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Ask a Monk (Part 1) — 300 episodes
Power of Protective Chanting
Meditating in Public
Judging With Wisdom
Social Justice
Greeting a Monk
Curing Phobia
Meditation Progress
The Mind and Rebirth
The Evolution of Meditation
Mindfulness And Noting
Finding Your Own Teacher
What's So Special About Buddhism?
Alternate Paths To Enlightenment
Overdosing on Study
Practicing with Other Groups
Learning From Other Monasteries
Interview With A Meditator (Sumedha)
Bhikkhuni Dress Code
Experimental Meditation Techniques
Do Arahants Experience Extreme Suffering?
Cultivating Anatta
Physical Disabilities
What Goes From Life To Life?
Partiality to Solitude
Role Of Lay Buddhists
Worldly Motivation
Pali And Buddhism Courses
When Noting Drops Off
Maintaining Peaceful Relationships With Non-Meditators
Staying Calm, Reoccuring Dreams
Noting Outside of Meditation
Beauty
Bringing Up the Past
Equanimity
Buddhists Who Don't Follow Buddhism
What If Everyone Was Buddhist?
Religious Tolerance
Pushing One's Limits
Age Limit For Ordination
How Frequent Should Noting Be?
Undeserved Anger
Interview With A Meditator
Stream Enterer
Interest In Monastic Life
Wanting to Be Free
Living a More Buddhist Life
Meditating With Earplugs
Fleeting Thoughts
Coping With Dying
Doing Good Deeds Unwillingly
Writing A Book
What the Buddha Taught
What is Depression?
Guided Internet Retreat
Teaching Buddhism as Lay People
Life WIthout Suffering
Reasons For Ordaining
Role of Freedom and Creativity in Enlightenment
Intellectual Knowledge of Insight Knowledge
Moderized Buddhist Translations
Lay Practice of Generosity and Renunciation
Contradictions in Monastic Practice
Dealing With Anger in Meditation
Arahants and Buddhas
Committing to a Tradition
The Buddha's Nibbana
Thoughts Against Others
Answering Questions from Family Members
Paranoia about Rules and Precepts
Keeping Mindful During the Day
Are Arahants Free from Karma?
Noting in Meditation
What Happens at Nibbana?
Where Experience Continues After Death
When Pain Becomes Unbearable
Personal Interpretations Vs. Orthodox Buddhism
Existence of Matter
An Ideal Buddhist Society
Health Benefits of Meditation
Psychedelic Drugs
Frustration With Inanimate Objects
On The Right Track
Knowledge of Samatha Jhanas
Overcoming Fear of Ordaining
Is Cessation An Experience?
Wholesome and Unwholesome States in Practice
Persistent Stressful Phenomena
Proper Noting Procedure
The Ten Imperfections of Insight (Vipassana Upakilesa)
Sustaining Enlightenment
Physics and Buddhism
Doubt About Becoming a Monk
Meditation Course Curriculum
Mindfulness of Whatever Arises
Born to Be Good
How To Form Opinions If You're Just Mindful?
Eating One Meal A Day
Eating and the Middle Way
Proper Noting in Meditation
Barriers to Meditation Progress
Working With Difficult People
Why Walking Meditation Comes First
Helping Others
Avoiding Delusion
Does Meditation Make One Anti-Social?
Meditating During Difficult Times
Brainwashing
Meditating During Hard Times
Difficulty for Women Monastics
Moving During Meditation
Focusing on the Abdomen
Are Monk Precepts Binding?
Right Concentration as the Jhanas
Monk Radio Introductions
Doubt About Karma
Are the Mind and Brain Different?
Fear and Illusion
Does Meditation Repress Emotions?
Do Opposites Create Each Other?
Equanimity of a Buffalo
Modern Education
Morality and Meditation
Lust
Fifth Precept (Drugs and Alcohol)
Drinking Coffee
True Refuge
Magical Powers
Is Extended Meditation Physicially Dangerous?
Helping Others Prepare for Death
Do Enlightened Beings Feel Pain?
Relationships and Letting Go
Lying to Save a Life?
How to avoid nihilism?
The Truth of the Tipitaka
Meditating 24/7?
Noting Thinking
Difficult Family Members
When You are No Longer a Beginner
Sitting With Eyes Opened
Giving Up The Mantra
Astral Projection
Should You Meditate When You Are Tired?
