Low-carb diets
There are different types of
low-carb diets and they generally
mean reducing the total amount
of carbs you consume in a day to
less than 130g.
Despite carrying around too much fat, you still feel hungry all the
time. That’s because you now have high insulin levels, which
encourage continuous fat storage. Which means there’s less fuel
around to keep the rest of your body going.
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B The attachment is a delusion. You can still love and cherish someone without being attached to them
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B Yes!! "I love you" is not the same as "I can't live without you"
Detaching does not mean not enjoying
The complete end of suffering, the letting go of all attachments is not done by force, is not done intellectually, is not done by beginners who has not studied and practise the dhamma properly and for a long time.
What you're doing now is a projection of what it is like to be freed from attachments. Do learn the dhamma.
Loving kindness is love without attachments. Normal love has suffering due to the attachments part. Uneducated (in the dhamma) people cannot seem to differentiate the components of love into loving kindness and attachments and abandon the attachments part.
And this abandoning is not done by force. It's done by wisdom, which is to see repeatedly how attachments causes suffering. Wisdom only arises after deep meditation, repeatedly, which relies on morality.
Protecting self from being hurt as you imagined it involves the delusion of self and aversion as the attitude, both not found in arahants who are freed from all attachments.
The arahants are freed from the deluded concept of self and have no aversion to anything. It's not possible to emulate arahants without having practised the dhamma for a long time.
It’s not protecting yourself from being hurt. It’s learning to not exacerbate it with unhealthy mental formations or cause it if it can be prevented. But it is not a no suffering cure all.
It’s learning to be more friendly with your human nature.
There is no “follow Buddhism and there will be no hurt” even the Buddha was sad at times.
Keep learning; studying and asking questions. This is one of those things that our intellectual brain looks at and says oh! I understand that. And in reality, in cannot be understood with the intellectual mind. There is paradox involved.
Just as an enlightened being can see the sadness in the suffering of the world, they can also know it is all perfect. Paradox. So in one plane they are suffering themselves, or being compassionate, but simultaneously on another plane they are in the bliss of nirvana.
Also, I’m sorry for the harshness in which your question was received with.
Enlightened ones do not feel sad.
Enlightenment is feeling all sorts of feelings but not being swept away by them.
Personally I feel that thinking one will be enlightened on earth and not feel feelings is an unattainable goal and understanding of enlightenment on this plane.
Now once one transcends samsara then yes I believe you are correct.
If an enlightened being sees NRDR brutally in front of them, they will have a natural response of sorrow. It’s how they deal with this that itself makes them enlightened
Feelings is not emotions.
Yes, I can agree that there can be unpleasant feelings felt by the enlightened ones.
But sadness is an emotion. It's additional layers of aversion, volition added on to the raw feelings. It's volitional formations.
Enlightened ones can have emotions of the 4 brahma viharas. So they are not robots.
Sorry, maybe I should just say enlightened ones do not experience sadness instead of feel sadness up there.
As Ajaan Suwat used to like to say: We all have one person, ourselves. So we should be responsible for that one person. We spend too much of our time trying to control things outside, and not enough can trying to control our minds. Because that's where the real control comes from, and it is effective. So be confident that, yes, your actions will make a difference. And as for your old ways of thinking about yourself, your old ways to think about the world, what you want out of the world: learn to get some distance from them. Realize the Buddha's giving you something much better to hold on to, otherwise you just hold on the bars of the cage. And you wonder why you're not satisfied.
Attachment, in the sense that Buddhism talks about is also called clinging, upadaya. The problem revealed in the Second Noble Truth is that we don't choose what or when to cling -- it is a habit of the mind that leads us around like an invisible leash. The point is to see it for what it is. We don't cling in a rational way, working out what kinds of actions are worth the effort is a smarter way to approach life. How many people do harm because they cling to pride? To money? To power? Look at the headlines, trying to change the world to suit your own pride never really works out.
We don't look to withdraw, we look to loosen our grip on things that don't bring us happiness. We look to examine our instincts wisely.
Non attachment doesn’t mean you have to “withdraw” in some way. It just means you no longer cling.
Attaching yourself to someone who is dear, while knowing the danger in that, is extreme.
