Sublime

Dis-ease is yin; it sometimes comes along to help you see how to balance the yang of life. People mostly get sick from burning their vital power through too much activity, and yang.

In our everyday life, we may also produce poisons for our minds, and these poisons destroy not only us but also those who live with us, in the present and in the future too. Buddhism talks about three poisons: desire, hatred, and ignorance. In addition, there are other poisons whose capacity to do harm is very great: jealousy, prejudice, pride, sus

Suddenly, I gained an insight—that it is our attachments, hatreds, and closed views that imprison us as hungry ghosts, preventing us from going forward and living in the happiness that is available.

There are poisons inside us, including craving, anger, and delusion.

When severe gastritis strikes, simply stop eating and drinking everything else for a day or two and start eating fresh raw grapes; the black variety are by far the most potent. Start with 1 or 2 pounds and work up to 3 or 4 pounds per day.