a normal chest x-ray may "rule out" pneumonia.
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
MIFU SKY X CLOUD
Right now I’m watching some beautiful clouds in the sky. I’m not blaming myself for any dark clouds. I’m not praising myself for any lovely white fluffy clouds. I’m just watching the clouds as they pass through the sky. Sometimes I get caught up and interested in the shape of a cloud. And sometimes I take more of a step back and notice the sky as a whole. And when I bring a kind, friendly attitude to sky, the experience is even more pleasurable. The awareness grows from not just intellectualising from my mind, but more from my heart.
It’s the same with your mind. The sky is your mind and the clouds are your thoughts. Sometimes you get caught up in the clouds and sometimes you step back and see the sky as a whole. What really matters is your attitude. Whenever you remember, bring a curious, kindly awareness to your mind and the thoughts that arise within them. You can’t really control what clouds come along, but you do have a bit of control with your attitude. Play with your attitude as and when you can.
MIFU KIND TO MIND
So the idea is to be kind to your mind rather than the controller of your mind. When you give your mind the freedom to think whatever it wishes to think and stay as a witness of your thoughts, they gradually slow down because you stop interfering with your mind
Meditation is the gentle art of letting go. Not the art of more effort.". - Shamash Alidina
Meditation is the gentle art of letting go. Not the art of more effort.".
MIFU AVALNCHE X UMBRELLA
One forum responder put it beautifully:
“Starting out trying to concentrate is like trying to stop an avalanche with an umbrella. Better to step aside, let it go by and observe the still terrain after it has passed by.”
JUST SIT X LET GO MIFU
Letting go.
Just sit down and be. Rather than being the controller of your mind, be an observer of your mind. Watch how your mind gets all caught up and then set free again...like the waves in the ocean. Sometimes your mind may take you off for 10 or 15 minutes on a series of thoughts, and sometimes just for a few moments. Either way, it’s your chance to observe and learn how YOUR mind works - don’t worry about comparing yourself to others.
True meditation is about stillness, not concentration. Concentration implies effort and willpower. But willpower is very weak. Within seconds your mind wanders off….why? Because your poor mind gets tired and bored!
True meditation is about stillness, not concentration. Concentration implies effort and willpower. But willpower is very weak. Within seconds your mind wanders off….why? Because your poor mind gets tired and bored!
n 1947, scientists had invented the "transistor" to replace the bulky and fragile glass vacuum tubes in computers. This enabled an explosion in the electronics industry with products such as the pocket-sized "transistor radios." But this demand created a new problem: warehouse-sized rooms full of employees clumsily soldering transistors together by hand
n 1947, scientists had invented the "transistor" to replace the bulky and fragile glass vacuum tubes in computers. This enabled an explosion in the electronics industry with products such as the pocket-sized "transistor radios." But this demand created a new problem: warehouse-sized rooms full of employees clumsily soldering transistors together by hand
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
FIBER
at plenty of fibre. This is essential to keep food moving through the digestive tract. Also, fibre-rich foods fill you up and, like water, help you feel full. Aim to consume about 25g of fibre each day. Most business owners could lose approximately 10lb of weight in a year, just by doubling their fibre intake. Fibre is only found in plant foods – fruits, vegetables, grains and cereals - we’re unable to digest it, so it’s just eliminated. Great tasting sources of fibre include high-fibre cereals, oatmeal (4g per cup) apples (3g each), broccoli, black beans (15g per cup), nuts, chickpeas and lentils. It’s best to take fibre in the morning for breakfast and in the evening too."
DTH TREE
- A tree planting ceremony. The dying person chooses a favorite tree and location to gather and plant it together. This setting will call in the intention to give back something alive to the Earth, to acknowledge the cycle of life and death. It can also be the location later, for a memorial service.
“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
People with higher IQs live longer lives, recent research finds. People with high intelligence in childhood are less likely to get heart disease, strokes, respiratory diseases and dementia later on
People with higher IQs live longer lives, recent research finds.
People with high intelligence in childhood are less likely to get heart disease, strokes, respiratory diseases and dementia later on
DTH
There’s no textbook for when your father is dying
On my first day of medical school, my father, a dentist, told me he’d just been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Cancer had crept back into my life — except this time not into my body.
