Ask a Monk (Part 1)

This is the first part of a collection of answers given by Ven. Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu regarding various questions related to a Buddhist and/or... show more

Episode 1Enlightenment, Monks, Past Lives

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Episode 2Vipassana Meditation Courses

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Episode 3Women & Monkhood

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Episode 4Negative Mind States

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Episode 5Meditation and Mental Illness

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Episode 6Meditation Progress

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Episode 7What Should We See?

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Episode 8Quietude and Funny Feelings

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Episode 9Criticism and Insults

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Episode 10Buddhist Funerals and Relating Conversion

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Episode 11Conversion and Acceptance

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Episode 12Choosing a Tradition

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Episode 13Buddhas and Bodhisattvas

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Episode 14Becoming Buddhist and Being a Monk

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Episode 15Controlling Thoughts and the Breath

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Episode 16Conflict with Society

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Episode 17Food

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Episode 18Celibacy

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Episode 19Monks and Healthcare

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Episode 20Relationships

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Episode 21Community, Loneliness and Productivity

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Episode 22Faith and Understanding

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Episode 23Thoughts on Outer Space

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Episode 24Meaning of "Mindfulness" and "Clear Thought"

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Episode 25On The Monk's Life

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Episode 26Monastery Etiquette

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Episode 27Other Useful Meditation Practices

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Episode 28Drug and Alcohol Addiction

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Episode 29"That Place Inside" and Issues from Childhood

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Episode 30Meditation and Problem Solving

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Episode 31Uposatha Observance

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Episode 32Celibacy Revisited

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Episode 33Is Ignorance Bliss?

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Episode 34Meditating on Drugs

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Episode 35Ask A Monk

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Episode 36Correct Observation of Thoughts

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Episode 37Value of Jhana

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Episode 38God and Prayer

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Episode 39How To Ordain As A Monk

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Episode 40Catching Distractions

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Episode 41Children

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Episode 42Purpose

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Episode 43Problems for Monks and Lay People

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Episode 44Meditation Aids

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Episode 45Heaven

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Episode 46Sublime Abidings

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Episode 47Book Learning

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Episode 48Pain

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Episode 49Scarcity and Abundance

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Episode 50Karma and Reincarnation

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Episode 51Sensuality or Meditation

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Episode 52If We Are All One, What Reincarnates?

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Episode 53Standing Meditation

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Episode 54Frustration and the Restless Mind

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Episode 55Proactive (Engaged) Buddhism

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Episode 56Stages of Insight and the Sotapanna

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Episode 57Daydreams - Immaterial Enjoyment

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Episode 58Buddhist Business Model

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Episode 59Persistent Bothersome Phenomena

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Episode 60Lotus Position and Stability

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Episode 61Learning Buddhism From Books and the Internet

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Episode 62Environmental Distractions

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Episode 63Conceptual Truth vs. Ultimate Truth

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Episode 64Self-Consciousness and Courage

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Episode 65Emptiness

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Episode 66Scheduling Meditation

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Episode 67Healing and Other Types of Meditation (and some news)

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Episode 68How I Became a Buddhist Monk

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Episode 69Taming One's Sexual Desires

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Episode 70Destiny, Fate and Time

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Episode 71Struggling to Find the Breath

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Episode 72Switching Between Objects of Meditation

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Episode 73Addiction to Entertainment

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Episode 74Sleeping and Bedding for Meditators

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Episode 75Selfishness and Goodness

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Episode 76Samatha and Vipassana

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Episode 77Locating People in Their Next Life

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Episode 78Compassion vs. Pity

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Episode 79Understanding the Mind

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Episode 80Bodhi Tree, Monk Food, Anger and Smoking

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Episode 81Dedication, Faith and Vows

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Episode 82Anapanasati (Breath Meditation)

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Episode 83What the Buddha Didn't Teach

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Episode 84Choosing Paths

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Episode 85Divorce

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Episode 86Choosing A Path

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Episode 87Envy and Competition

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Episode 88Pornography and Masturbation (and Addiction in General)

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Episode 89Monk Names

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Episode 90Recommended Reading

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Episode 91Falling Asleep While Meditating

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Episode 92Nirvana and Karma

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Episode 93Technology Vs. Tribal Society

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Episode 94Importance of Past Lives

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Episode 95Helping Yourself vs. Helping the World

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Episode 96Revenge

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Episode 97Mindful Yoga

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Episode 98Meditation Schedule

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Episode 99Giving Up Pleasure

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Episode 100Fear of Reality

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Episode 101Apologizing

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Episode 102Longings for Life Before Meditation

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Episode 103Buddhist Holidays

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Episode 104Learning From Mistakes

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Episode 105Intelligence, Wisdom, and Stupidity

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Episode 106Strong Attachments

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Episode 107The Tipitaka

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Episode 108Problems Sitting Still

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Episode 109Is Enlightenment Within Us All?

