Ask a Monk (Part 2)

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

Episode 1

Monastics Learning Secular Laws
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Episode 2

Buddhist Traditions and Lineages
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Episode 3

Ordination Insurance
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Episode 4

Three Pathways to Liberation
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Episode 5

Inability to Tame the Mind
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Episode 6

Jobs for Monks
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Episode 7

Ordination and Enlightenment
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Episode 8

Short Retreats
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Episode 9

Buddhism and Other Religions
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Episode 10

Describing One's Practice To Others
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Episode 11

Hand on the Stomach
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Episode 12

Monks and Ill Parents
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Episode 13

Ordination With a Medical Condition
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Episode 14

Do You Have to Let Go of Anything?
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Episode 15

Interview With a Meditator (Yasa)
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Episode 16

Aspirations and Ordinations
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Episode 17

Inability to Do A Retreat
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Episode 18

Monks and Music
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Episode 19

Disturbing Vibrations
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Episode 20

Nibbana and Heaven
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Episode 21

Tantric Sex
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Episode 22

Paying For Retreats
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Episode 23

Getting A Life
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Episode 24

Retreats for New Meditators
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Episode 25

Killing One To Save One Thousand
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Episode 26

Monks and Novices
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Episode 27

Learning From Other Schools
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Episode 28

Married Monks
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Episode 29

Families and Ordination
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Episode 30

Meditate On This
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Episode 31

Buddhism and Non-Dualism
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Episode 32

Meditation Courses with Mental Illnesses
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Episode 33

Monks, Meditators, Yogis
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Episode 34

Scientific Testing of Arahants
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Episode 35

Anger, Mindfulness and Repression
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Episode 36

Taking Nibbana as an Object
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Episode 37

Importance of Metta
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Episode 38

32 Parts of the Body
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Episode 39

Giving Up Noting
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Episode 40

Christian Meditators Feeling Jesus and God
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Episode 41

Non-Self and Reincarnation
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Episode 42

Clear Comprehension, Direct Understanding, Mindfulness
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Episode 43

Fear and Anger
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Episode 44

Solving the World's Problems
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Episode 45

Our Practice With Ajaan Tong
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Episode 46

Finding Peace and Happiness
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Episode 47

Supressing Emotions
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Episode 48

Meditation Techniques of the Buddha
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Episode 49

Advanced Meditation Techniques
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Episode 50

Activities of the Buddha
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Episode 51

Thinking and Living
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Episode 52

The Goal of Meditation
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Episode 53

How to Know When Meditation is Working
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Episode 54

Depression from Illness
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Episode 55

Procrastination
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Episode 56

Disrobing and Lay Life
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Episode 57

Karma vs. Probability
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Episode 58

Buddhist Prophets
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Episode 59

Writing Out Suttas
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Episode 60

Middle Way vs. Moderate Way
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Episode 61

Moving From Object to Object
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Episode 62

After Ordination
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Episode 63

Where Do Old Monks Go?
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Episode 64

Dealing With Social Pressure
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Episode 65

How Good Acts Bring Good Results
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Episode 66

Analyzing Sexuality
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Episode 67

Religious Travel
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Episode 68

Lucid Dreams vs. Reality
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Episode 69

Derealization
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Episode 70

Taking the Same Meditation Course Again
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Episode 71

Minimum Daily Meditation For Enlightenment
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Episode 72

Buddhism and God
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Episode 73

Experience of Wisdom
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Episode 74

Where To Start For Enlightenment
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Episode 75

Trying to Be Equanimous
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Episode 76

Effectiveness of Walking Meditation
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Episode 77

Increasing Viriya (Effort)
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Episode 78

Nimitta, Access Concentration, Kasina
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Episode 79

Justified Violence
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Episode 80

What is Noting?
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Episode 81

How Much to Donate After a Retreat?
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Episode 82

Desire and Guilt
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Episode 83

The Hippie Culture
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Episode 84

Distracted by Seeing Cause and Effect
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Episode 85

Answering Questions
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Episode 86

Distractions at Work
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Episode 87

Worshipping the Buddha
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Episode 88

Repression of Emotions
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Episode 89

Meditation for Anxious People
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Episode 90

An Enlightened Teacher
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Episode 91

Higher and Lower Attainments
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Episode 92

Practice Before a Retreat
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Episode 93

Monks Clinging to the Internet
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Episode 94

Sexual Relationships in Buddhism
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Episode 95

Contemplation of Dukkha
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Episode 96

