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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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The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people will spend it for you.
- Peter Shaffer
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
- Lin Yutang
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- Paul Frost
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- Oscar Wilde
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Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
- Robert Brault
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