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.
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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.
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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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Repeated trips to the toilet in the night can be a sign of high blood pressure, research concludes.
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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?
They’re all you now.
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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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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.
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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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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”.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Care about what people feel, not what they think.
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Rama possesses character and wealth
[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
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