At age 12, I was diagnosed with brain cancer. After an aggressive surgery, I was tumor-free for 10 years. Then, at 23, I received the news of an inoperable recurrence.
While going through radiation and chemotherapy, I struggled with how to move forward in the face of endless uncertainty — until I realized that, with or without cancer, everyone lives with uncertainty. Since I never knew what the next day would bring, I decided that the most important thing wasn’t where I wanted to be in 10, 15 or 20 years but how I wanted to live now, in the present. So I applied to medical school.
Given how long it takes to become a doctor, this decision may seem absurd. For me, however, living in the present meant fostering human connection, and I felt I could do that best as a physician.
A year after finishing treatment, I was accepted into the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, and a few months later, I moved from my hometown, Boston, to Berkeley, drawn both by the program’s unique qualities and by the chance to live in a place where I could put down roots free from the history of my illness.
At the end of day one of orientation, while my new classmates ordered ice cream at a shop close to campus, I stood just outside, talking on the phone with my father.
“How are you, Dad?”
“They want me to get a liver panel to check my bilirubin, AST and ALT to make sure my liver and bile duct are all right,” he said. “Then we’ll see what chemotherapy I’ll start on.”
It would be months before I learned what all those words and acronyms meant, and I didn’t want to know about the tests anyway. My mind roiled with flashbacks to my own diagnoses — the sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach as my future suddenly became hazy. I just wanted to hear how he was holding up and how he felt about his illness — the feelings so seldom talked about in medical training.
“How are you, Dad?” I repeated.
“It is what it is,” he replied. I wanted to press for more, but perhaps, having dedicated his life to the practice and teaching of dentistry, he found clinical language more comfortable than that of the emotions.
That same week, my class had our first anatomy lab. Before entering, we sat in a circle and shared our thoughts and feelings regarding what we were about to experience.
My thoughts swirled uncontrollably. I tried to forget that, when talking with my dad earlier, he’d said, “Maybe I’ll donate my own body.” I wondered if I would, or could, do the same when the time came.
I recognized the magnitude of this moment — how privileged I am, as a medical student, to learn about the human body in such an intimate way from someone I’ll never know. At the same time, I felt a rising uncertainty.
Who am I right now? I thought. Am I a patient, a son whose father has a terminal illness, or a medical student? Do I need to choose? I didn’t know.
As my classmates and I followed the teaching assistant to the cadaver at the far end of the room, my heart felt like it would jump out of my chest. We stood by the cadaver, and the teaching assistant showed us how to properly unwrap the body and gave us each a different organ to inspect.
Ironically, I was handed the brain.
The last time I’d been this close to one was on a tour of the Cushing Center at Yale Medical School. As the other applicants marveled at the displays of Dr. Cushing’s neurosurgical accomplishments, I stared at a brain in a jar whose faded label read: “Oligodendroglioma.”
My tumor, I thought.
Next to the jar, several others held brains with various tumor types: glioblastoma, astrocytoma … the list went on. But all I could think about were my friends — the ones I’ve met on my journey, fellow brain-tumor survivors, some of whom are still around, but many of whom, sadly, have passed.
Can I handle medical school if, rather than seeing medical breakthroughs, all I can see is the people they remind me of? I wondered.
Now, holding the brain, I braced for the same visceral reaction, but it never came. Instead, I felt awe and fascination that the organ I was holding governs every movement I make, every sense I experience, every thought or memory I piece together. I wondered if my lack of emotion meant that I was detaching from my identity as a patient. Was it okay to just be a medical student?
As the months passed, I often felt disoriented by my shifting sense of identity. In our clinical classes’ mock interviews, I’d opt to play the patient before being the clinician. During class discussions, I’d wonder at different moments whether it would be appropriate to share my thoughts as a medical student or my experiences as a patient. When talking through cases or listening to patients speak, was it acceptable to acknowledge my feeling of emotional connection to them?
This inner conflict didn’t arise out of an excessive emphasis on “professionalism” within my medical school, which is humanistic and encourages self-reflection. Perhaps it was a response to the larger medical culture — one in which medical practitioners with white coats and the learned behaviors we call professional are separated from their patients by an invisible boundary. Even this early, I’ve seen enough to know that it’s a culture of burnout, in which practicing doctors tell you to hold on to your idealistic naiveté as long as you can.
