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 1Monastics Learning Secular Laws

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Episode 2Buddhist Traditions and Lineages

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Episode 3Ordination Insurance

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Episode 4Three Pathways to Liberation

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Episode 5Inability to Tame the Mind

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Episode 6Jobs for Monks

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Episode 7Ordination and Enlightenment

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Episode 8Short Retreats

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Episode 9Buddhism and Other Religions

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Episode 10Describing One's Practice To Others

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Episode 11Hand on the Stomach

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Episode 12Monks and Ill Parents

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Episode 13Ordination With a Medical Condition

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Episode 14Do You Have to Let Go of Anything?

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Episode 15Interview With a Meditator (Yasa)

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Episode 16Aspirations and Ordinations

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Episode 17Inability to Do A Retreat

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Episode 18Monks and Music

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Episode 19Disturbing Vibrations

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Episode 20Nibbana and Heaven

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Episode 21Tantric Sex

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Episode 22Paying For Retreats

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Episode 23Getting A Life

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Episode 24Retreats for New Meditators

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Episode 25Killing One To Save One Thousand

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Episode 26Monks and Novices

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Episode 27Learning From Other Schools

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Episode 28Married Monks

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Episode 29Families and Ordination

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Episode 30Meditate On This

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Episode 31Buddhism and Non-Dualism

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Episode 32Meditation Courses with Mental Illnesses

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Episode 33Monks, Meditators, Yogis

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Episode 34Scientific Testing of Arahants

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Episode 35Anger, Mindfulness and Repression

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Episode 36Taking Nibbana as an Object

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Episode 37Importance of Metta

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Episode 3832 Parts of the Body

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Episode 39Giving Up Noting

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Episode 40Christian Meditators Feeling Jesus and God

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Episode 41Non-Self and Reincarnation

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Episode 42Clear Comprehension, Direct Understanding, Mindfulness

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Episode 43Fear and Anger

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Episode 44Solving the World's Problems

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Episode 45Our Practice With Ajaan Tong

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Episode 46Finding Peace and Happiness

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Episode 47Supressing Emotions

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Episode 48Meditation Techniques of the Buddha

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Episode 49Advanced Meditation Techniques

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Episode 50Activities of the Buddha

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Episode 51Thinking and Living

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Episode 52The Goal of Meditation

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Episode 53How to Know When Meditation is Working

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Episode 54Depression from Illness

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Episode 55Procrastination

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Episode 56Disrobing and Lay Life

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Episode 57Karma vs. Probability

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Episode 58Buddhist Prophets

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Episode 59Writing Out Suttas

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Episode 60Middle Way vs. Moderate Way

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Episode 61Moving From Object to Object

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Episode 62After Ordination

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Episode 63Where Do Old Monks Go?

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Episode 64Dealing With Social Pressure

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Episode 65How Good Acts Bring Good Results

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Episode 66Analyzing Sexuality

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Episode 67Religious Travel

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Episode 68Lucid Dreams vs. Reality

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Episode 69Derealization

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Episode 70Taking the Same Meditation Course Again

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Episode 71Minimum Daily Meditation For Enlightenment

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Episode 72Buddhism and God

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Episode 73Experience of Wisdom

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Episode 74Where To Start For Enlightenment

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Episode 75Trying to Be Equanimous

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Episode 76Effectiveness of Walking Meditation

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Episode 77Increasing Viriya (Effort)

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Episode 78Nimitta, Access Concentration, Kasina

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Episode 79Justified Violence

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Episode 80What is Noting?

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Episode 81How Much to Donate After a Retreat?

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Episode 82Desire and Guilt

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Episode 83The Hippie Culture

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Episode 84Distracted by Seeing Cause and Effect

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Episode 85Answering Questions

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Episode 86Distractions at Work

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Episode 87Worshipping the Buddha

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Episode 88Repression of Emotions

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Episode 89Meditation for Anxious People

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Episode 90An Enlightened Teacher

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Episode 91Higher and Lower Attainments

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Episode 92Practice Before a Retreat

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Episode 93Monks Clinging to the Internet

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Episode 94Sexual Relationships in Buddhism

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Episode 95Contemplation of Dukkha

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Episode 96Christian Happiness and Enlightenment

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Episode 97Attachment and Love in Relationships

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Episode 98Accepting Change

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Episode 99How Much Must We Note?

