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Re: Fear of Existing
Fear demon, meeting and engaging as protector …
https://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/science-of-mind/emotional-hygiene/feeding-and-taming-the-demon-of-fear
lobster
Re: Healthy Habits
@lobster said:
The French Paradox
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_paradoxAh ha! Makes sense.
- Rather than butter in the summer I like to use coconut oil for spreading on toast …
- The French love their food. Metta again …
- Some other tips worth acknowledging.
It's a fallacy. The cause of coronary problems is not those fats. It's carbohydrate/starch sugars.
The Body produces both HDL and LDL Cholesterols.
Both are essential for the adequate and correct function of the brain. Your brain is fed by cholesterol.
Your Body isn't going to produce adequate amounts of a compound that is bad for you/going to kill you.
Now, according to doctors, LDL is "bad" cholesterol.
Why? because if a person consumes high levels of sugars, the sugars, normally stored in the liver, are diffused into the bloodstream. When you eat too much sugar, your liver makes more LDL while lowering the amount of HDL in your body. The extra calories from a sugary diet also leads to more of something called triglycerides, a type of blood fat that plays a role in your cholesterol health.
LDL Combines with the triglycerides and creates the destructive and unhealthy platelets that line arteries and thicken to inhibit, block blood-flow. You can have high levels of LDL and HDL, without either level affecting your health one little bit, AS LONG AS YOUR TRIGLYCERIDES ARE AT NORMAL LEVELS.
Take it from me. Been there, done that, put my Dr in his place.
federica
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
"Assuming the worst in others, will show our worst character, assuming the best in others is always the best course of action"
Superior Judge Timothy Walmsley
Kotishka
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
— Socrates
Jeroen
Re: Buddhist Slogans
Shit happens ( Dukkha & Karma)
Here we go again (Rebirth)
I'll be back (Rebirth)
Many happy returns ( Re-birthdays)
Shoshin1
Re: The inspiration in Buddhism
Kindness that @Kotishka mentions is the ultimate relaxation/peace generation practice.
Be at peace with:
- Breath
- Mind
- Body
- Surroundings
Gently, gently does it …
lobster
Re: the Broken Buddhas
@lobster said:
I spend my time trying to break myself into manageable chunks. Relaxing them into nothing. Being ordinary.
Perhaps this will help.
“No thought is truthful, or carries a part of reality.”
— Adyashanti, The End of Your World
All thoughts are about models, like language an approach to the truth without actually being it. The name ‘glass of water’ cannot be carried to one’s lips and drunk, the label ‘red’ is not the actual colour. Like mathematics it is an abstraction which cannot truthfully describe reality. Mathematics says one plus one is two, reality says one is just unique, there is ultimately no two.
Once this is understood, your relationship to mind and to reality will change dramatically.
The mind also defines our sense of self. Once you realise that thoughts are basically untruthful, you realise that ‘thinking that you are something’ is akin to seeing an abstraction again, something representative of real being. You are not that which you think you are.
Jeroen