After two-and-a-half months of anatomy, my classmates and I finally reached a much-needed break. I flew back to Boston to visit my father for the first time since his diagnosis. We’d planned to grab lunch, but we ended up in the emergency room instead.
Although we’d spoken by phone regularly, I soon discovered that he hadn’t told me everything. In order to keep me at school, he’d concealed how fast his condition was declining.
Now we found ourselves in an inpatient room. His oncologist said the cancer had invaded his liver to such an extent that further chemotherapy would be useless. This was news to both of us. My father had known it was inevitable, but hadn’t expected it to happen this soon. It was already time to plan for hospice.
I sat across from my father’s bed as he slept. Nurses streamed in and out, the monitors beeped rhythmically, and the pads around my father’s swollen legs inflated and deflated every minute. At times, I’d glance at my father and see the man who raised me. At other times, I’d see where I might be at some point. And in a terrifying way, at times I’d glance at him and see only a patient with pancreatic cancer and liver failure.
On the day when he’d shared his diagnosis, I hadn’t wanted to think about his liver — but now, seeing him in the hospital after 10 weeks of classes, I saw in my father what I was learning in medical school.
As so often in the past, I found myself wondering, Is that normal? Is that OK?
But there was no textbook I could consult to find out how a patient-turned-medical student-turned-son of a dying father should act in a situation like this
DV
Danger Assessment was developed to help determine the level of danger an abused woman has of being killed by her partner, and is available in multiple languages. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Other tools that can be used to screen patients for domestic violence include the 4-item Hurt, Insult, Threaten, and Scream (which has been tested on men), Abuse Assessment Screen (available in Spanish), Assessment of Immediate Safety Screening Questions, and Domestic Violence Initiative Screening Questions.
indeed, vegetarians’ arteries dilate four times better than omnivores’ arteries.
indeed, vegetarians’ arteries dilate four times better than omnivores’ arteries.
he presence of greater than 10% atypical lymphocytes significantly increases the likelihood of mononucleosis, especially when accompanied by lymphocytosis.
he presence of greater than 10% atypical lymphocytes significantly increases the likelihood of mononucleosis, especially when accompanied by lymphocytosis.
STERNOCLAVICULAR JOINT ARTHRITIS P OTASHA BKHTAR
inal diagnosis of sternoclavicular joint swelling (n=21)
| S. No | Diagnosis | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| Osteoarthitis | 11 (52.4%) | |
| Infection | 4 (19%) | |
| Metastasis | 2 (9.5%) | |
| Primary bone/cartilage tumour | 2 (9.5%) | |
| Rheumatoid arthritis | 1 (4.8%) | |
| Radiation induced arthritis | 1 (4.8%) |
If we can learn to understand [our] suffering and open to the reality of it, then instead of simply being overwhelmed by it, we can investigate its causes and begin to let them go. —Joseph Goldstein, “Facing the Heat
If we can learn to understand [our] suffering and open to the reality of it, then instead of simply being overwhelmed by it, we can investigate its causes and begin to let them go.
—Joseph Goldstein, “Facing the Heat
—Joseph Goldstein, “Facing the Heat
Monday, 29 October 2018
Activities that allow you to access a ‘flow state’ make time pass more quickly and pleasantly, new research finds. A flow state is the experience of being fully engaged with what you’re currently doing.
Activities that allow you to access a ‘flow state’ make time pass more quickly and pleasantly, new research finds.
A flow state is the experience of being fully engaged with what you’re currently doing.
POCO Go with the 80/20 rule. Stay on track 80% of the time, but leave some room for a few indulgences. You don’t want to feel deprived or guilty.
Go with the 80/20 rule. Stay on track 80% of the time, but leave some room for a few indulgences. You don’t want to feel deprived or guilty.
how can you help? (681) a new student asked the sage, “how can i help?” “you can learn. you can dance. you can sing. you can study the kōans. you can share them with your friends. you can take three breaths. you can tell the truth. you can help others. you can help yourself. you can listen to your dreams, and throw a jubilee, or you can go where you’re needed, and take a walk. you can ask around. but whatever you do, don’t crush sunflowers.”
how can you help? (681)
a new student asked the sage, “how can i help?”
