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- Questions include: monks who masturbate without confessing it; monks not making confession because the live in solitude; Moby Dick; desert island books; could someone write a book like Moby Dick today; becoming a wanderer a few years after being ordained; fever hallucinations; hallucinations causing insight; fear of being “mogged”; the next sutta discussion video; tips on self-discipline; how can a delusional mind verify Dhamma; Right View resulting from group spirit; the enlightened being after death; tanha and chanda; Buddhas experiencing chanda; paccekabuddhas; the “fake shooting of Donald Trump”; the ethics of depriving a hunter of his prey; enlightenment neutralizing Love and Beauty; the philosophy of Conan the Barbarian; pilgrimage to Bodh Gaya; leftist bias on Wikipedia; justified wars; is Samsara itself not impermanent; using TH-cam posts for quizzes on Buddhism; Thai Buddhism and consciousness as self; perverts starting religious movements; atheists like Richard Dawkins; embarrassment over public farts; mental crises on the path to Nirvana; how am I doing; being ordained without parental consent; a midlife crisis; rebirth without a self; anxiety upon moving from one place to another; the official narrative on WW2; wanting to take refuge in another being; and the nature of the cessation of feeling and perception.
On NIN “Every Day Is Exactly the Same”: Reminds me very much of Pink Floyd’s *The Wall*, as it's a dark song about giving up, about alienation, maladjustment, and depression, and possibly desire to “autoterminate.” Not much wisdom in it.
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0. What is the origin of your name Pannobhassa?
1. Is it harder to become a monk now than when you ordained in the 90s?
2. Would the Buddha, if incarnated today, be a luddite?
3. What's the bare minimum practice one would realistically need to attain stream entry? I'm guessing keeping at least 5 precepts, if not 8, and some amount of daily meditation (but how much?) is a must.
You said up to 3 questions so there you go.
So Englightened ones have pure love? Didn't think of it like that...
Thank you for the answers. They really helped.
(Thanks so much for taking the time and making the effort to answer all of our questions, Panno. You're the best thing on TH-cam)
Here is my question for your next Q&A:
My brother, a white American, married a Japanese woman and they are now living in Hawaii. My brother says that every now and then he experiences some anti-white sentiment either from the native Hawaiians or from other Asians that moved to Hawaii from places like the Philippines. They even have a disparaging term for white people called 'haole' in Hawaii.
My question is about whether you experienced any anti-white racism during your time in Asia (either while working on ships in Japan, as a monk in Burma, or during any of your other travels). You have previously mentioned being gawked at by villagers and such while in Burma. Can you recount any more overtly hostile experiences of being singled out for being white while in Asia?
Thanks,
Romeo
😅😂... YOU, Grasshopper was the "farter". 😊 😮
I think the answer would be the same: He would glaze at another man in front of him and maybe say "those tacos, never again" 😅
Do you have knowledge of Western monks still bein in Burma since the civil war ? Have they all left the country ?
As a follow up questions, did you experience conflicts between the ethnics groups during your stay in Burma ?
Are monks allowed to drive? Obviously in the Pali canon, there arent any mentions of modern day transportation, but what is your opinion on this subject? Were you allowed to drive by car, motorcycle, boat, etc.?
Venerable Pañño, beacon of wisdom for us entangled muddled beings, my short essay followed by 3 questions is the following:
You have said that practicing Dhamma in the laylife is like playing samsara on a higher difficulty setting. Despite my strong yearning to renounce the world externally by becoming a monk, I think in my case the worldly life presents a fruitful ground for progressing towards enlightenment (at least in this life; for reasons I needn't get into). I think the degree of mental renunciation possible, monk or not, may be the same for me. It's like I see my present karma, my thoughts, interests, etc., and the monastic existence may be counterproductive and may result in dwelling in regrets. As Ricard puts it "like the fruit from the tree that has not fully rippened". I have assessed for myself that I should do like the Hindus, and renounce the world (externally, completely, as a wandering beggar) at an older age.
I have to admit that framing the worldy life as "a higher difficulty setting" has been quite beneficial, an insightful perspective, and played an important role in my confidence for being able to follow the path. Before I thought: unless I wasn't a monk, I couldn't practice "advanced Dhamma". But I think the paradox of enlightenment makes wordly life in my case actually a more appropriate form.