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Episode 100Importance of Traditions

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Episode 101Regrettable Vows

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Episode 102Letting Go of the Future

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Episode 103Learning Pali

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Episode 104Thailand

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Episode 105Formal Determinations

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Episode 106Spouses

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Episode 107Realizing Your Fetters

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Episode 108Gaining Nothing

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Episode 109Truth Hurts

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Episode 110Holy Rapture

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Episode 111Giving Up

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Episode 112All That Exists

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Episode 113Is Control and Illusion?

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Episode 114Too Many Questions

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Episode 115Is Becoming Sotapanna Gradual or Spontaneous?

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Episode 116Buddhist Riots

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Episode 117The Part Music Plays

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Episode 118Gradual Transition to Monasticism

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Episode 119Fear of Telling the Truth

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Episode 120Fear of Death

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Episode 121Brain and Mind

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Episode 122Calming Down, Panic Attack

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Episode 123Mindfulness Without Noting

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Episode 124Relaxing in Life

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Episode 125Avoiding Attraction

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Episode 126Dealing With Proselytizing

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Episode 127Once-returner and Non-returner

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Episode 128Contemplation on Impermanence, Suffering and Non-Self

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Episode 129Practicing Satipatthana or Vipassana

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Episode 130Social Issues

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Episode 131How You See The Buddha

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Episode 132Appearance of the Buddha

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Episode 133Progressing in Daily Life

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Episode 134Are Asubha Conceptual?

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Episode 135Fear Upon Losing Awareness

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Episode 136Difference Between Meditation and Prayer

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Episode 137Notion of God

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Episode 138Removing Wrong Thoughts

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Episode 139Fairy Tales

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Episode 140Irregular Heart Beat

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Episode 141Accepting Yourself

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Episode 142Vipassana Without Momentary Concentration

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Episode 143Mindfulness on a Busy Day

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Episode 144Ethics and Age

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Episode 145Politics

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Episode 146Death vs. Nibbana

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Episode 147Progress Against Depression

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Episode 148Experiencing Nibbana

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Episode 149Balancing Normal Life and Meditation

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Episode 150Unexpected Aspects of Ordination

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Episode 151Is It Good To Give Up?

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Episode 152Living Without Desires

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Episode 153Putting Desires to Use

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Episode 154Do Good and Bad Exist?

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Episode 155Stress in Dreams

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Episode 156Uselessness of Everything

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Episode 157Understanding vs. Happiness

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Episode 158Impermanence and Nibbana

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Episode 159Generating Motivation

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Episode 160Benefit of Pacceka Buddhas

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Episode 161Do I Have Free Will?

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Episode 162Removing Anxiety

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Episode 163Fear of Freedom

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Episode 164That Which Has Not Been Experienced

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Episode 165Divorce Conflict

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Episode 166Goals in Meditation

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Episode 167Not Feeling the Body

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Episode 168Guidance for Enlightened Beings

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Episode 169Premarital Ordination

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Episode 170Which Foundation of Mindfulness

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Episode 171Dualism in Quantum Physics

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Episode 172Strange Experiences in Meditation

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Episode 173Attachment to Becoming a Monk

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Episode 174Can A Murderer Become Enlightened

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Episode 175Coming to Practice Through Happiness or Suffering

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Episode 176Wisdom, Suffering, and Reality

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Episode 177Art in Buddhism

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Episode 178What is Real?

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Episode 179Alcohol

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Episode 180Realizing You're Wrong

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Episode 181Motivation

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Episode 182Controlling Too Much

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Episode 183Theistic Interruption

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Episode 184Is Nirvana a Place?

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Episode 185The Switch of Mindfulness

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Episode 186Materialists and Rebirth

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Episode 187Is Staying With the Breath Samatha?

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Episode 188Temporary Enlightenment

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Episode 189Removing Anxiety Completely

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Episode 190Point to Unmeditative Life?

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Episode 191Secular Mindfulness

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Episode 192Choosing Labels

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Episode 193Nervousness in Class

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Episode 194Finding Truth Within

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Episode 195Choosing One Type of Buddhism

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Episode 196Threat of Ugliness

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Episode 197Here To Help

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Episode 198Transferring Merit, Connecting With Deceased

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Episode 199End of Life Time

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Episode 200Alienation Through Meditation

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Episode 201Listening Mindfully

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Episode 202Yawning

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Episode 203Buddhist Astrology

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Episode 204Mahasi Sayadaw Books

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Episode 205Finding New Friends

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Episode 206Expressing Disapproval

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Episode 207Happiness vs. Freedom From Suffering

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Episode 208Teaching in Schools

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Episode 209Wants Vs. Needs

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Episode 210Becoming More Loving

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Episode 211Falling Over

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Episode 212Fear of Romance

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Episode 213Do Buddhists Believe in Chi?

