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.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
When there is Love, there is no ego; ego dissolves like the dew drops with the sun.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Those who are fundamentalists and refuse to listen to anything said against them,
we call them terrorists. Don't you find similar traits in majority of our religious
heads? If this wasn't true then why were Socrates, Mansoor and Jesus killed?
-Deep Trivedi
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
-Frank Zappa
