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A short list of Buddhist-y advice on eating. It might not apply due to radical changes in what we understand about health and the difference in effective practice for a beggar-monk and a layperson: 1… (View Post)
Zen is Japanese Chan, which is the Chinese way of pronouncing jhana, which in turn means something like "meditative absorption" Zen is also a Kamakura era so-called "single practice&qu… (View Post)
(Quote) Omnivores eat a diet centered on meat, with some miscellaneous plant matter so they have enough fiber to poop. If you drop the meat and eat only miscellaneous fibrous matter (iceberg lettuce … (View Post)
The six realms cosmology has accounting problems. Math gets weird when infinities are involved and the orthodox six realms cosmology said there is an infinite amount of time and nearly infinite being… (View Post)
I don't follow how arithmetic matters here. It sounds like some sort of "two truths" (conventional and ultimate) sort of argument, which it seems is a big thing in Buddhist philosophy. Conv… (View Post)