Christian Happiness and Enlightenment
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Episode 97

Attachment and Love in Relationships
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Episode 98

Accepting Change
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Episode 99

How Much Must We Note?
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Episode 100

Importance of Traditions
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Episode 101

Regrettable Vows
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Episode 102

Letting Go of the Future
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Episode 103

Learning Pali
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Episode 104

Thailand
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Episode 105

Formal Determinations
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Episode 106

Spouses
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Episode 107

Realizing Your Fetters
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Episode 108

Gaining Nothing
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Episode 109

Truth Hurts
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Episode 110

Holy Rapture
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Episode 111

Giving Up
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Episode 112

All That Exists
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Episode 113

Is Control and Illusion?
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Episode 114

Too Many Questions
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Episode 115

Is Becoming Sotapanna Gradual or Spontaneous?
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Episode 116

Buddhist Riots
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Episode 117

The Part Music Plays
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Episode 118

Gradual Transition to Monasticism
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Episode 119

Fear of Telling the Truth
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Episode 120

Fear of Death
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Episode 121

Brain and Mind
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Episode 122

Calming Down, Panic Attack
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Episode 123

Mindfulness Without Noting
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Episode 124

Relaxing in Life
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Episode 125

Avoiding Attraction
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Episode 126

Dealing With Proselytizing
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Episode 127

Once-returner and Non-returner
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Episode 128

Contemplation on Impermanence, Suffering and Non-Self
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Episode 129

Practicing Satipatthana or Vipassana
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Episode 130

Social Issues
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Episode 131

How You See The Buddha
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Episode 132

Appearance of the Buddha
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Episode 133

Progressing in Daily Life
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Episode 134

Are Asubha Conceptual?
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Episode 135

Fear Upon Losing Awareness
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Episode 136

Difference Between Meditation and Prayer
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Episode 137

Notion of God
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Episode 138

Removing Wrong Thoughts
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Episode 139

Fairy Tales
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Episode 140

Irregular Heart Beat
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Episode 141

Accepting Yourself
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Episode 142

Vipassana Without Momentary Concentration
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Episode 143

Mindfulness on a Busy Day
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Episode 144

Ethics and Age
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Episode 145

Politics
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Episode 146

Death vs. Nibbana
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Episode 147

Progress Against Depression
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Episode 148

Experiencing Nibbana
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Episode 149

Balancing Normal Life and Meditation
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Episode 150

Unexpected Aspects of Ordination
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Episode 151

Is It Good To Give Up?
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Episode 152

Living Without Desires
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Episode 153

Putting Desires to Use
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Episode 154

Do Good and Bad Exist?
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Episode 155

Stress in Dreams
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Episode 156

Uselessness of Everything
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Episode 157

Understanding vs. Happiness
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Episode 158

Impermanence and Nibbana
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Episode 159

Generating Motivation
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Episode 160

Benefit of Pacceka Buddhas
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Episode 161

Do I Have Free Will?
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Episode 162

Removing Anxiety
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Episode 163

Fear of Freedom
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Episode 164

That Which Has Not Been Experienced
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Episode 165

Divorce Conflict
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Episode 166

Goals in Meditation
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Episode 167

Not Feeling the Body
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Episode 168

Guidance for Enlightened Beings
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Episode 169

Premarital Ordination
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Episode 170

Which Foundation of Mindfulness
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Episode 171

Dualism in Quantum Physics
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Episode 172

Strange Experiences in Meditation
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Episode 173

Attachment to Becoming a Monk
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Episode 174

Can A Murderer Become Enlightened
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Episode 175

Coming to Practice Through Happiness or Suffering
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Episode 176

Wisdom, Suffering, and Reality
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Episode 177

Art in Buddhism
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Episode 178

What is Real?
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Episode 179

Alcohol
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Episode 180

Realizing You're Wrong
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Episode 181

Motivation
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Episode 182

Controlling Too Much
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Episode 183

Theistic Interruption
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Episode 184

Is Nirvana a Place?
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Episode 185

The Switch of Mindfulness
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Episode 186

Materialists and Rebirth
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Episode 187

Is Staying With the Breath Samatha?
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Episode 188

Temporary Enlightenment
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Episode 189

Removing Anxiety Completely
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Episode 190

Point to Unmeditative Life?
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Episode 191

Secular Mindfulness
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Episode 192

Choosing Labels
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Episode 193

Nervousness in Class
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Episode 194

Finding Truth Within
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Episode 195

Choosing One Type of Buddhism
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Episode 196