My questions are:
1.- Could you speak on how a layperson can achieve enlightenment?
2.- Are there advantages for a being layperson -within certain conditions- compared to being a monk to seeing nibbana?
3.- Could having "imperfect Sila" breaking some of the 5 (mainly the 5th) or 8 precepts help one to see the 3 marks of existence? For example, very occasionally drinking, having sex, listening to music... without desire. One may be able to investigate how much suffering comes from these, how useless they are, instead of taking a vow to not do these things without having understood it beforehand. Maybe it could help in working out the karma such that one would gain "perfect sila" by seeing, in contrast to "artificially emulating perfect sila", and getting stuck.
Your thoughts are always beneficial,
Thanks in advance, Ven. P
Q1: You've said before that the only meditation you do is humming Ommm at work. Now that you have aquarium do you do "watching fish meditation"?
If the Buddha reincarnated today, what would he be most appalled and pleased by regarding the state of Buddhism today, in your opinion? Thank you for answering!
Hello, sorry to hear about he job situation, hope it will get better soon.
Please talk about modern psyhology and how and if it clashes with Buddhas teachings and point of view?
Explain second samyojana, give more fatefull transtation and few examples?
Very interesting, would you mind expanding and elaborating more on scientific materialism?
In his book Philosophical Dharma, he bashes Scientism many many times. It's a great read!
I'd be happy to wait until the next Q&A so you can answer that question in the video.
Well, I already answered it in the description below the video
MAY I chip in.. It seems like it is a song about a Monk whoe go to Asia.
how many two-factor authentications until i reach enlightenment?
What's the situation with polygamy in Myanmar? I've heard that its technically illegal, but not enforced.
Is Nirohdo Samapatti the death of the life stream? Is it in effect the death of the individual jiva?
Venerable Sir, in regards to the fear, did you overcome the fear of death as a monk?
you say that there's no such thing as "Rights", except to defend themselves? 😊 intentions unweighted
I've been studying Mormonism and the concept of exaltation kind of reminds me of Nirvana. Mormons believe that if you are righteous enough you will eventually become a god just like Elohim and rule over your own planet. Many Buddhists believe that you will not obtain Nirvana until after death. I even saw in an LDS video where the man said that if he had to renounce Mormonism he would join Buddhism. Obviously it's not the same but do you see any similarities or am I mistaken?
Hello Pañño, I've been thinking about the incompatibilities between Dhamma and Marxism (of which there are many, including materialism), so what's your take on the following: if karma is personal and not transmissible, couldn't it be seen as an extreme form of private property (like, in a certain sense, the body is) ?
When the Venerable Pannobhasa was born did he come out of his mother's womb walk around and talk about how great he is to the doctors and that this is his final rebirth?
rejoice rejoice rejoice
Jed McKenna's second book talks about how Moby Dick is actually an enlightenment tale. It's Melville's literal process in novel form.
But you don't like Jed so nevermind that.
Q3: Apart from using money, what "major" rule is the hardest to follow?
1. It seems to me that on a Buddhist framework, moral worth is just a made up concept and that ultimately there exists no moral worth only intention, action and consequence (kamma) would you agree?
2. I'm sure someone has asked this before but I haven't seen it directly asked: why did you disrobe?
3. I have a tendency (my whole life) to go to the extremes in my thinking (everything is pointless to everything is amazing) and tend to obsess over things, when I get interested in something I quickly become obsessed, almost unable to think about anything else, any advice?
Nothing is permanent as we know as buddhists. But isn't morality sort of permanent, as a universal pattern?
Speaking from my own experience, I cannot will my morality or feelings to be this way, or that way. They follow their own rules. Like Raskolnikov in Crime & Punishment, one can rationalize murder but cannot escape the mental consequences- the moral weight and significance of it. So in one way, morality seems like a ''set pattern'' that you either align with, or don't. But at the same time, the notion that there is a single ''set in stone'' morality for all beings, seems wrong... considering that we all, to put it simply, have different opinions and moral dispositions.
Its a complex topic but I would appreciate hearing any thoughts you have on this. Thank you!
Q2: Do following the monastic rules require a lot of self discipline or maybe when one lives in the monastery its quite easy?
People really should not record their videos just after sex 😅