How to beat chocolate cravings

[Hanzze]

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?

[Jhana4]

Being aware that chocolate production today still entails child labour and slavery may suffice for some to abandon chocolate completely.

Disagree. You can buy "fair trade" chocolate from such brands as "Equal Exchange", for more info Google on earch term.

Or:
Giving in to one sense pleasure opens the door for complete failure.

That sounds more Christian than Buddhist.

No disrespect......

[Annapurna]

Dear Gentlemen, it's spelled Himalayan. Please forgive the nitpick.

Mousse au chocolate, anyone...?

[PeterB]

Actually Anna that has become the accepted name for that range of mountains...they are in fact the HIMALYAS prounced him-ahl-yass

[Euclid]

Disagree. You can buy "fair trade" chocolate from such brands as "Equal Exchange", for more info Google on earch term.

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.

[BubbaBuddhist]

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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[ground]

Or:
Giving in to one sense pleasure opens the door for complete failure.

That sounds more Christian than Buddhist.

No disrespect......

Then the Buddha was christian. No disrespect.

Kind regards

[ground]

This is the only place I've ever been in my entire life where people will argue over a piece of chocolate.

M4

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".


Kind regards

[alan]

Are you eating pure chocolate?
Most stuff sold in markets is primarily sugar.

[tiltbillings]

This is the only place I've ever been in my entire life where people will argue over a piece of chocolate.

M4

If the eucharist were high cocoa content dark chocolate I'd still be a Catholic. Mmmmm. Chocolate good.

Sacred Bean Pod

[Annapurna]

Actually Anna that has become the accepted name for that range of mountains...they are in fact the HIMALYAS prounced him-ahl-yass

Peter, of course you are a Native speaker and all, but "Leo org. online Dictionary" and Wiki spell it Himalaya.....

Leo:

the Himalayas pl. [geog.] der Himalaja auch: Himalaya

Wiki:

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.

I may be wrong, but other google researches also speak of the Himalaya!

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

[Annapurna]

This is the only place I've ever been in my entire life where people will argue over a piece of chocolate.

M4

Its different when we 'argue'. Of course only like cultivated Buddhists argue.

[PeterB]

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....

[PeterB]

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.

[PeterB]

Are you eating pure chocolate?
Most stuff sold in markets is primarily sugar.

Yum.

[Jhana4]

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.

I rarely crave chochlate, but I found that drinking tea or yerba mate kills that craving.....with far less calories.

[Annapurna]

Are you eating pure chocolate?
Most stuff sold in markets is primarily sugar.

Yum.

Hehehe...

Thanks for the explanation, btw.

[PeterB]

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.

I rarely crave chochlate, but I found that drinking tea or yerba mate kills that craving.....with far less calories.

I like chocolate. I dont want to not want chocolate ..thanks all the same. Sheesh! We are talking about bloody chocolate ...not raping nuns...

And I do hope no one is going to suggest a slippery slope from choccy to nunrape...

[tiltbillings]

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....

Since the name is two Sanskrit words, neither pronunciation is correct. him ALL ee a is the correct way to pronouce it.