Threat of Ugliness
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Episode 197

Here To Help
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Episode 198

Transferring Merit, Connecting With Deceased
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Episode 199

End of Life Time
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Episode 200

Alienation Through Meditation
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Episode 201

Listening Mindfully
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Episode 202

Yawning
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Episode 203

Buddhist Astrology
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Episode 204

Mahasi Sayadaw Books
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Episode 205

Finding New Friends
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Episode 206

Expressing Disapproval
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Episode 207

Happiness vs. Freedom From Suffering
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Episode 208

Teaching in Schools
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Episode 209

Wants Vs. Needs
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Episode 210

Becoming More Loving
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Episode 211

Falling Over
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Episode 212

Fear of Romance
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Episode 213

Do Buddhists Believe in Chi?
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Episode 214

Fearful Thoughts
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Episode 215

Valid Meditation Objects
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Episode 216

Pursuing Thoughts Mindfully
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Episode 217

CombiningMeditations
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Episode 218

Giving Alms
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Episode 219

A Good Reason to Ordain
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Episode 220

Multitasking Mind
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Episode 221

Shrinking the Ego
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Episode 222

Gifts to a Monastery
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Episode 223

Permission For Spreading Dhamma
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Episode 224

Pain for Enlightened Beings
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Episode 225

Closing Words
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Episode 226

What If Nibbana is False?
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Episode 227

Both Samatha & Vipassana
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Episode 228

Abhidhamma Pitaka and Vipassana
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Episode 229

Clairvoyance
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Episode 230

Crying
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Episode 231

Watching Body Vs. Mind
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Episode 232

Holding On To Realizations
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Episode 233

A Victim's Satisfaction with Karma
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Episode 234

Chanda vs. Tanha
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Episode 235

Joy of Insight
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Episode 236

Ordination and Family
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Episode 237

What Brings Happiness
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Episode 238

Love and Attachment
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Episode 239

Joining Other Buddhist Traditions
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Episode 240

Formally Taking a Teacher
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Episode 241

Cause of Samsara
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Episode 242

Walking and Sitting
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Episode 243

Prior Knowledge of Knowledge
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Episode 244

Severe Mental Illness
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Episode 245

How To Know What is Moral and Immoral?
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Episode 246

What To Do If There is No Teacher Nearby?
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Episode 247

Swallowing
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Episode 248

Remote Visions of Dying Relatives
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Scanning and Noting
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Intentionally Bringing Up Issues
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Episode 251

Meeting and Interacting With Monastics
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Working Out Family Issues
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Meeting With Buddhism Next Life
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Episode 254

Keeping Buddhist Holy Days
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Episode 255

Genius and Past Lives
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Episode 256

Cause of Pleasure vs. Pain
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Episode 257

Why Don't We Hear About Enlightened Beings Today?
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Episode 258

Dealing With Complacency
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Recommended Meditation Method
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Episode 260

Forcing Vs. Folllowing
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Belief in Reincarnation and Nibbana
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Tolerance
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Studying Jhanas and Mindfulness Before Vipassana
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Letting Go of Things That Cause Us Pain
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Low Self-Esteem
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Friendship
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Monastic Discouragement
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Samatha Meditation
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Bad Parents
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Cause of Ignorance
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Wisdom From a Pleasant Glow
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Pain and Self-Torture
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Need For Sleep
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The Materialistic Path
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The Untenable Self
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Love and Compassion
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Angry People
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Contact, Feeling, and Craving
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Episode 279

Is Mindfulness Enough
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Working Through Guilt
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Episode 281

Why Am I Attached to Suffering?
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The Body Is Unnatural
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Balance Between Spirituality and Worldly Pursuits
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Forcing Vs. Following
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Episode 285

Will Meditation Help With Worldly Pursuits?
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Episode 286

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Meditation
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Episode 287

Noting in the Head
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Episode 288

Peripheral Awareness of Thoughts
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Episode 289

Vipassana Meditation at the Nostrils
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Does the Mind Have a Gender
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Episode 291

Ridding Oneself of Songs in the Head
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Drawing Awareness To A Thought
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Right And Wrong Without Purpose or Value
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Episode 294

Should Life Be A Meditation?
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Subvocalizing Experience
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Can There Be Desire That Isn't Harmful?
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Episode 297

Do Arahants Know Everything About Reality?
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Episode 298

Communicating With Destructive Parents
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Fear Of Loss
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Episode 300

Will Meditation Help Diminish The Ego?
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