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Episode 214Fearful Thoughts

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Episode 215Valid Meditation Objects

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Episode 216Pursuing Thoughts Mindfully

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Episode 217CombiningMeditations

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Episode 218Giving Alms

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Episode 219A Good Reason to Ordain

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Episode 220Multitasking Mind

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Episode 221Shrinking the Ego

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Episode 222Gifts to a Monastery

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Episode 223Permission For Spreading Dhamma

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Episode 224Pain for Enlightened Beings

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Episode 225Closing Words

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Episode 226What If Nibbana is False?

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Episode 227Both Samatha & Vipassana

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Episode 228Abhidhamma Pitaka and Vipassana

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Episode 229Clairvoyance

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Episode 230Crying

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Episode 231Watching Body Vs. Mind

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Episode 232Holding On To Realizations

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Episode 233A Victim's Satisfaction with Karma

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Episode 234Chanda vs. Tanha

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Episode 235Joy of Insight

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Episode 236Ordination and Family

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Episode 237What Brings Happiness

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Episode 238Love and Attachment

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Episode 239Joining Other Buddhist Traditions

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Episode 240Formally Taking a Teacher

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Episode 241Cause of Samsara

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Episode 242Walking and Sitting

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Episode 243Prior Knowledge of Knowledge

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Episode 244Severe Mental Illness

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Episode 245How To Know What is Moral and Immoral?

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Episode 246What To Do If There is No Teacher Nearby?

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Episode 247Swallowing

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Episode 248Remote Visions of Dying Relatives

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Episode 249Scanning and Noting

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Episode 250Intentionally Bringing Up Issues

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Episode 251Meeting and Interacting With Monastics

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Episode 252Working Out Family Issues

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Episode 253Meeting With Buddhism Next Life

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Episode 254Keeping Buddhist Holy Days

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Episode 255Genius and Past Lives

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Episode 256Cause of Pleasure vs. Pain

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Episode 257Why Don't We Hear About Enlightened Beings Today?

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Episode 258Dealing With Complacency

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Episode 259Recommended Meditation Method

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Episode 260Forcing Vs. Folllowing

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Episode 261Belief in Reincarnation and Nibbana

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Episode 262Tolerance

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Episode 263Studying Jhanas and Mindfulness Before Vipassana

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Episode 264Letting Go of Things That Cause Us Pain

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Episode 265Low Self-Esteem

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Episode 266Friendship

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Episode 267Monastic Discouragement

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Episode 268Samatha Meditation

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Episode 269Bad Parents

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Episode 270Cause of Ignorance

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Episode 271Wisdom From a Pleasant Glow

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Episode 272Pain and Self-Torture

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Episode 273Need For Sleep

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Episode 274The Materialistic Path

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Episode 275The Untenable Self

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Episode 276Love and Compassion

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Episode 277Angry People

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Episode 278Contact, Feeling, and Craving

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Episode 279Is Mindfulness Enough

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Episode 280Working Through Guilt

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Episode 281Why Am I Attached to Suffering?

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Episode 282The Body Is Unnatural

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Episode 283Balance Between Spirituality and Worldly Pursuits

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Episode 284Forcing Vs. Following

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Episode 285Will Meditation Help With Worldly Pursuits?

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Episode 286Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Meditation

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Episode 287Noting in the Head

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Episode 288Peripheral Awareness of Thoughts

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Episode 289Vipassana Meditation at the Nostrils

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Episode 290Does the Mind Have a Gender

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Episode 291Ridding Oneself of Songs in the Head

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Episode 292Drawing Awareness To A Thought

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Episode 293Right And Wrong Without Purpose or Value

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Episode 294Should Life Be A Meditation?

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Episode 295Subvocalizing Experience

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Episode 296Can There Be Desire That Isn't Harmful?

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Episode 297Do Arahants Know Everything About Reality?

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Episode 298Communicating With Destructive Parents

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Episode 299Fear Of Loss

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Episode 300Will Meditation Help Diminish The Ego?

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