There is no risk in removing that which puts you at risk.
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DWM Dr Robert Lustig, a renowned paediatric endocrinologist who has
treated thousands of overweight children, points out in his excellent
book, Fat Chance, that understanding insulin is crucial to understanding
obesity. ‘Insulin shunts sugar to fat. It makes your fat cells grow. The
more insulin the more fat.’
Maa saraswati is forms of Adishakti along with Maa Lakshmi.
The name Saraswati came from "saras" (meaning "flow") and "wati" (meaning "she who has ..."), i.e. "she who has flow" or can mean sara meaning "essence" and swa meaning "self". So, Saraswati is symbol of knowledge; its flow (or growth) is like a river and knowledge is supremely alluring, like a beautiful Goddess. She is depicted as beautiful fair Goddess with Four arms, wearing spotless white saree and seated on white lotus.
She is Goddess of wisdom (knowledge) , arts and music and speech .
I always like to dwell on the fact that I am the universe. I’m kind of kidding, but not really. Here’s why:
All sensation is a matter of thermodynamics. Every stimulus is energetic - be it in the form of a photon, a mechanical compression wave, or even a chemical reaction that governs gustation or olfaction. Either way, everything that contributes to awareness is energy.
However, what happens in reality is that everything we experience in the world is a consequence of our absorption of it. I’ve never seen light or heard sound, for example. By the time I’m aware of those things they have become my awareness. Their energies have been translated into neurophysiological processes such that the fusion of a photon with rhodopsin in my retinae makes it part of me. In fact, there is no way to separate these energies from the myriad musical motifs of our molecular biology that compose our consciousness. I am empowered and enlivened by light as well as legumes. The difference is merely metabolic proportion.
Hence, when Carl Sagan says ‘we are star-stuff’ he’s missing everything that is not matter. We are also the radiance of said stars, the crackle of thunder, and the scent of a lover’s perfume. Those environmental influences become us, and our awareness of them is comprised of everything they ever were.
Trippy enough, right? Who needs acid when you can literally meld with the Milky Way?
The non-identity problem refers to the difficulty in reconciling our intuition that impersonal actions can be morally good or bad, with the fact that they do not improve or worsen the lives of any specific people.
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LYF ENJOYED NOT ENDURED
A big part of your life is a result of the choices you make. And if you don’t like your life – if it completely lacks excitement and passion – it’s time to start making changes and better choices.
Life is to be enjoyed, not endured. You CAN follow a path that moves you. You are always free to do something small and positive that makes you happy.
There is good reason why you should wake each morning and mindfully consider what and who you will give your day to. Because unlike other things in life – money, entertainment, obligations, etc. – time is the one thing you can never get back once it’s gone.
It’s not what you say, but how you spend your time. If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
Your passion is an inherent part of you. Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about. Nothing you have that much passion for is ever a waste of time, no matter how it turns out in the long run.
When you focus your heart and mind upon a meaningful purpose, and commit yourself to fulfill that purpose a little bit every day, positive energy gradually floods into your life.
We have to stop telling ourselves that other people are our reason for being unhappy, unfulfilled, etc. They aren’t in the long run.
The more we fill our lives with genuine passion and purpose the less time and energy we’ll waste looking for approval and admiration from everyone else.
Your body may eventually grow tired, you may lie awake some nights listening to your past regrets, you may miss your only love, you may see the world around you overcome by negativity, or know your respect has been trampled on by unfriendly faces. There is only one thing for healing that works every time – to rediscover what excites you and then dive deeper into it. That’s the only positive effort that a battered mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or doubt, and never dream of regretting.
Just one small step today. That’s all. True purpose has no time limit. True passion has no deadline. Don’t stress and overwhelm yourself. Just do what you can right now – just the next smallest step on a meaningful path.
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Frontal Alpha Asymmetry in Children with Trauma Exposure
Sungjin Im, Skye Fitzpatrick et al.