“you can learn. you can dance. you can sing. you can study the kōans. you can share them with your friends. you can take three breaths. you can tell the truth. you can help others. you can help yourself. you can listen to your dreams, and throw a jubilee, or you can go where you’re needed, and take a walk. you can ask around. but whatever you do, don’t crush sunflowers.”
“you can learn. you can dance. you can sing. you can study the kōans. you can share them with your friends. you can take three breaths. you can tell the truth. you can help others. you can help yourself. you can listen to your dreams, and throw a jubilee, or you can go where you’re needed, and take a walk. you can ask around. but whatever you do, don’t crush sunflowers.”
ROMANIA MS
BUCHAREST CAROL DAVLIA MS- BBB OK
The Carol Davila medical school in Bucharest is very good! You get patient contact very early!
You would require minimum of BB in bio chem or science subjects at a level
Currently I study in Craiova, a small city near Bucharest.
We have a small course (about 50-60 people in a year) and a small classes.
Fees are 5000 a year and accomdation, food and living is cheaper than most cities in romania.
hello, I study medicine in Romania in Cluj and it's my second year. I study in English so I didn't have to learn Romanian which saved me a lot of time, Romanians also speak English, and it is much cheaper than other European countries.
The Carol Davila medical school in Bucharest is very good! You get patient contact very early!
You would require minimum of BB in bio chem or science subjects at a level
Currently I study in Craiova, a small city near Bucharest.
We have a small course (about 50-60 people in a year) and a small classes.
Fees are 5000 a year and accomdation, food and living is cheaper than most cities in romania.
hello, I study medicine in Romania in Cluj and it's my second year. I study in English so I didn't have to learn Romanian which saved me a lot of time, Romanians also speak English, and it is much cheaper than other European countries.
B DEER FARMER CONTENT
In the beginning, you should be pursued by the fear of birth and death, like a deer escaping from a trap. In the middle, you should have nothing to regret, even if you die at this moment, like a peasant who has worked his land with care. In the end, you should be happy, like someone who has completed an immense task. . . .
The most important thing to know is that there is no time to lose, as if an arrow had hit a vital spot in your body.
The most important thing to know is that there is no time to lose, as if an arrow had hit a vital spot in your body.
Gampopa, Sonam Rinchen (sgam po pa dwags po lha rje bsod nams rin chen, 1079-1153), quoted orally by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
Sunday, 28 October 2018
If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion. -B. R. Ambedkar
If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.
-B. R. Ambedkar
-B. R. Ambedkar
Stop holding on to what hurts and start making room for what feels good. You are not what happened to you in the past. You are now, you are this moment. What will you do with it? Who will you choose to become?" -- Robert Tew
Stop holding on to what hurts and start making room for what feels good. You are not what happened to you in the past. You are now, you are this moment. What will you do with it? Who will you choose to become?"
-- Robert Tew
-- Robert Tew
Infinity has its own special symbol: ∞. The symbol, sometimes called the lemniscate, was introduced by clergyman and mathematician John Wallis in 1655. The word "lemniscate" comes from the Latin word lemniscus, which means "ribbon," while the word "infinity" comes from the Latin word infinitas, which means "boundless.
Infinity has its own special symbol: ∞. The symbol, sometimes called the lemniscate, was introduced by clergyman and mathematician John Wallis in 1655. The word "lemniscate" comes from the Latin word lemniscus, which means "ribbon," while the word "infinity" comes from the Latin word infinitas, which means "boundless.
25% of your muscle mass is gone by age 70 — a major reason people lose their independence — and the majority of people who break a hip never fully regain their independence.
25% of your muscle mass is gone by age 70 — a major reason people lose their independence — and the majority of people who break a hip never fully regain their independence.
All the plants around us today are descended from simple algae that emerged more than 500 million years ago. While new plant species are still being discovered, it is thought that there are around 400,000 species in existence.
MENTAL TOUGHNESS CCCC
Clough and his colleagues describe it as similar to a personality trait consisting of four critical components:
- Challenge: Viewing challenges as opportunities rather than obstacles.
