Ask a Monk (Part 2)
By Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu
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This is the second part of a collection of answers given by Ven. Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu regarding various questions related to a Buddhist and/or Satipatthana Meditation practitioner on his YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/yuttadhammo. Ven. Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu is a Canadian-born Theravada Buddhist monk, ordained in 2001 under the guidance of Venerable Ajaan Tong Sirimangalo. He has taught meditation courses in the Mahasi Sayadaw tradition since 2003 and gives online teachings via YouTube, as well as Dhamma talks to both intensive meditators and by invitation to the general public.
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Will Meditation Help Diminish The Ego?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Fear Of Loss
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Communicating With Destructive Parents
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Do Arahants Know Everything About Reality?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Can There Be Desire That Isn't Harmful?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Subvocalizing Experience
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Should Life Be A Meditation?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Right And Wrong Without Purpose or Value
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Drawing Awareness To A Thought
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Ridding Oneself of Songs in the Head
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Does the Mind Have a Gender
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Vipassana Meditation at the Nostrils
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Peripheral Awareness of Thoughts
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Noting in the Head
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Meditation
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Will Meditation Help With Worldly Pursuits?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Forcing Vs. Following
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Balance Between Spirituality and Worldly Pursuits
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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The Body Is Unnatural
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Why Am I Attached to Suffering?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Working Through Guilt
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Is Mindfulness Enough
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Contact, Feeling, and Craving
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Angry People
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Love and Compassion
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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The Untenable Self
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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The Materialistic Path
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Need For Sleep
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Pain and Self-Torture
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Wisdom From a Pleasant Glow
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Cause of Ignorance
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Bad Parents
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Samatha Meditation
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Monastic Discouragement
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Friendship
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Low Self-Esteem
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Letting Go of Things That Cause Us Pain
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Studying Jhanas and Mindfulness Before Vipassana
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Tolerance
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Belief in Reincarnation and Nibbana
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Forcing Vs. Folllowing
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Recommended Meditation Method
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Dealing With Complacency
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Why Don't We Hear About Enlightened Beings Today?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Cause of Pleasure vs. Pain
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Genius and Past Lives
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Keeping Buddhist Holy Days
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Meeting With Buddhism Next Life
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Working Out Family Issues
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Meeting and Interacting With Monastics
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Intentionally Bringing Up Issues
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Scanning and Noting
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Remote Visions of Dying Relatives
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Swallowing
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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What To Do If There is No Teacher Nearby?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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How To Know What is Moral and Immoral?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Severe Mental Illness
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Prior Knowledge of Knowledge
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Walking and Sitting
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Cause of Samsara
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Formally Taking a Teacher
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Joining Other Buddhist Traditions
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Love and Attachment
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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What Brings Happiness
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Ordination and Family
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Joy of Insight
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Chanda vs. Tanha
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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A Victim's Satisfaction with Karma
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Holding On To Realizations
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Watching Body Vs. Mind
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Crying
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Clairvoyance
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Abhidhamma Pitaka and Vipassana
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Both Samatha & Vipassana
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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What If Nibbana is False?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Closing Words
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Pain for Enlightened Beings
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Permission For Spreading Dhamma
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Gifts to a Monastery
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Shrinking the Ego
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Multitasking Mind
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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A Good Reason to Ordain
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Giving Alms
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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CombiningMeditations
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Pursuing Thoughts Mindfully
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Valid Meditation Objects
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Fearful Thoughts
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Do Buddhists Believe in Chi?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Fear of Romance
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Falling Over
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Becoming More Loving
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Wants Vs. Needs
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Teaching in Schools
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Happiness vs. Freedom From Suffering
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Expressing Disapproval
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Finding New Friends
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Mahasi Sayadaw Books
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Buddhist Astrology
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Yawning
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Listening Mindfully
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Alienation Through Meditation
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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End of Life Time
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Transferring Merit, Connecting With Deceased
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Here To Help
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Threat of Ugliness
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Choosing One Type of Buddhism
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Finding Truth Within
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Nervousness in Class
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Choosing Labels
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Secular Mindfulness
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Point to Unmeditative Life?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Removing Anxiety Completely
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Temporary Enlightenment
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Is Staying With the Breath Samatha?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Materialists and Rebirth
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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The Switch of Mindfulness
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Is Nirvana a Place?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Theistic Interruption
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Controlling Too Much
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Motivation
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Realizing You're Wrong
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Alcohol
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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What is Real?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Art in Buddhism
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Wisdom, Suffering, and Reality
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Coming to Practice Through Happiness or Suffering
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Can A Murderer Become Enlightened
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Attachment to Becoming a Monk
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Strange Experiences in Meditation
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Dualism in Quantum Physics
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Which Foundation of Mindfulness
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Premarital Ordination
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Guidance for Enlightened Beings
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Not Feeling the Body
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Goals in Meditation
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Divorce Conflict
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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That Which Has Not Been Experienced
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Fear of Freedom
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Removing Anxiety
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Do I Have Free Will?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Benefit of Pacceka Buddhas
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Generating Motivation
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Impermanence and Nibbana
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Understanding vs. Happiness
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Uselessness of Everything