Clin EEG Neurosci. 2022 Feb 7 15500594221076346 [Epub ahead of print]
The purpose of the current study was to investigate differences in frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) between children (5-17 years) with or without histories of trauma exposure. EEG data were obtained from 165 children who participated in the Healthy Brain Network Initiative during rest with eyes open and closed. FAA during resting-state electroencephalography was significantly more negative in the trauma-exposed group, suggesting greater left lateralized FAA and avoidance-oriented motivation. Moreover, alpha suppression (difference in alpha amplitude between eyes open and eyes closed conditions) was marginally greater in the trauma-exposed group. The results suggest that early exposure to trauma may be associated with trait-level avoidance of environmental stimuli, which ultimately may be predictive of psychopathology, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Study findings thus provide preliminary evidence of brain-based mechanisms that may confer risk for PTSD in the wake of early trauma exposure.
The distinctive fragrance of line-dried laundry is actually down to a photochemical reaction. This occurs when sunlight hits wet fabric and produces a range of aldehydes and ketones. They're organic compounds that have an ozonic smell, which our noses associate with “outdoor” freshness.
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. -Douglas Hofstadter, professor of cognitive science (b. 15 Feb 1945)
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According to a study, what you eat has a bigger impact on your health than any powerful drug when it comes to anti-aging.
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DWM Selenium is an essential nutrient found in many foods such as brazil nuts, eggs, long-grain brown rice, and milk.
Never lose your sense of wonder! How amazing is it that you are part of an ever expanding universe that is as old as time itself? Think of it this way: according to the Law of the Conservation of Mass, matter is neither created nor destroyed.
RG Firmly established in the Self, undisturbed by the least
ripple of thought, as still as an idol of stone or wood, dissolved
completely in Brahman-Self, even as water is in milk, with awareness
devoid of all impurities of thought and drowsiness, standing clear
as the pure sky, the grandeur of the Jnani’s nishta (firm stance in the
Self) defies thought and expression. (Ch.19, v.21)
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Birth, life, and death are but old superstitions. None was ever born, none will ever die; one changes one’s position – that is all. Try to think of yourself as dead, and you will see that you are present to see your own dead body. The whole universe, therefore, is a unit, from whatever standpoint you view it. Just now, to us, this universe is a unit of Prana and Akasha, force and matter.
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THOUGHTS- VIKALPA
VISUDDHA VIKALPA- I M SHIVA
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B Compassion in the Face of Impermanence
Change is the very nature of life. Whenever things begin to feel stable or solid in our lives, we can be sure that the winds of change will blow again, leading us back into the unknown.
The Buddha taught that the fleeting nature of our experience, when embraced, can become the doorway to an awakened heart.
One night, long, long ago, I sat in a meditation hall. It was the last meditation period of the day, the hall was dark, only one candle burned at the altar. I sat in darkness and the darkness expanded, it expanded into a limitless, boundless, seamless space. I’ve experienced that space before, the place where all forms vanish and there is only presence, only being, but this time there was a form there: a little flea.
In this formless, limitless, boundless space I saw a little flea. The flea was hopping up and down in great agitation. Looking closer, I realized that the flea wasn’t just hopping, it was pulling, it was tugging and yanking at the space, trying to tear a bit of it out of the seamless whole. As I looked, I realized that the flea was my mind. I realized that I am seeing my mind trying to tear a bit of reality so that it could have it for it’s own, so that it would be separate, distinct, clearly defined. But it couldn’t do it.
No matter how frantically, how desperately the little flea-mind tried to to tear a bit of reality for itself, no matter how much it tried to separate a bit of that space from the rest of it, it couldn’t do it. Reality would not tear, the space would not separate into pieces. It remained seamless, boundless, endless.
The mind wants to be distinct, it wants to be it’s own, separate entity. It wants to be it’s own person. It wants it’s own body, clearly defined, clearly delineated. It wants it’s own bit of awareness, clearly defined, clearly delineated. But it can’t have it. The mind can’t have it’s own, separate being, because reality will not be torn into bits and pieces. Awareness can’t be separated into individual chunks, so that every mind can have their own. Consciousness can’t be divided among humans, so that each can have their own, separate, distinct soul.
I saw my mind trying to do it, trying to get it, and it couldn’t. It wouldn’t work. Reality would not tear.
