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As people try for unique yoga poses, the risks are getting higher and higher for serious injury, if not death. This week, a Mexican college student survived an 80-foot fall after practicing an extreme yoga pose on her building's sixth-floor balcony, according to the New York Post.
Twenty-three-year-old Alexa Terrazas, who studies health and nutrition at Tecnológico de Monterrey, slipped from the balcony railing last Saturday and landed on the pavement outside her apartment in the northeastern state of Nuevo León, the Post reported while quoting local media outlets.
The college student had reportedly performed similar death-defying poses on the the guardrail before but nearly died after falling and suffering fractures to her legs, arms, hip and head. She was taken to the hospital, where she underwent an 11-hour procedure that required doctors to "reconstruct" her legs. As of Monday, Terrazas remained in critical condition. Doctors said they believe it could take up to three years for the 23-year-old to walk again.
Twenty-three-year-old Alexa Terrazas, who studies health and nutrition at Tecnológico de Monterrey, slipped from the balcony railing last Saturday and landed on the pavement outside her apartment in the northeastern state of Nuevo León, the Post reported while quoting local media outlets.
The college student had reportedly performed similar death-defying poses on the the guardrail before but nearly died after falling and suffering fractures to her legs, arms, hip and head. She was taken to the hospital, where she underwent an 11-hour procedure that required doctors to "reconstruct" her legs. As of Monday, Terrazas remained in critical condition. Doctors said they believe it could take up to three years for the 23-year-old to walk again.
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passion pray.
With passion make love.
With passion eat and drink and dance and play.
Why look like a dead fish
in this ocean
of God? - Rumi
passion pray.
With passion make love.
With passion eat and drink and dance and play.
Why look like a dead fish
in this ocean
of God? - Rumi
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Tread lightly on this Earth. Be kind to all creatures.
Live simply. Consume less. Avoid air travel. Find alternatives to car travel.
Delight in a vegetarian diet. Grow your own food if possible.
Use water sparingly. Lobby for a saner, healthier world.
—Georg and Brenda Feuerstein
Live simply. Consume less. Avoid air travel. Find alternatives to car travel.
Delight in a vegetarian diet. Grow your own food if possible.
Use water sparingly. Lobby for a saner, healthier world.
—Georg and Brenda Feuerstein
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Author Minal Hajratwala's first meditation teacher was her father. They had a close bond. She was eighteen the first time her father needed open heart surgery; twenty-nine the second time; and forty-nine when doctors admitted nothing more could be done for her father.
As she watched his decline she recalled "what arose in me at last was gratitude, not as a practice but as a fruit of practice. Gratitude for the years we’d had together and the karma that allowed us to be together at the end. Gratitude for the medications and comforts afforded us by the great privilege of our place (a palace, by the standards of much of human history). And gratitude for these powerful practices, great lineages of teachers, our robust and diverse sanghas persisting through the flames of war and roars of beasts: a triple jewel which never tires of offering us refuge."
As she watched his decline she recalled "what arose in me at last was gratitude, not as a practice but as a fruit of practice. Gratitude for the years we’d had together and the karma that allowed us to be together at the end. Gratitude for the medications and comforts afforded us by the great privilege of our place (a palace, by the standards of much of human history). And gratitude for these powerful practices, great lineages of teachers, our robust and diverse sanghas persisting through the flames of war and roars of beasts: a triple jewel which never tires of offering us refuge."
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You cannot make your body flexible just by thinking about making it flexible. You can only do that by training it. The body has to make the body flexible. - Lama Zopa
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As long as we believe that happiness has to come from outside, from other people or from the external environment, we will always blame something outside whenever we have a problem. - Lama Zopa
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Consider yourself a tourist. Think of the world as it is seen from space, so small and insignificant yet so beautiful. Could there really be anything to be gained from harming others during our stay here? - Dalai Lama 14th
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This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need. So long as we practice these in our daily lives, then no matter if we are learned or unlearned, whether we believe in Buddha or God, or follow some other religion or none at all, as long as we have compassion for others and conduct ourselves with restraint out of a sense of responsibility, there is no doubt we will be happy.
- Ethics For The New Millinneum, by the Dalai Lama
- Ethics For The New Millinneum, by the Dalai Lama
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A meditation teacher is part of an emergency rescue operation, like when police, paramedics, and rescue workers go in with sirens blaring, red and blue lights flashing, helicopters whirling overhead with search lights - to help people drowning in danger and distress. - Lama Zopa
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REASONS TO MEDITATE
Mental health
Elevation
Discernment
Inspiration
Transformation
Acceptance
Tranquility
Endurance
- Victor M. Parachin
Mental health
Elevation
Discernment
Inspiration
Transformation
Acceptance
Tranquility
Endurance
- Victor M. Parachin