space

279

Faith and Understanding

280

Community, Loneliness and Productivity

281

Relationships

282

Monks and Healthcare

283

Celibacy

284

Food

285

Conflict with Society

286

Controlling Thoughts and the Breath

287

Becoming Buddhist and Being a Monk

288

Buddhas and Bodhisattvas

289

Choosing a Tradition

290

Conversion and Acceptance

291

Buddhist Funerals and Relating Conversion

292

Criticism and Insults

293

Quietude and Funny Feelings

294

What Should We See?

295

Meditation Progress

296

Meditation and Mental Illness

297

Negative Mind States

298

Women & Monkhood

299

Vipassana Meditation Courses

300

Enlightenment, Monks, Past Lives