Mata Lakshmi is the goddess of wealth, fortune, power, luxury, beauty, fertility, and auspiciousness. She holds the promise of material fulfilment and contentment. She is described as restless, whimsical yet maternal, with her arms raised to bless and to grant. For centuries Hindus have invoked her thus
Beautiful goddess seated on a chariot, Delighted by songs on lustful elephants, Bedecked with lotuses, pearls and gems, Lustrous as fire, radiant as gold, Resplendent as the sun, calm as the moon, Mistress of cows and horses — Take away poverty and misfortune Bring joy, riches, harvest and children.
In India, Hindus adore Mata Lakshmi and consider their daughters as an embodiment of Mata Lakshmi because Mata Lakshmi is considered very auspicious, brought good luck and bestows rich/power. She takes away all the misfortunes of a person so calling his daughter as “Lakshmi” will surely benefit him. Therefore, in India people call every girl as “Lakshmi”.
[caritrena], looks after the welfare of all in this
world [sarva-bhütesu-hitah] as well as the
next. He wishes Ravana, his greatest enemy well
and wishes him heaven after death. He knows all
about atman, anatman, etc. has the skill of
social behaviour and of ruling the subjects and
is therefore known as samartha, is attractive,
always remains beautiful and whose body is
uniformly good-looking [eka priya darsanah].
Another view is that Rama is a person who is
good-looking to only one individual. But what
purpose does this interpretation serve?
Rama is atmavan that is one who has control
over his desires and senses anethas conquered
his mind. He is described as jitakrödha. Krodha
includes desire to kill. But a person who does
not indulge in unnecessary or unprovoked
violence can be said to have conquered anger.
He has that special glow emanating from a
beautiful body which compels everyone to keep
on looking, and it is known as dyuti (glow) and
one who possesses that special grace is
dyutiman. Anasuyaka is one who is not jealous
of another's knowledge, wealth or progress.
Jealousy is asuya and one who is not jealous is
known as anasuyaka.
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He is described as shivansh ( part of god shiva) in shri shiv puran
Time Famine: “the feeling of having too much to do and not enough time to do it.
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Screen Apnea: "Screen apnea is the temporary cessation of breath or shallow breathing while sitting in front of a screen, whether a computer, a mobile device, or a television."
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Skin Hunger: The ongoing deprivation of touch that creates a deep craving for physical contact.
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Productivity Dysmorphia: The chronic sense that you haven't done enough, that your output doesn't quite measure up and you are less worthy as a consequence.
Worse than that, mayhap. She shows signs of being a narcissistic sociopath. A blend of narcissism and sociopathy.
She thinks she knows better than everyone else. Literally everyone. She once said, without a trace of irony, that the world would be better off if everybody in it was like her.
My mother has very particular ideas about what is interesting, noteworthy, worthwhile, and good. And she has nothing but contempt for things she doesn’t think are interesting or good, even if other people do. In fact, she can’t even understand why someone would even think it’s interesting or good. She can’t bring herself to show interest in or empathize with other people’s interests, hobbies, lifestyles, or choices—because they’re not hers. She’ll put on her trusty narcissist mask and pretend to show interest, but it’s all a façade. She is unable—or unwilling—to consider other people’s feelings or needs, let alone make accommodation for them (a sociopathic trait). In fact, she considers doing so to be a betrayal of her most deeply held principles. A betrayal of herself. She never apologizes, never expresses remorse, never accepts blame or accountability. She is inflexible.
As a result, my mother does not “click” with people. She thinks she does, but it’s only because she’s concluded that the other person is similar enough to her to not be considered a complete lout. They almost inevitably wind up disappointing her, because they do something she considers to be unpardonable—a perceived slight, or some habit that annoys her, or something they said that really rubbed her the wrong way—and she’ll end the relationship. It’s never her fault that her relationships come to an end, of course, because she’s never in the wrong (a narcissistic trait).
As a result, my mother is almost completely alone in the world. She has cut off contact with her family for what she perceives to be their favoritism of her siblings and prejudice against her (victimhood is a classic narcissistic trait). Neither I nor my brother talk to her anymore, as we’ve decided that her behavior is simply too toxic for us. My mother has alienated every single family member she has. She has one single friend (at the opposite end of the country) whom she speaks to on the phone every so often. And she has my dad, whom she lives with (and constantly nags and belittles and mocks). That’s it. She has no social life, no cause, no higher calling, no outside interests, nothing. She hangs around the house all day with her cats and her dogs, listening to the radio or watching TV and occasionally fiddling with stained glass. She has no life. She’s cut herself off from the world.