- Control: Believing that you are in control of your life and destiny.
- Commitment: Having the ability to stick to tasks and see them through to completion.
- Confidence: Possessing strong self-belief in your ability to succeed.
SOLITUDE V LONELINESS
My father died suddenly during the summer between my freshman and sophomore years of college. The loss unhinged me. Even though I lived with two roommates and was surrounded by fellow students and teachers, I spent the next three years of college in a fog of depression and isolation. After graduation I joined the Peace Corps, partly in order to avoid the draft—it was the height of the Vietnam War—and partly from having no idea where I wanted to go with my life.
REDUNDANT ACRONYM SYNDROME
ndrome") and acronym-assisted pleonasm.
Common examples of RAS syndrome include PIN number (personal identification number number), AC current (alternating current current) and HIV virus (human immunodeficiency virus virus).
Such redundancies, says Bryan Garner, "may be passable in speech—especially with unfamiliar acronyms—[but] they should be avoided in formal writing" (Garner's Modern American Usage, 2009).
The term RAS syndrome first appeared in the magazine New Scientist (May 26, 2001).
Examples and Observations
- LCD display for liquid crystal display display
- CNN network for Cable News Network network
- RAM memory for random-access memory memory
- RSI injury for repetitive strain injury injury
- SARS syndrome for severe acute respiratory syndrome syndrome
- MVUE estimator for minimum-variance unbiased estimator estimator
- CMS system for content management system system
- BBC corporation for British Broadcasting Corporation corporation
- IRA account for individual retirement account account
- PCR reaction for polymerase chain reaction reaction
P LARGE AF X DELAYED AF
Conditions Associated with an Enlarged Anterior Fontanel and Delayed Closure
| CONDITIONS | ENLARGED FONTANEL | DELAYED CLOSURE | |
|---|---|---|---|
Most common
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Achondroplasia
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✓
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✓
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Congenital hypothyroidism
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✓
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✓
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Down syndrome
|
✓
|
✓
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Increased intracranial pressure
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✓
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✓
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Normal variation
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✓
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✓
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Familial macrocephaly
|
✓
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Rickets
|
✓
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✓
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Less common
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Skeletal disorders
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Acrocallosal syndrome (seizures, polydactyly, mental retardation)
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P HYPOPHOSPHATASIA
Hypophosphatasia in a child with widened anterior fontanelle: lessons learned from late diagnosis and incorrect treatment
Angelika Mohn,
UNLABELLED: Hypophosphatasia is characterized by deficiency of serum alkaline phosphatase with defective bone and teeth mineralization. We report on an 11-month-old boy who developed a complex clinical picture characterized by bulging anterior fontanelle, growth failure, nephrocalcinosis and impaired bone mineralization during high-dose calcium and vitamin D supplementation. This therapy had been started 5 months earlier for a presumed diagnosis of nutritional rickets established on the grounds of isolated widened anterior fontanelle. However, laboratory investigations revealed reduced alkaline phosphatase levels associated with hypercalcemia, hypercalciuria, low PTH and normal 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels. Genetic testing detected a compound heterozygote for the novel mutation (c.262G>A) and the described mutation (c.920C>T) in the ALPL gene.
CONCLUSION: High calcium and vitamin D supplementation should not be started in the presence of isolated signs of nutritional rickets without assessing calcium-phosphate metabolism. In fact, in rare bone-mineralizing disorders, this combined therapy might induce severe clinical complications.
