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Index of Questions:
00:00 - INTRODUCTION
00:29 - METTA VS COMPASSION: Can you explain the difference between lovingkindness and compassion meditation? Which would be the best to start practicing as a person just started this journey?
15:36 - EQUANIMITY WITH PHYSICAL PAIN: Recently I had a migraine headache and decided to keep my equanimity. But after an hour, the headache intensified and ended in vomiting, then I decided to take painkillers. Accepting emotional pain or letting go of anger is very easy, but how can one maintain equanimity during physical pain without any suffering?
23:06 - THE MIND-MADE BODY - Is “The body within the body”, a feature of having bodies in general, all the same for humans and all other beings? And does this body also go through birth, aging and death with the physical body and is unique to each body in each lifetime? Does it have its own aggregates or it is a subset of the original five aggregates?
28:47 - BEYOND SUCCESS & FAILURE: I am alone and most media nowadays involves content that amplifies the ego and a low self-worth especially in terms of friendships, dating and mastering a skill that I have tried to improve but failed. When I try to meditate, my mind tells me a negative story, that I will fail and I am just coping to escape from reality. How can we override this self-tyranny and instil self-confidence in this lonely situation?
35:39 - LEARNING A SKILL: Can the practice and discipline of playing an instrument serve as a handicap or preliminary practice to full-time meditation eventually?
38:48 - GENOCIDE - Can the incidents of genocide in Buddhist majority countries like Myanmar (Burma) and Sri Lanka be seen as a failure of Buddhism at some level or just the failure of people in power?
48:40 - GENDER FLUIDITY & ORDINATION: From a Buddhist perspective, gender fluidity over several lifetimes is a no-brainer. But what about one lifespan? Can people change their gender? For example: Can a trans man become a monk?
