diets - good news

Has great news! (at least for me...) The American Dietetic Association has a new position on vegetarian-/veganism: positive! Not only are plant-based diets adequate, they even have advantages. This is the case for all people, up to and including pregnant women and athletes. See here; http://www.eatright.org/About/Conte...nt.aspx?id=8357 (and also be sure to check out this site: http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/index.html). Peace :) (ps: unfortunately the ADA's position stands in contrast to its Dutch counterpart, which is more conservative (chanting: ''milk, milk, milk''))

busy with being busy

I've got quite some things to do - but i'm not doing them. Being less productive than i wish i'd be is usually the case for me, but when i'm at my parents' place, i'm less productive than i could be. And, just before 3 exams, 2 papers, one meeting of the reading group in Buddhology, 4 x 2 hrs of work (each week! i've got a job!), i really ought to be really really doing something. But, i just can't get my head straight when i'm here... perhaps i should just accept it and wait with being busy until i'm home again, on my own again. And now enjoy the snow, ice, books, and family! :D

sounds like a gooood plan :)

great!

a pro-vegan broadcast by the dutch consumer program Radar:
http://www.trosradar.nl/index.php?id=uitzending&itemUid=659

debunking the dutch pro-milk sentiment

:)

may all beings, cows included, be extremely happy!
fedde

a four day vow

sometimes absence is needed to note presence...

Studying Buddhadharma yesterday and today, I made a vow this morning not to listen to music. Using my computer to do some things, i automatically think ''oh i can turn on some ...'' - usually i would follow the thought. Now, I'm going to have the thought follow me for a few days. :)

Amituofo!

the world is interesting,

peace,
fedde

who doesn't get happy seeing those who uphold the precepts?

What i've seen was great, - i will definetely take the time one of these weeks, to see the entire documentary.

Amituofo! :)

peace,
fedde

just need to write

some random thoughts:

it is a most healthy thing to be outside; just take a walk every now and then. :) Look around, hear the sounds (mostly highway/freeway (whatever) for me :P). Enjoy. Thát is environmental activism!

another thought:
plurality!

another thought:
classical music! :)

another thought:
i think part of the entire problem in the world is a lack of spirituality - people are forgetting to think about some matters, don't search or find a home. This is really the cause of the environmental problem. Which for me is not global warming (though it is, if it is antropogenic, certainly bad, in my view), but is really what we see so clearly in de Randstad where i'm living: no nature at all! Just human intervention wherever you go... its sad you know.

ok,
perhaps i need to think some more and some less, the world needs both.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wolfgango1991#p/c/9F1E498167E3D674 - for thy mozart


may there be peace,
fedde

or perhaps... :)

or perhaps i'm not going crazy at all (though the world will - mind you). Sometimes one goes through hard times without noticing it really. Luckily sometimes my spiritual teachers and friends are always there. (I oftentimes think of the fact that the Triple Jewel saved my life in a sense.) They can sometimes help on ways they might not even have intended or imagined.

just in the hope people take some time and listen to some wonderful Dharma songs:
http://dharmasound.net/?type=photo&paths=Photos/Z0908BFR/Dharma-Songs-Video&mode=folder

So, i'll make new mistakes... and make new vows. I'll constantly fail, and will constantly be desparetely going back in respect. But one vow will stay strong above all: i'm NOT going to stop coming back to goodness... i'll never stop trying, i promise.

in gratefulness to my dharma friends and dharma teachers, to the Triple Jewel,
their disciple and friend,
fedde