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Episode 110Is There a Purpose In Life?

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Episode 111Mind in the Stomach and Technique of Breathing

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Episode 112Nirvana from Samsara, Selfishness from Benefit, and Good Questions from Bad

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Episode 113Partner's Resistance To Meditation

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Episode 114Stephen Hawking, Death, Rebirth and Nirvana

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Episode 115Mark Zuckerberg, Vegetarianism and Killing

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Episode 116Importance of Dreams

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Episode 117Should Addicts Meditate?

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Episode 118Assisting Terminally Ill or Hospice Care Patients

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Episode 119Dealing With Pests

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Episode 120Experience of Reality

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Episode 121Abstaning from Alcohol

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Episode 122What Do Buddhists Do When Someone Dies?

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Episode 123Dealing With Pain and Using Suffering as a Vehicle for Enlightenment

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Episode 124Physical Exercise

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Episode 125Euthanasia

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Episode 126Karma in a Holocaust

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Episode 127Why the Abdomen?

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Episode 128Sexual Misconduct Part 1 of 2

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Episode 129Sexual Misconduct Part 2 of 2

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Episode 130How to Balance the Faculties?

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Episode 131How to Stay on the Middle Way?

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Episode 132Strange Experiences

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Episode 133Life Partners

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Episode 134Dealing With People

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Episode 135Samatha Jhana, Vipassana Jhana

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Episode 136Esoteric Theravada Buddhism

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Episode 137Nama and Rupa

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Episode 138Mindful Enough

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Episode 139Good Reason to Ordain

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Episode 140Mindfulness of Breathing

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Episode 141Social Learning

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Episode 142Right Concentration

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Episode 143Nightmares

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Episode 144Wisdom

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Episode 145Dealing with Theists

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Episode 146Science Vs. Religion

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Episode 147Dealing with Missionaries

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Episode 148Ajaan Tong

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Episode 149What did you gain from meditation?

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Episode 150Joining the Military

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Episode 151To Be Or Not To Be

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Episode 152Remembering Past Lives

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Episode 153Why People Think Buddhists Worship Idols

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Episode 154Teaching Meditation to Children

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Episode 155Realizing Impermance, Suffering, Non-self

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Episode 156Study of the Dhamma Vs. Practice

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Episode 157Meditating Lying Down

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Episode 158Scheduling Meditation

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Episode 159Should You Meditate When You Are Tired?

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Episode 160Astral Projection

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Episode 161Giving Up The Mantra

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Episode 162Sitting With Eyes Opened

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Episode 163When You are No Longer a Beginner

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Episode 164Difficult Family Members

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Episode 165Noting Thinking

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Episode 166Meditating 24/7?

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Episode 167The Truth of the Tipitaka

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Episode 168How to avoid nihilism?

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Episode 169Lying to Save a Life?

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Episode 170Relationships and Letting Go

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Episode 171Do Enlightened Beings Feel Pain?

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Episode 172Helping Others Prepare for Death

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Episode 173Is Extended Meditation Physicially Dangerous?

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Episode 174Magical Powers

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Episode 175True Refuge

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Episode 176Drinking Coffee

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Episode 177Fifth Precept (Drugs and Alcohol)

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Episode 178Lust

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Episode 179Morality and Meditation

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Episode 180Modern Education

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Episode 181Equanimity of a Buffalo

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Episode 182Do Opposites Create Each Other?

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Episode 183Does Meditation Repress Emotions?

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Episode 184Fear and Illusion

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Episode 185Are the Mind and Brain Different?

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Episode 186Doubt About Karma

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Episode 187Monk Radio Introductions

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Episode 188Right Concentration as the Jhanas

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Episode 189Are Monk Precepts Binding?

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Episode 190Focusing on the Abdomen

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Episode 191Moving During Meditation

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Episode 192Difficulty for Women Monastics

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Episode 193Meditating During Hard Times

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Episode 194Brainwashing

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Episode 195Meditating During Difficult Times

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Episode 196Does Meditation Make One Anti-Social?

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Episode 197Avoiding Delusion

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Episode 198Helping Others

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Episode 199Why Walking Meditation Comes First

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Episode 200Working With Difficult People

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Episode 201Barriers to Meditation Progress

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Episode 202Proper Noting in Meditation

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Episode 203Eating and the Middle Way

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Episode 204Eating One Meal A Day

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Episode 205How To Form Opinions If You're Just Mindful?

