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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
Among many moral stories told to children by their parents, the stories of obedient
children like Rama and Shravana are mostly told with some extra fondness. Are
some parents living with the latent desire to get their children's youth sacrificed
for the sake of their old age?
- Deep Trivedi
Love is a great thing, greatest of all goods, because it alone renders light every burden and bears equally all that is unequal.
- Jesus Christ
Adverse circumstances bother you only till the time you pay attention to them.
The moment you divert your attention onto favourable circumstances, all your
troubles vanish.
- Deep Trivedi
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- Desmond Tutu
He who is in perfect peace suspects no man. But he who is discontented and disturbed is agitated by various suspicions; he neither has rest himself, nor does he permit others to rest.
- Jesus Christ
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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