How to beat chocolate cravings
Re: How to beat chocolate cravings
I'll just have a bit of chocolate and not make a big song and dance about it or imagine myself to be some kind of Himalyan aescetic...
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Huh?TMingyur wrote:
I try to stay on topic while others actually try to foster chocolate cravings.
Who?
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You see. That is the remainder of the Himalyan influence in your mind: attachment. That's fostered to some degree therePeterB wrote:I'll just have a bit of chocolate and not make a big song and dance about it or imagine myself to be some kind of Himalyan aescetic...
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That scratching may entail serious infections.Ben wrote:Just like an itch demands to be scratched, so too can cravings be hard to deny.
"What I found was that if people accept craving for chocolate as human behaviour, just something that happens to them, then you take the fight out of it," she says.
"It takes the pressure off."
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You take care of your mind and I will do my best to understand mine....TMingyur wrote:You see. That is the remainder of the Himalyan influence in your mind: attachment. That's fostered to some degree therePeterB wrote:I'll just have a bit of chocolate and not make a big song and dance about it or imagine myself to be some kind of Himalyan aescetic...
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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?
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?
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
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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......
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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.