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Wesak blessings 🙏🙏🙏

Visited local Thai Buddhist temple to offer prayers and merit

Any bums in Paris? 

4 hours ago, Mithras said:

 

Humans excel in Psychic Dominance.

Must've learnt it from cats.

Just now, Taomeow said:

 

I saw them for the first time when they served them on a plane en route from Guangzhou to Xi'an.  As an airplane meal they wowed me, but I had them a number of times since then and they didn't become a favorite.  They are pleasant but I found the taste rather one-dimensional (so to speak) unlike the striking appearance.    

The red variety I would use to make smoothies. Love the deep colour, and the supposedly enhanced benefit intensely-coloured fruits provide. Because of its rather bland nature, I'd add a teaspoon of honey, teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil (courtesy of Western dragons) and squeeze in a few drops of lemon/lime or calamansi juice. 

52 minutes ago, Taomeow said:

 

What do dragons eat? ))

Naturally....

Rose apples. One of the most common and widely eaten fruit in Southeast Asia. This is a recent harvest from a friend's garden. 

2 hours ago, Gerard said:

 

 Not recommended fruit for certain animals notably Horse people as they are very warming. It's a summer fruit in Australia I don't dare to touch. 

Not warming like the stew you mentioned, but according to tcm, mangoes, as with a number of other fruits like longans, lychees, rambutans (to name a few) promote damp heat, which then upsets gut flora. 

Most expensive fruit in these parts. Premium ones can cost up to USD 100+ a fruit. 

Mangoes galore! 

42 minutes ago, silent thunder said:

My fave is whatever's in season

 

Each summer during the heatwave I become a dull fledged fruitarian for a few weeks.

I think you're an f short

14 minutes ago, steve said:

If I had to choose a single favorite - watermelon, partly due to how it reminds me of my grandfather. He used to sprinkle some salt on it which I still do. Sometimes he would cut an opening and fill it with vodka, let it soak in for a few hours.

 

 

How amazing! Sounds weird to most, but a tiny pinch of sea salt on watermelon is surprisingly dulishus! No idea about vodka though, but imagine it must be tipsily satisfying 🤭😅 

Similarly, I'd add a pinch or two of salt on pineapple too. Also on some types of mango that are slightly sourish-sweet. 

I live in Southeast Asia and there's a huge huge variety of fruits to be had. There are many different types of bananas, mangoes, citrus fruits, pineapples, melons, durians and even papayas. 

One can almost thrive solely as a fruitarian here. 

My favs are mangosteens, pineapples, watermelons, durians and soursop. 

Mangosteens and soursops, according to some sources, are classified as superfruits, supposedly packed with health-enhancing nutrients. 

As with anything, moderation is key. 

https://nomadparadise.com/asian-fruits/

"Dance of the evening clouds" 

There are many strong and healthy people who die young, while many of the old and sick and feeble live on and on. Not knowing when we’ll die, we need to develop an appreciation and acceptance of what we have, while we have it, rather than continuing to find fault with our experience and constantly seeking to fulfill our desires.

~ Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

17 hours ago, silent thunder said:

No teaching could be more direct than to just sit down.

Shunryu Suzuki

10 hours ago, Taomeow said:

 

One strike and you're dead.

That red button at the end

punctuates full stop.  

punctuates full stop

chapter five's done; let's move on 

beach party awaits 

"The gift of Dhamma excels all gifts; the taste of the Dhamma excels all tastes; the delight in Dhamma excels all delights. The Craving-Freed vanquishes all suffering". 

~ Dhammapada 

Anatta 

Desire is quite natural. When hungry, food cravings take on a very personal note. It's the perversion aspect that leads to angstiness.