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We must all face the reality that we have no control over birth, old age, illness, and death.
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A recent study published in the Journal of Neurology supports the tradtional yogic diet - which is vegetarian ( that means no meat including fish). Here is what researchers concluded: "People who eat a diet rich in nuts, vegetables and soy may have a lower risk of stroke than those who eat meat and fish."
Here's another thought: I often hear from people who want to meditate and do yoga regularly but just can't establish the routine or generate the discipline. It makes me wonder if their diet (almost always non-vegetarian or semi-vegetarian) is getting in the way. Without exception serious yogis and meditators have embraced a completely vegetarian diet.
Consider this Vedic insight: How can he practice true compassion who eats the flesh of an animal to fatten his own flesh?
- Tirukural 251
Here's another thought: I often hear from people who want to meditate and do yoga regularly but just can't establish the routine or generate the discipline. It makes me wonder if their diet (almost always non-vegetarian or semi-vegetarian) is getting in the way. Without exception serious yogis and meditators have embraced a completely vegetarian diet.
Consider this Vedic insight: How can he practice true compassion who eats the flesh of an animal to fatten his own flesh?
- Tirukural 251
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Whatever you may fail to guard, guard well your tongue, for flawed speech unfailingly invokes anguish and affliction. - Tirukural – 127
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Much suffering is brought about by wrong speech. Wrong speech is speech that does not have openness, that does not have understanding, compassion and reconciliation. - Thich Nhat Hanh
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It has been rightly observed that if you compare America with the rest of the world, it is very impressive. If you compare it to Utopia, it is awful. - Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
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I've come to realize that the world isn't going to collapse if you stumble. In fact, tripping and falling and thrashing now and then are good things, because those mistakes allow us to relate to one another more empathetically. - Amy Robach
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Andrea Miller, deputy editor of Lion’s Roar Magazine recently interviewed Thich Nhat Hanh asking him: “What would you say to someone who finds sitting meditation painful and difficult and they struggle to do it?” The Vietnamese Buddhist monk’s answer is surprising. He said, “Don’t do it!” and then added this explanation:
“If you don’t find it pleasant to sit, don’t sit. You have to learn the correct spirit of sitting. If you make a lot of effort when you sit, you become tense and that creates pain all over your body. Sitting should be pleasant. When you turn on the television in your living room, you can sit for hours without suffering. Yet when you sit for meditation, you suffer. Why? Because you struggle. You want to, succeed in your meditation, and so you fight. When you are watching television you don’t fight. You have to learn how to sit without fighting. If you know how to sit like that, sitting is very pleasant.”
“If you don’t find it pleasant to sit, don’t sit. You have to learn the correct spirit of sitting. If you make a lot of effort when you sit, you become tense and that creates pain all over your body. Sitting should be pleasant. When you turn on the television in your living room, you can sit for hours without suffering. Yet when you sit for meditation, you suffer. Why? Because you struggle. You want to, succeed in your meditation, and so you fight. When you are watching television you don’t fight. You have to learn how to sit without fighting. If you know how to sit like that, sitting is very pleasant.”
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It is very natural in our lives to get and lose something. - Book of the Dharma
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Zen meditation is often referred to as “practice” because we never get good at it. - Koshin Paley Ellison