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Re: No Buddhist Quotes

"An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it"
~Ludwig Wittgenstein~

Shoshin1

Re: Fear of Existing

Just Existing is something to be feared. However, to live takes courage; to live takes action. To exist is to be like a small stick floating, carried by the river, just passively going where the river and it's currents send it. To live is to be in a canoe paddling upon the river to travel where you want to go.
Summery: Life is the river
the stick is merely existing
Paddling the canoe is living

Peace to all

Lionduck

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_paradox

Ah 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.