I am even not able to abstain from expressing my desire... There is nothing worldly left as chocolate and cheese which could easily bring me to fall.
I thought to join the funny Tibetan-Theravada conversation a little.
Chocolate is in deed a real craving, but to quote child labor as motivation... well there is more danger as in leaving the country side, and who would take care of the needed marijuana plants in the future for the kids?
How to beat chocolate cravings
Re: How to beat chocolate cravings
Just that! *smile*
...We Buddhists must find the courage to leave our temples and enter the temples of human experience, temples that are filled with suffering. If we listen to Buddha, Christ, or Gandhi, we can do nothing else. The refugee camps, the prisons, the ghettos, and the battlefields will become our temples. We have so much work to do. ... Peace is Possible! Step by Step. - Samtach Preah Maha Ghosananda "Step by Step" http://www.ghosananda.org/bio_book.html
BUT! it is important to become a real Buddhist first. Like Punna did: Punna Sutta Nate sante baram sokham _()_
...We Buddhists must find the courage to leave our temples and enter the temples of human experience, temples that are filled with suffering. If we listen to Buddha, Christ, or Gandhi, we can do nothing else. The refugee camps, the prisons, the ghettos, and the battlefields will become our temples. We have so much work to do. ... Peace is Possible! Step by Step. - Samtach Preah Maha Ghosananda "Step by Step" http://www.ghosananda.org/bio_book.html
BUT! it is important to become a real Buddhist first. Like Punna did: Punna Sutta Nate sante baram sokham _()_
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Disagree. You can buy "fair trade" chocolate from such brands as "Equal Exchange", for more info Google on earch term.TMingyur wrote:Being aware that chocolate production today still entails child labour and slavery may suffice for some to abandon chocolate completely.
That sounds more Christian than Buddhist.Or:
Giving in to one sense pleasure opens the door for complete failure.
No disrespect......
In reading the scriptures, there are two kinds of mistakes:
One mistake is to cling to the literal text and miss the inner principles.
The second mistake is to recognize the principles but not apply them to your own mind, so that you waste time and just make them into causes of entanglement.
One mistake is to cling to the literal text and miss the inner principles.
The second mistake is to recognize the principles but not apply them to your own mind, so that you waste time and just make them into causes of entanglement.
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Dear Gentlemen, it's spelled Himalayan. Please forgive the nitpick.
Mousse au chocolate, anyone...?
Mousse au chocolate, anyone...?
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Actually Anna that has become the accepted name for that range of mountains...they are in fact the HIMALYAS prounced him-ahl-yass
Re: How to beat chocolate cravings
Fair Trade is unfortunately not as 'fair' as one would think - the documentary posted earlier investigates some fair trade plantations where they use child slave labour all the same.Jhana4 wrote:
Disagree. You can buy "fair trade" chocolate from such brands as "Equal Exchange", for more info Google on earch term.
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Re: How to beat chocolate cravings
This is the only place I've ever been in my entire life where people will argue over a piece of chocolate.
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Then the Buddha was christian. No disrespect.Jhana4 wrote:That sounds more Christian than Buddhist.Or:
Giving in to one sense pleasure opens the door for complete failure.
No disrespect......
Kind regards
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That is a misrepresentation and not true. It is about cravings. And that people tend to find lots of reasons in favor of cravings is "natural".Metta-4 wrote:This is the only place I've ever been in my entire life where people will argue over a piece of chocolate.
M4
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Are you eating pure chocolate?
Most stuff sold in markets is primarily sugar.
Most stuff sold in markets is primarily sugar.
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If the eucharist were high cocoa content dark chocolate I'd still be a Catholic. Mmmmm. Chocolate good.Metta-4 wrote:This is the only place I've ever been in my entire life where people will argue over a piece of chocolate.
M4
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This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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Peter, of course you are a Native speaker and all, but "Leo org. online Dictionary" and Wiki spell it Himalaya.....PeterB wrote:Actually Anna that has become the accepted name for that range of mountains...they are in fact the HIMALYAS prounced him-ahl-yass
Leo:
Wiki:the Himalayas pl. [geog.] der Himalaja auch: Himalaya
I may be wrong, but other google researches also speak of the Himalaya!The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains (pronounced /ˌhɪməˈleɪ.ə/ or /hɪˈmɑːlᵊjə/,[1][2] Sanskrit: literally, "abode of snow", Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. By extension, it is also the name of a massive mountain system that includes the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, and other, lesser, ranges that extend out from the Pamir Knot.
Now what is it??
Perhaps this is a thing like "definately", instead of "definitely"? A phonetic way of writing it?
Don't know?
Thanks for explaining,
Anna
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Its different when we 'argue'. Of course only like cultivated Buddhists argue.Metta-4 wrote:This is the only place I've ever been in my entire life where people will argue over a piece of chocolate.
M4
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They are both correct in a sense Anna...you are quite correct in that the usual pronuciation is four sylables with the stress on the third, Him a LAY a. but those Brits who have been there there and Brit Tibetan Buddhists tend to say it with three sylables with the emphasis on the second Him AL yass....
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Anyhoo back to the topic....I have constant weight issues...but enjoy a bit of chocolate now and then without feeling the need to self flagellate or wring my hands afterwards.