1995-11-16 (edited April 2024).

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Questions and answers

Q1 – When someone we love dies young, how can we understand it in a way that really helps?

29:50 Q2 – Could you say something about the nature of taṇhā and how it differs from other kinds of desire?

44:58 Q3 – There are some traditions I think in Japan where monks can get married. Would you say that they don’t develop awareness in the same way? Or would you say that they could use the sexual experience to develop awareness?

46:55 Q4 Question indistinct

49:39 Q5 Question lost in static and deleted

49:49 Q6 (follow up) But in the experience of sex there can be desirelessness.

50:45 Q7 (Sex) can be quite a spiritual experience too, enhancing in spirit rather than just gratifying on the sexual side.

55:18 Q8 Can you say something about why it is that some of the most enlightened people in this century have been so strongly against the practice of Buddhism?

01:00:41 Q9 Where does God tie into the religious life experience?

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