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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.
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, which has so unfortunately divided man.
- J. Krishnamurti
A man becomes pure through sincerity of intellect; thereupon, in meditation he beholds Him who is without parts.
- Mundaka Upanishad
Hatred never ceases through hatred in this world; through love alone they cease. This is an eternal law.
- Dhammapada
The one who recognizes the pulse of 'time' and acts accordingly...his 'time'
changes soon.
- Deep Trivedi
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