Summary: Dhamma on Air #20: Relics, Passions, Dreams, and Aliens Corresponding video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1by6-YINvc Dhamma Question uestions answered: Question 1: Why are beings born with different levels of passions? (Pride, Anger, Greed, and Lust) Question 2: Why do they realize early or late in their life the adverse effects of these passions? Question 3: What are the remaining Relics after Lord Buddha Gotama? Question 4: What is Bhante's idea about Dreams according to Buddhism? Question 5: If there were alien life in space how can and would they contact us? Would they contact some humans with special abilities? Is Buddhists a kind of ambassadors, mediators or translators to these life-forms? On the last days of the historical Buddha Siddhattha Gotama: Digha Nikaya #16: Maha-parinibbana Sutta — The Last Days of the Buddha: https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/dn/dn.16.1-6.vaji.html DN 16 as paperback: https://store.pariyatti.org/Last-Days-of-the-Buddha-BP213S_p_1469.html A fair Digha Nikaya translation by Maurice Walshe. http://store.pariyatti.org/Long-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_1542.html Buddha's Last Days: Buddhaghosa's Commentary on the Mahaparinibbana Sutta by Yang-Gyu An https://store.pariyatti.org/Buddhas-Last-Days-The_p_2377.html Analysis of DN16: Mission Accomplished http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/mission-accomplished.pdf All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Question uestions_and_Answers.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Question uestions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com
