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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
Backward, turn backward,
O Time, in your flight make me a child again just for to-night!
- Elizabeth A. Behnke
If you mould yourself according to time and let yourself flow with the changing
circumstances, see, what you will soon transform into.
- Deep Trivedi
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
- Lisa Kleypas
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
- Giles Andreae
Hindu religion has accepted the ones, wearing necklaces of human skulls, having
wine and opium, and even dance-lovers as their gods. Because Hindu religion
does not believe in abstinence of things but rather, teaching how to have them
in moderation and in the right manner.
- Deep Trivedi
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
- Thomas Jefferson
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