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Stress in Dreams
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Do Good and Bad Exist?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Putting Desires to Use
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Living Without Desires
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Is It Good To Give Up?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Unexpected Aspects of Ordination
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Balancing Normal Life and Meditation
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Experiencing Nibbana
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Progress Against Depression
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Death vs. Nibbana
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Politics
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Ethics and Age
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Mindfulness on a Busy Day
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Vipassana Without Momentary Concentration
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Accepting Yourself
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Irregular Heart Beat
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Fairy Tales
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Removing Wrong Thoughts
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Notion of God
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Difference Between Meditation and Prayer
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Fear Upon Losing Awareness
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Are Asubha Conceptual?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Progressing in Daily Life
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Appearance of the Buddha
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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How You See The Buddha
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Social Issues
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Practicing Satipatthana or Vipassana
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Contemplation on Impermanence, Suffering and Non-Self
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Once-returner and Non-returner
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Dealing With Proselytizing
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Avoiding Attraction
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Relaxing in Life
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Mindfulness Without Noting
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Calming Down, Panic Attack
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Brain and Mind
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Fear of Death
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Fear of Telling the Truth
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Gradual Transition to Monasticism
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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The Part Music Plays
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Buddhist Riots
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Is Becoming Sotapanna Gradual or Spontaneous?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Too Many Questions
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Is Control and Illusion?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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All That Exists
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Giving Up
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Holy Rapture
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Truth Hurts
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Gaining Nothing
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Realizing Your Fetters
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Spouses
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Formal Determinations
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Thailand
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Learning Pali
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Letting Go of the Future
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Regrettable Vows
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Importance of Traditions
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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How Much Must We Note?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Accepting Change
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Attachment and Love in Relationships
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Christian Happiness and Enlightenment
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Contemplation of Dukkha
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Sexual Relationships in Buddhism
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Monks Clinging to the Internet
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Practice Before a Retreat
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Higher and Lower Attainments
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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An Enlightened Teacher
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Meditation for Anxious People
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Repression of Emotions
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Worshipping the Buddha
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Distractions at Work
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Answering Questions
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Distracted by Seeing Cause and Effect
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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The Hippie Culture
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Desire and Guilt
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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How Much to Donate After a Retreat?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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What is Noting?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Justified Violence
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Nimitta, Access Concentration, Kasina
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Increasing Viriya (Effort)
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Effectiveness of Walking Meditation
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Trying to Be Equanimous
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Where To Start For Enlightenment
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Experience of Wisdom
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Buddhism and God
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Minimum Daily Meditation For Enlightenment
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Taking the Same Meditation Course Again
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Derealization
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Lucid Dreams vs. Reality
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Religious Travel
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Analyzing Sexuality
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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How Good Acts Bring Good Results
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Dealing With Social Pressure
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Where Do Old Monks Go?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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After Ordination
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Moving From Object to Object
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Middle Way vs. Moderate Way
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Writing Out Suttas
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Buddhist Prophets
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Karma vs. Probability
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Disrobing and Lay Life
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Procrastination
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Depression from Illness
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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How to Know When Meditation is Working
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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The Goal of Meditation
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Thinking and Living
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Activities of the Buddha
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Advanced Meditation Techniques
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Meditation Techniques of the Buddha
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Supressing Emotions
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Finding Peace and Happiness
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Our Practice With Ajaan Tong
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Solving the World's Problems
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Fear and Anger
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Clear Comprehension, Direct Understanding, Mindfulness
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Non-Self and Reincarnation
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Christian Meditators Feeling Jesus and God
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Giving Up Noting
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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32 Parts of the Body
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Importance of Metta
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Taking Nibbana as an Object
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Anger, Mindfulness and Repression
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Scientific Testing of Arahants
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Monks, Meditators, Yogis
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Meditation Courses with Mental Illnesses
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Buddhism and Non-Dualism
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Meditate On This
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Families and Ordination
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Married Monks
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Learning From Other Schools
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Monks and Novices
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Killing One To Save One Thousand
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Retreats for New Meditators
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Getting A Life
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Paying For Retreats
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Tantric Sex
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Nibbana and Heaven
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Disturbing Vibrations
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Monks and Music
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Inability to Do A Retreat
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Aspirations and Ordinations
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Interview With a Meditator (Yasa)
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Do You Have to Let Go of Anything?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Ordination With a Medical Condition
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Monks and Ill Parents
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Hand on the Stomach
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Describing One's Practice To Others
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Buddhism and Other Religions
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Short Retreats
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Ordination and Enlightenment
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Jobs for Monks
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Inability to Tame the Mind
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Three Pathways to Liberation
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Ordination Insurance
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Buddhist Traditions and Lineages
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Monastics Learning Secular Laws
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Oct 07, 2020 |