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Are you getting tired of these Q&A's, Pannobhasa?

I know you are not a fan of Visudhimagga. But what is your opinion on Phala Samapatti and Nirodha Samapatti mentioned there?

@1:58:36 Theory of Samsara is a channel on TH-cam by a monk who seems quite knowledgeable of Buddhism philosophy. However his view quite often seems kinda woke.

Polish K word is the same as your F word. But literally it means "a woman who does it for money".

I have some basic knowledge of buddhism but it's kind of... all over the place. Could you make a buddhism for dummies video or something? So that I could get a grasp on how all the aspects of the buddhism philosophy fall into place? That would be neat.

Hello Pañño, do you know when the term "yogi" first emerged in a Theravadin context?

Finished. Took me two days, passing the Aberdeen exit twice. Once while eating cheese, in the afternoon.

Hello Pannobhasa, you mentioned in one of the previous Q&A (last year) the story of a monk who mainly spent effort to memorize the scriptures in a pointless way unless, unsatisfied with his spiritual progress also blamed by his companions, he changed his approach. Evtl. He find a teacher (an enlightened child monk, as other potential candidates hesitated to teach him as he was a monk who is more senior to them). The junior triggered a break through by using the parable how to catch a lizard. The name of the elder sounds for me like ‚Potala’ (hmm?) Unfortunately my hearing is sometimes bad. Could you please give me the exact name and were I could find it in the scriptures ( I will honestly try to use it not for the purpose of memorizing it in a pointless way :) ? I tried to find it by my own, including the use of AI. Unfortunately without success as I always got lost in the Ocean of available buddhist information.

Greetings Panno! What are your thoughts on the Visuddhimagga? Is it at a reliable read? It seems to be more organized and easier to read than the Pali Canon...Thoughts! (Your videos are never to long and i always look forward to listening)! Ty.

Venerable - what is the nature of your opinion with respect to the channel 'Theory of Samsara'?

this one could almost qualify as a transgressive 4th question: has anyone noticed that Pañño's videos start glitching (a second or two) after roughly the 30 to 45 minute mark?

How about imagination and feeling LSD springs to Mind.🥸Indras net?what was the sci fi book Otto mentioned?

Bless you 2

Rock on guys😊

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

I'm extremely surprised you don't know who Shantideva is... he was a bit of a rebellious and solitary monk who caught a lot of criticism by the other monks because of his unorthodox methods. The monks even tried to set him up for failure at one point and it backfired on them big time. His story is also very similar to the Buddha's. Both were born to great wealth and were supposed to become kings and renounced it in order to pursue liberation. I strongly recommend you read his book: Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra "A guide to the Bodhisattva's way of Life", I think you will like it. He teaches the Dhamma in a beautiful poetic style. I don't know if you enjoy Dhamma taught through poetry. How about Milarepa or Longchenpa, do you know any of them? If yes, what do you think of them? Thank you.

Loved this. I was an RC monk for 6 years in Spain. Loved the Buddhist angle on this great guy!

What is the reason that in the west All bad thing that happens is contributed to Karma, and all good to God? It's baffling to me that people think karma is only responsible for bad stuff

You should not work nights if you can. It will wreck your health.

Pannobhasa, no need to apologise for the length of your videos. They are very insightful and we always can pose them, and then continue to watch them later.

I have to say I don't really understand how someone is karmically punished for noticing that certain Arahant has good gold skin.

Greetings Panno, Can you speak in general about the Jataka Tales of the Buddha's past lives? Are there any of these tales that especially resonate with you or you feel contain the most wisdom an aspiring Buddhist can learn from? Can you recommend a simple, compact version of the Jataka Tales, similar to Aesop's Fables, that I can purchase? Thanks as always and be well, Romeo

Did you learn the most popular polish word on a first day on Polish ship? 😊

Hello Pañño, a simple one: for you what would be the percentage of wheat and chaff in the canon? And also, what's your view of the fashion, even sponsored by some fully ordained mendicants, of dhamma groups segregated by race and sexual orientation (dhamma groups for black and brown people, dhamma groups for queers)? Isn't developing a carapace against hyper-sensitivity a good chunk of the practice?

A little less heavy this time but I’m not quite sure how to configure this. 1. Why should we strive for enlightenment if we can be properly suspicious that terms such as “enlightened beings” refers to nothing or are otherwise unquantifiable? I have hit a wall here and cant escape a kind of skepticism or nihilism about the reality of something like enlightenment despite the fact that I’m arbitrarily certain that other elements of the dhamma are reliably true, e.g, that the world is a denser mental state and that consciousness is undesirable, etc. However, I cannot make much sense of the advice that striving for enlightenment(which is implied to be impossible or nebulous) is both samsaric or hindering, and also the object of our urgency. 2. If we can only use folk terms for mental states, with language or abstraction never capturing reality, what is the criteria for liberation? I’m sure I’ve asked something like this before. Its not a question of “right perceptions” or “right view”, but there seems to be no real grounding to the reality of something like a “liberated being”. The predicaments of various interpretations and contentions surrounding meditative states seems inevitable and that by and large they are totally unresolvable because mental states are not qualifiable or able to be mapped. Having insight that the intellect is established seems to not actually help us here. We might say that an enlightened being is free of suffering, but this seems to be ripe with potential for confusion. A being may appear to not experience suffering, yet their internal world could be radically different, etc. Outside of the consensus of agreement on what certain words mean or their relationship to reality, “truth” would then seem to be totally irrelevant or even impossible. 3. Do we have the power to say one way or another? If these two former questions are unanswerable or result in paradox, then it seems that openness or interpretive eclecticism are actually degenerative, because we can more or less say/believe anything, or be suspicious about anything in regards to the spirit or its function. If we tell others or motivate others to “see for themselves” or “conclude for themselves”, we have a series of idiosyncrasies, not something robust of which we can commit to or have faith in. In that way I see dogma and orthodoxy as inescapable without losing the plot entirely. If we don’t have the power to say one way over another, I don’t see how skeptical doubt could be overcome at all. This process of spiritual or immaterial induction has no real ending.

