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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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.’
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A newly discovered bacterium, Thiomargarita magnifica, challenges the definition of a microbe: its filament-like single cell is up to 2 centimetres long.
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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 .
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