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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Nurturing
What "want" did you engage in this week? What did you notice?
What experiment did you do related to your Committed Way of Being?
What "want" did you engage in this week? What did you notice?
1. While feeling that I fall behind the scheduled work on my dissertation, I decided to stop comparing myself with other friends. As an effort for this, I have ceased to check Facebook for about a month. What I discovered on the FB is that FB participants are performing in short statements and photographic images. I became sick of this theatricality. Even though I know well that a few lines of written status and eclectically chose photos often fails to represent a FB participants, I feel the apparent happiness and amusement people show off on the social network could not be mine. Instead of using that, I resumed to write journal at the end of a day, which helped me firmly place myself in the center of my everyday life.
2. I am trying to be a vegetarian again. For the last five years, I have gone through a series of trials and failure to change my diet. However, in the midst of emotional tumult and frustration, I discovered that changing diet could be one way of elevating my mood. I read one Buddhist's essay about meat-eating diet: according to him, people take in a slaughtered animal's fear and anger at the moment of its death, while consuming its meat. Some people would ignore the Buddhist monk's comment. But, many biochemists also agree with his idea that a certain type of chemicals are secreted when an animal is killed, so that the chemicals can negatively affect any eater of the animal. Recently, while subduing my appetite for animal protein, I am reading John Robbins's books. I feel healthier and more confident with peace in my mind.
What experiment did you do related to your Committed Way of Being?
What "want" did you engage in this week? What did you notice?
ReplyDelete1. While feeling that I fall behind the scheduled work on my dissertation, I decided to stop comparing myself with other friends. As an effort for this, I have ceased to check Facebook for about a month. What I discovered on the FB is that FB participants are performing in short statements and photographic images. I became sick of this theatricality. Even though I know well that a few lines of written status and eclectically chose photos often fails to represent a FB participants, I feel the apparent happiness and amusement people show off on the social network could not be mine. Instead of using that, I resumed to write journal at the end of a day, which helped me firmly place myself in the center of my everyday life.
2. I am trying to be a vegetarian again. For the last five years, I have gone through a series of trials and failure to change my diet. However, in the midst of emotional tumult and frustration, I discovered that changing diet could be one way of elevating my mood. I read one Buddhist's essay about meat-eating diet: according to him, people take in a slaughtered animal's fear and anger at the moment of its death, while consuming its meat. Some people would ignore the Buddhist monk's comment. But, many biochemists also agree with his idea that a certain type of chemicals are secreted when an animal is killed, so that the chemicals can negatively affect any eater of the animal. Recently, while subduing my appetite for animal protein, I am reading John Robbins's books. I feel healthier and more confident with peace in my mind.
What experiment did you do related to your Committed Way of Being?