Almost all of my friends are more successful than me, make more money than me. This really bothers me. Any Idea on how I could deal with this?

I met a person who does a Goenka meditation, they told me that you should not know anything about Buddhism and learning Dhamma is useless, I was baffled. I tried convincing them that right effort is important but failed. Any thoughts?(They told me that it comes from meditation, right effort)

Q1: Why you make a special point on not telling lies when you occasionaly drink beer and maybe once in a while kill a mosquito? (maybe)

Are you secretly a vigilante superhero, with a double identity, fighting crime and bringing justice to the world when no one's looking?

The Jeff guy asking about the karma for an ideal woman and the host not batting an eyelid and answering it so causually 😂

It looks like your black monk bowl is levitating.

Looks like you can get pretty decent job by December. Sir 😅🎅

Let's Goooooo! ❤❤❤❤

How were the pyramids built?

Another epic Sunday Dhamma talk! I agree on( solitary themed films for us semi misanthropes) Planet of the Apes and Omega Man... I'd also add Logan's Run, too. And I've always loved being around myself, and aside from my sweetheart, a few cats and a dog is enough to have for company. I'm also glad that you and Otto will be chatting again, it's been a while.

What's the longest time you have meditated

0:50 Avoiding Humanity; 5:07 early apophatic Buddhism; 10:05 Melford Spiro; 15:57 Dissolving Self ; 21:08 Bliss and contentment; 22:00 Neo-Advaita; 25:38 Black monks; 28:05 Formless Jhanas and Hinderances; 37:30 depression in heaven; 39:15 opting out of heaven and Nibbana and Sotapanna; 46:52 sleep paralysis; 53:44 finding the perfect woman; 59:20 Tom Campbell, Arthur Blessit; 1:02:30 self-deletion; 1:04:05 next sutta video; 1:04:30 parable of the workers in the vineyard; 1:08:10 tour of my house; 1:09:25 loneliness; 1:16:30 suttas on mindfulness; 1:17:58 Albert Camus; 1:21:35 horizontal meditation; 1:23:55 the five remembrances; 1:25:05 I’ve learned from meditation; 1:27:50 dealing with inconstancy; 1:33:15 heresy of Ajahn Martin; 1:44:26 Journey to the West; 1:47:50 obtrusive joy in breath meditation; 1:50:16 dystopian AI dictatorship; 1:53:22 Daniel Ingram; 1:56:30 karma of messing with Arahants; 2:05:55 a future toothache; 2:08:40 sexy Q&A cover & quotes about projection; 2:17:22 monks blessing houses and buildings; 2:19:30 Yogacara Buddhism; 2:25:50 fallibility of enlightened beings; 2:31:04 rebirth and karma in earliest Buddhism; 2:35:00 The Seventh Seal; 2:40:06 Buddhist ethics vs. moral relativism; 2:42:00 Dawn of the Dead; 2:45:00 karma of the swine of Gadara; 2:47:36 being the last man on earth; 2:49:56 my gaming experience; 2:54:30 Shantideva; 2:54:40 “sleep more comfortably”; 3:00:40 Red Pine; 3:03:38 true nature; 3:06:40 monastic qualities that helped me become a layman; 3:10:40 qualities that hindered transition to lay status; 3:13:58 what I am drinking in the video this time.

Wait, Journey to the west is Chinese classic, Mahayana influence with Sun Wukong and search of the Buddha scrolls.

You Haven't answer my Q2 question.

Whew, buckle up this a looooong one😊

I love this shit!

Hail and good health to you. Playing devil's (or Mara's) advocate, what would your arguments against Buddhism be? Have you ever been a fan of tabletop pen-and-paper role-playing games, such as Dungeons and Dragons? Thanks!

FOR next Q&A I want a buddhist Rambo thumbnail.

What's today's beverage? What's the flavor and are the contents of it healthy for you or is it all chemicals?

Question #2: I once heard you say the following quote: "Most Buddhists, especially in the West, are not trying to wake up. They're just trying to sleep more comfortably." It was during a group video call, I think Brian Ruhe was one of the people on it. Honestly this was the quote that made me look you up on the internet and watch more of your videos. It's one of the greatest and most badass quotes I've ever heard from anyone in the world. I agree with you. Can you please elaborate a little bit more on it? I just want you to expand your message, which I believe, it's extremely important in these modern times. Thank you.

Greetings Panno! Have you read the Zen teachings of Bodidharma by Red Pine? What are your thoughts on true nature? Is it equivalent to spirit, awareness or universal consciousness? Love listening, Ty.

What's your opinion of Shantideva?

(Question for next week, but no response required) After hearing your experience of letting go and then experiencing your “best” meditations - You’ve likely realised this, but have you considered the possibility that you became attached to those meditative states and created expectation and craving for them? Also, in my opinion, that level of stillness and equanimity you describe would probably bring up some deep defilements and that would also be a hinderance to getting back into those states. Personally, I’d probably consider the meditative states which remove most defilements as “best”.

What is your gaming experience like? I feel you would've been a big Doom guy back in the day.

If kamma is morally subjective and dependent on mental states, does it open the the way for moral relativism like we see today?