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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 world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
- Avicenna
In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.
- Shing Xiong
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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