Dough, sauce, cheese, meats and veggies. There’s a lot happening on top of that pizza. I must admit I love them. Pizza is one of my favorite foods. I’m sure a significant portion of my extra weight can be measured in pizza consumption. Today, while enjoying stumbleupon to kill some time and find random things [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Pizza Without Regrets
Posted in Weight Loss, tagged healthy cooking, recipes, vegetarianism, weight loss on December 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Happy Rohatsu
Posted in Buddhism, tagged Buddhism, dharma, meditation, suffering on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the eighth day of the twelfth month. In Japanese, that’s what Rohatsu means. Why is that important? Because it’s also Bodhi day. This is the day where Buddhists commemorate the historical Buddha gaining enlightenment. The Buddha had spent the previous few years living a life of extreme asceticism where he practically starved himself to [...]
Getting Close
Posted in Weight Loss, tagged health, weight loss on December 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s nice to see the numbers on the scale going a little lower each day. Especially after going away for a weekend to Boston where there was fast food, breakfast buffets and things that are generally not beneficial towards healthy eating. I think I can safely say I’m back in the swing of things when [...]
Why Buddhism? Part 2
Posted in Buddhism, Meditation, Savor, tagged Buddhism, dharma, meditation, sangha, suffering, Zen on December 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This is the second part in a multi-part post about why I started following a Buddhist path. As I said in my last post, I had left my faith behind but I still had a lot of questions about suffering and the nature of suffering. I was still suffering and was dealing with depression, excess [...]