Scheduling Meditation
Meditating Lying Down
Study of the Dhamma Vs. Practice
Realizing Impermance, Suffering, Non-self
Teaching Meditation to Children
Why People Think Buddhists Worship Idols
Remembering Past Lives
To Be Or Not To Be
Joining the Military
What did you gain from meditation?
Ajaan Tong
Dealing with Missionaries
Science Vs. Religion
Dealing with Theists
Wisdom
Nightmares
Right Concentration
Social Learning
Mindfulness of Breathing
Good Reason to Ordain
Mindful Enough
Nama and Rupa
Esoteric Theravada Buddhism
Samatha Jhana, Vipassana Jhana
Dealing With People
Life Partners
Strange Experiences
How to Stay on the Middle Way?
How to Balance the Faculties?
Sexual Misconduct Part 2 of 2
Sexual Misconduct Part 1 of 2
Why the Abdomen?
Karma in a Holocaust
Euthanasia
Physical Exercise
Dealing With Pain and Using Suffering as a Vehicle for Enlightenment
What Do Buddhists Do When Someone Dies?
Abstaning from Alcohol
Experience of Reality
Dealing With Pests
Assisting Terminally Ill or Hospice Care Patients
Should Addicts Meditate?
Importance of Dreams
Mark Zuckerberg, Vegetarianism and Killing
Stephen Hawking, Death, Rebirth and Nirvana
Partner's Resistance To Meditation
Nirvana from Samsara, Selfishness from Benefit, and Good Questions from Bad
Mind in the Stomach and Technique of Breathing
Is There a Purpose In Life?
Is Enlightenment Within Us All?
Problems Sitting Still
The Tipitaka
Strong Attachments
Intelligence, Wisdom, and Stupidity
Learning From Mistakes
Buddhist Holidays
Longings for Life Before Meditation
Apologizing
Fear of Reality
Giving Up Pleasure
Meditation Schedule
Mindful Yoga
Revenge
Helping Yourself vs. Helping the World
Importance of Past Lives
Technology Vs. Tribal Society
Nirvana and Karma
Falling Asleep While Meditating
Recommended Reading
Monk Names
Pornography and Masturbation (and Addiction in General)
Envy and Competition
Choosing A Path
Divorce
Choosing Paths
What the Buddha Didn't Teach
Anapanasati (Breath Meditation)
Dedication, Faith and Vows
Bodhi Tree, Monk Food, Anger and Smoking
Understanding the Mind
Compassion vs. Pity
Locating People in Their Next Life
Samatha and Vipassana
Selfishness and Goodness
Sleeping and Bedding for Meditators
Addiction to Entertainment
Switching Between Objects of Meditation
Struggling to Find the Breath
Destiny, Fate and Time
Taming One's Sexual Desires
How I Became a Buddhist Monk
Healing and Other Types of Meditation (and some news)
Scheduling Meditation
Emptiness
Self-Consciousness and Courage
Conceptual Truth vs. Ultimate Truth
Environmental Distractions
Learning Buddhism From Books and the Internet
Lotus Position and Stability
Persistent Bothersome Phenomena
Buddhist Business Model
Daydreams - Immaterial Enjoyment
Stages of Insight and the Sotapanna
Proactive (Engaged) Buddhism
Frustration and the Restless Mind
Standing Meditation
If We Are All One, What Reincarnates?
Sensuality or Meditation
Karma and Reincarnation
Scarcity and Abundance
Pain
Book Learning
Sublime Abidings
Heaven
Meditation Aids
Problems for Monks and Lay People
Purpose
Children
Catching Distractions
How To Ordain As A Monk
God and Prayer
Value of Jhana
Correct Observation of Thoughts
Ask A Monk
Meditating on Drugs
Is Ignorance Bliss?
Celibacy Revisited
Uposatha Observance
Meditation and Problem Solving
"That Place Inside" and Issues from Childhood
Drug and Alcohol Addiction
Other Useful Meditation Practices
Monastery Etiquette
On The Monk's Life
Meaning of "Mindfulness" and "Clear Thought"
Thoughts on Outer Space
Faith and Understanding
Community, Loneliness and Productivity
Relationships
Monks and Healthcare
Celibacy
Food
Conflict with Society
Controlling Thoughts and the Breath
Becoming Buddhist and Being a Monk
Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
Choosing a Tradition
Conversion and Acceptance
Buddhist Funerals and Relating Conversion
Criticism and Insults
Quietude and Funny Feelings
What Should We See?
Meditation Progress
Meditation and Mental Illness
Negative Mind States
Women & Monkhood
Vipassana Meditation Courses
Enlightenment, Monks, Past Lives