Questions include: whether Taoist enlightenment and Buddhist enlightenment are the same; the purpose of American birthright citizenship; the significance of American Independence Day and the semiquincentennial; neo-Luddite movements against AI; Alan Watts; telling coworkers about my past as a monk; the lives of ex-monastics I have known; do more advanced monks become more free-thinking; astrology; changing one’s personality traits; ancient attitudes towards negativity; George Orwell’s Burmese Days; worldly analogies to the Simile of the Raft; how I met my sweetheart; possibly the wisest person I ever met; shocking experiences as a monk in 21st century America; why become a monk; goal oriented Dhamma; Aldous Huxley and Brave New World; why I am not a Christian (or: why I don’t think Christianity is true); and why a person who leans towards Buddhism maybe should not convert to Roman Catholicism.

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MY NEW BOOK, “Memoirs from Myanmar: the Path of an Incendiary Buddhist Monk”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSFGPPR6?ref=sp_email

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current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/

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MY 1st BOOK, “Essays in Theravada Buddhism”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096ZHKY9D

ALSO, MY OTHER BOOK, “Philosophical Dharma”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1624827134&s=books&sr=1-1

3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860