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Episode 206Born to Be Good

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Episode 207Mindfulness of Whatever Arises

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Episode 208Meditation Course Curriculum

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Episode 209Doubt About Becoming a Monk

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Episode 210Physics and Buddhism

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Episode 211Sustaining Enlightenment

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Episode 212The Ten Imperfections of Insight (Vipassana Upakilesa)

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Episode 213Proper Noting Procedure

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Episode 214Persistent Stressful Phenomena

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Episode 215Wholesome and Unwholesome States in Practice

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Episode 216Is Cessation An Experience?

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Episode 217Overcoming Fear of Ordaining

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Episode 218Knowledge of Samatha Jhanas

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Episode 219On The Right Track

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Episode 220Frustration With Inanimate Objects

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Episode 221Psychedelic Drugs

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Episode 222Health Benefits of Meditation

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Episode 223An Ideal Buddhist Society

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Episode 224Existence of Matter

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Episode 225Personal Interpretations Vs. Orthodox Buddhism

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Episode 226When Pain Becomes Unbearable

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Episode 227Where Experience Continues After Death

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Episode 228What Happens at Nibbana?

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Episode 229Noting in Meditation

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Episode 230Are Arahants Free from Karma?

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Episode 231Keeping Mindful During the Day

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Episode 232Paranoia about Rules and Precepts

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Episode 233Answering Questions from Family Members

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Episode 234Thoughts Against Others

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Episode 235The Buddha's Nibbana

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Episode 236Committing to a Tradition

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Episode 237Arahants and Buddhas

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Episode 238Dealing With Anger in Meditation

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Episode 239Contradictions in Monastic Practice

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Episode 240Lay Practice of Generosity and Renunciation

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Episode 241Moderized Buddhist Translations

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Episode 242Intellectual Knowledge of Insight Knowledge

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Episode 243Role of Freedom and Creativity in Enlightenment

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Episode 244Reasons For Ordaining

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Episode 245Life WIthout Suffering

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Episode 246Teaching Buddhism as Lay People

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Episode 247Guided Internet Retreat

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Episode 248What is Depression?

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Episode 249What the Buddha Taught

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Episode 250Writing A Book

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Episode 251Doing Good Deeds Unwillingly

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Episode 252Coping With Dying

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Episode 253Fleeting Thoughts

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Episode 254Meditating With Earplugs

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Episode 255Living a More Buddhist Life

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Episode 256Wanting to Be Free

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Episode 257Interest In Monastic Life

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Episode 258Stream Enterer

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Episode 259Interview With A Meditator

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Episode 260Undeserved Anger

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Episode 261How Frequent Should Noting Be?

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Episode 262Age Limit For Ordination

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Episode 263Pushing One's Limits

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Episode 264Religious Tolerance

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Episode 265What If Everyone Was Buddhist?

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Episode 266Buddhists Who Don't Follow Buddhism

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Episode 267Equanimity

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Episode 268Bringing Up the Past

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Episode 269Beauty

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Episode 270Noting Outside of Meditation

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Episode 271Staying Calm, Reoccuring Dreams

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Episode 272Maintaining Peaceful Relationships With Non-Meditators

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Episode 273When Noting Drops Off

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Episode 274Pali And Buddhism Courses

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Episode 275Worldly Motivation

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Episode 276Role Of Lay Buddhists

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Episode 277Partiality to Solitude

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Episode 278What Goes From Life To Life?

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Episode 279Physical Disabilities

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Episode 280Cultivating Anatta

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Episode 281Do Arahants Experience Extreme Suffering?

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Episode 282Experimental Meditation Techniques

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Episode 283Bhikkhuni Dress Code

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Episode 284Interview With A Meditator (Sumedha)

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Episode 285Learning From Other Monasteries

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Episode 286Practicing with Other Groups

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Episode 287Overdosing on Study

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Episode 288Alternate Paths To Enlightenment

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Episode 289What's So Special About Buddhism?

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Episode 290Finding Your Own Teacher

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Episode 291Mindfulness And Noting

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Episode 292The Evolution of Meditation

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Episode 293The Mind and Rebirth

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Episode 294Meditation Progress

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Episode 295Curing Phobia

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Episode 296Greeting a Monk

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Episode 297Social Justice

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Episode 298Judging With Wisdom

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Episode 299Meditating in Public

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Episode 300Power of Protective Chanting

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