Posted in All Posts, old age/illness/death, tagged getting old on 10 February, 2008 | No Comments »
[Summary: this is a copy of a chain email that is doing the rounds at present. Someone's reflections on getting old]
Old Age, Sickness and Death are three of the Devaduta - the heavenly messengers that awakened Siddhartha to the human condition. Below is a current chain email offering someone’s reflections on the advantages of getting [...]
Posted in All Posts, old age/illness/death, tagged colds, health on 8 December, 2007 | 3 Comments »
[Does meditation help maintain good heath? Personal whinge at getting a bad cold. ]
Practically every Vipassana meditator feels that meditation is healing both mentally and physically. If that is so, why have I been battling a terrible cold for the last few days? As illnesses go, colds do not rank highly; I could not even [...]
Posted in All Posts, old age/illness/death, tagged Add new tag, youth on 25 October, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ever wonder why somebody doesn’t just throw all of today’s best anti-agers into one cream?
I bet you have.
Bliss wondered, and so they created the Youth as We Know It moisturizer ($79.00, Amazon.com). The company claims the product is infused with MMP Inhibitors, Wrinkle Reduction Peptides, Visual Facial Fillers, Cellular Respiration Boosters, Hyperdermal Destressors, 7-Day Hydrators, [...]
Posted in All Posts, old age/illness/death on 1 October, 2007 | No Comments »
No one can have missed the situation in Burma (Myanmar) over the past week. uTube has lots of videos on the happenings, and there are lots of bloggers still managing to get their messages through. The situation over the years has been very grave - one of supression for the gentle Burmese people, but the [...]