And as a direct result, my mother is an exceedingly negative person. She’s as optimistic as a beached whale. Nothing is ever good enough for her. She expects special treatment wherever she goes, almost always fails to get it, and then becomes irritable and bitchy. She badmouths other people (politicians, actors and actresses, tradesmen, waitstaff, neighbors, even complete strangers with whom she interacted for all of two seconds) constantly. She spends her days in a perpetual state of frustration and bafflement with the people around her. Narcissistic sociopaths (“narcopaths”) are not only contemptuous of the way other people do things but are wholly incapable of even understanding it, as I mentioned earlier. People will do things in my mother’s vicinity that are perfectly normal for them, but which she herself can’t understand…and she’ll feel the need to make a snide comment on it. Often, immediately. Often…audibly.
Because she is incapable of understanding people and why they do the things they do, my mother is contemptuous of them. All of them. Everybody in the whole world. Everyone who isn’t her. As a result, she is incredibly negative. She thinks the world is going to hell in a handbasket, and not in the harmless, ordinary way most Boomers do. My mother believes that everyone else on the planet is crazy, and that she’s the only smart, sagacious, sensible person in the world. The only sane woman trapped in a madhouse. Naturally, this makes her moody, irritable, and short-tempered. A real downer.
So you can imagine my reaction when I saw this question.
The best way—in fact, the only way—to stay positive is to do what my mother is neurologically incapable of doing: to make the conscious choice to (a) click with the people around you and (b) stop getting annoyed easily.
Because that’s all it is. A choice.
And here’s how to do it:
Be flexible.
Bend a little, like a willow tree in the wind.
This is kind of hard to describe. When I’m in company with people—even people I have nothing in common with (and therefore am not “clicking” with), and who, once upon a time, I might’ve found annoying—I go out of my way to blend in. Like a chameleon, I change color to match my surroundings. Only I’m not literally changing the color of my skin; I’m simply tailoring my conversation—my remarks, my jokes, my responses to questions—to the company I find myself in. If I’m sitting around with a bunch of LARPers, I’m going to be speaking and acting and talking in a different manner than I’d be speaking and acting and talking if I was with a group of, say, Korean expatriates or car mechanics.
There’s nothing strange about this. It’s only natural. Would you talk and joke with a group of five-year-olds the same way you’d talk and joke with a group of adults? Of course not. You’d change the way you spoke, you’d adjust your humor to make it age-appropriate, and you might even alter your inflection and your tone of voice to sound friendlier.
Do the same thing when you’re sitting around with a bunch of people you haven’t (yet) clicked with, and whom you might otherwise find irritating. Try doing what my narcissist of a mother can’t do—accommodating other people’s needs and feelings and habits. Try adjusting yourself to your surroundings instead of expecting your surroundings to adjust to you. Don’t just tentatively join the conversation; throw yourself bodily into it, even if it’s a topic you abhor. Enthusiastically join in. Laugh along with the jokes (even if don’t find them funny). Smile. Open yourself to your new companions like a flower. You might be surprised how quickly you “click” with people—and how quickly they stop being annoying to you.
You don’t have to fundamentally change who you are in order to fit in, but you can make some adjustments. A little conformity never hurt anybody. You might find that people will give you a mile if you give ’em an inch. And forcing yourself out of your comfort zone that way—falling in with people with whom you have little in common, and learning about their ways and their interests—might be incredibly healthy for you. It tends to broaden one’s perspective. It may even rewire you brain, and make you into a more sociable, open-minded type.
Remember, something is only annoying because you have made the conscious decision that it is annoying. If you make the conscious decision that it is not annoying, it will stop being annoying. It’s like magic. Wipe your mental slate clean, wade into a conversation with annoying people, enthusiastically join in without judgment or hostility…and you may be surprised how many friends you end up with. And how positive your outlook then (consequently) becomes.
