Whenever anyone bodybuilds, he or she is always trying to understand and control the physical in the face of death. No wonder bodybuilding is centered around failure.
]]>The body is like a robot. The mind is the one who directs and tells the robot what to do. So, whatever happens to the body, the mind should stay clear.
]]>Bhikkhus, this body is not yours, nor does it belong to others. It is old kamma, to be seen as generated and fashioned by volition, as something to be felt.
]]>Linked together by bones and sinews,
plastered over with flesh and hide,
and covered by the skin …
Gain victory over the defilements with this one weird trick (contemplation of the unattractiveness of the body).
]]>… the most up-to-date, evidence-based information on science and health questions that affect the decisions we make each day
America’s top scientists give concise answers to the public’s most commonly asked questions, such as:
]]>Everything is always at once a subject and object
A close reading of the medieval story of a boy raised by wolves and a wider meditation on man’s place in the world.
]]>… the fight for disability rights in the UK and India, the remarkable life of Helen Keller, how a Rwandan Paralympic volleyball team made history, and the invention of the Invacar
]]>… all beings are subject to death. Death is their end
Pasenadi laments the death of his aged grandmother.
]]>What even is the immune system and how does it actually work?
]]>We have brains in order to get along with each other […] Trauma destroys the capacity to imagine
How PTSD operates as a personal, cognitive response to a social breakdown and what that says about society and recovery.
]]>Yet it is just within this fathom-long body, with its perception & intellect, that I declare that there is the cosmos, the origination of the cosmos, the cessation of the cosmos, and the path of practice leading to the cessation of the cosmos.
The god Rohitassa tells how he tried to go to the end of the world, and the Buddha explains how to do it successfully.
For Venerable Ānanda’s own exegesis of this sutta, see SN 35.116.
]]>We ask Gotama, the Eye that has arisen in the world:
Is one a brahmin by birth, or by action?
Explain to us what we do not understand –
how to know a brahmin.
What makes someone respectable?
]]>‘I smiled at the guards standing at my cell,’ he writes. ‘Being thrown in the Hole was worth the pleasure of seeing them still alive.’
A review of Jarvis Masters’ spiritual memoir Finding Freedom analyzing the work as a critque of toxicity in an American prison and the presentation of an alternate “Bodhisattva” masculinity possible even among killers.
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