Question & Answer #206: from Dealing with a Celibate Spouse to My Favorite Ethnic Food(?)

Questions include: what to do if one’s wife doesn’t like sex; troubles with organic evolution; more on the ethics of lying; karma as a mental state; why sobriety can be less pleasant than drunkenness (even though one sees reality more clearly); the ethics of sarcasm; enlightened beings owning cell phones; cases in which people were openly disrespectful to the Buddha, and how he dealt with it; what Trump will do with Iran; the (largely western) attempts to revive the Bhikkhuni Sangha as a sign of western supremacism or dominance; does everything happen for the best in the grand scheme of things; what if one’s Buddhist practice is all wrong; the Questions of King Milinda; how I came up with the simile of the block of marble; the Dhammapada; scientific theories about the distant past; do I follow Buddha’s teachings; do bhikkhus always wear monastic robes; is Samsara eternal; The Sopranos; the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism; explaining “mature souls” or “old souls” in Dhamma and Dharma; dangerous Asian women; my wife and meditation; “the time I was attacked by ogres”; and my favorite ethnic food. URL Links MY NEW BOOK, “Memoirs from Myanmar: the Path of an Incendiary Buddhist Monk”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSFGPPR6?... Link tree: https://linktr.ee/pannobhasa current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.bl... website: pannobhasa.org Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/67rZ... Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/user/PoliticallyIn... YouTube channel:    / @pannobhasa   SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philoso... Discord server (mainly for traditionalist and eclectic Buddhist discussions and networking): link available on request X, alias Twitter:   / pannobhasasc   Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Panno... CashApp: $pannobhasa 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/... 3rd BOOK, “Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Practice”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991DQBLZ?...