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Fasting in the monastic community is considered an ascetic practice, a “dhutanga” practice. Dhutanga means “to shake up” or “invigoration”. The Buddha, as is well known, emphasized moderation, the Middle Way that avoids extremes, in all things. Fasting is an additional method that one can take up, with supervision, for a time.
- A Spiritual Leader
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
- Dhammapada
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Ambrose Bierce
Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to'.
- Lao Tzu
Open yourself, create free space; release the bound one from his bonds! Like a newborn child, freed from the womb, be free to move on every path!
- Vedas
Christmas is not a time nor season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
- Calvin Coolidge
Mahavira had renounced clothing... But then why are majority of the clothing
shops owned by the Jains named "Mahavira Vastralaya"?
- Deep Trivedi
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