B COMPASSION X ENLIGHTENMENT
Rinpoche began the teaching by explaining the story of Asanga and Maitreya Buddha, how Asanga did retreat for twelve years to achieve Maitreya Buddha but it wasn’t until he generated unbelievable bodhichitta by picking up the maggots from a wounded dog that he saw Maitreya Buddha, even though Maitreya Buddha said he had been there all the time, but Asanga hadn’t seen. Rinpoche then told the story of Lama Atisha when he was invited to Tibet and wrote the Lamp of the Path to Enlightenment. Rinpoche explained that if you don’t want suffering and only want happiness then you need to study the science of the mind and study the methods on how to free yourself from delusion and karma. It is because Bodhisattvas have stronger compassion they achieve enlightenment quicker. However long it takes you to achieve enlightenment depends on compassion. Compassion is the one that is so important. If you follow compassion then everything comes to you. Therefore, in all the activities of one’s life, do everything for sentient beings. Compassion is the most important thing to practice in everyday life and helps to achieve all the other realizations. Cherishing the I causes suffering to yourself and to numberless sentient beings and cherishing others is really cherishing yourself, not only now but in the future. Rinpoche said that when you experience abuse or whatever recognize immediately that it came from your own self-cherishing thought, and then whatever problem you have, give it to the real enemy, your self-cherishing thought and smash it. Rinpoche then spoke about the power of the object and if you get angry then you can destroy so many merits.
Meditation is a haven away from the ubiquitous world of self-improvement. It’s not just that there’s no such thing as “bad” meditation, but there’s no such thing as “good” meditation either. It is what it is. —Barry Evans, “The Myth of the Experienced Meditator”
Meditation is a haven away from the ubiquitous world of self-improvement. It’s not just that there’s no such thing as “bad” meditation, but there’s no such thing as “good” meditation either. It is what it is.
—Barry Evans, “The Myth of the Experienced Meditator”
—Barry Evans, “The Myth of the Experienced Meditator”
benchley Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth."
Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth."
mcluhan "I don't necessarily agree with everything I say."
"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say."
"There is a foundation for our lives, a place in which our life rests. That place is nothing but the present moment, as we see, hear, experience what is. If we do not return to that place, we live our lives out of our heads. We blame others; we complain; we feel sorry for ourselves. All of these symptoms show that we're stuck in our thoughts. We're out of touch with the open space that is always right here." ~ Joko Beck
"There is a foundation for our lives, a place in which our life rests. That place is nothing but the present moment, as we see, hear, experience what is. If we do not return to that place, we live our lives out of our heads. We blame others; we complain; we feel sorry for ourselves. All of these symptoms show that we're stuck in our thoughts. We're out of touch with the open space that is always right here." ~ Joko Beck
"We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us." ~ Joko Beck
"We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us." ~ Joko Beck
"Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life." ~ Joko Beck
"Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life." ~ Joko Beck
Saturday, 27 October 2018
You just can´t beat the person who never gives up. - Babe Ruth
You just can´t beat the person who never gives up. - Babe Ruth
TIME X ORDER
As Rilke wrote, “Time does not ‘console’ as people say superficially; at best it puts things in their place and it creates order.” There is a Zen story about a man whose horse ran away. People said it was bad luck. Then the horse came back, which people thought was good luck, and then his son broke his leg while falling off it and people thought that was bad luck come round again. But because his leg was broken, the man’s son was saved from fighting and dying in a war, and the cycle went on and on
If we act constructively, happiness will ensue; if we act destructively, problems will result…We create the causes by our actions, and we experience their results. —Ven. Thubten Chodron, “What Is Karma?”
If we act constructively, happiness will ensue; if we act destructively, problems will result…We create the causes by our actions, and we experience their results.
—Ven. Thubten Chodron, “What Is Karma?”
—Ven. Thubten Chodron, “What Is Karma?”
TEA WITHOUT MILK HELPS ENDOTHELIAL HEALTH
Researchers found the “addition of milk to black tea completely prevents the biological activity of tea in terms of improvement of endothelial function.” So, that could explain it. It appears the milk protein casein is the culprit, though soy protein was recently found to have the same nutrient binding effect. The European Society of Cardiology issued a press release about the study showing the protective effect of tea “is totally wiped out by adding milk” and suggested consumers should consider cutting down. Milk-drinkers were not amused: “As long as the reported results are not confirmed in a fair number of humans who drink their tea outside the lab setting, we will continue to add milk to ours.” The researchers responded, challenging the notion that their study wasn’t big enough. They had 16 subjects, and the results were highly significant. Across those 16 people, the “addition of milk to tea not only reduced, but completely blunted the effects of tea….The rationale for drinking tea in a lab setting was that only under these conditions could the influence of other beverages and food be controlled for.” They were doing an experiment after all. Were they supposed to drag the equipment to a Starbucks or something?
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