>I also once saw a head Abbot at a Rinzai Zen temple in Japan who was >overweight. Buddhist monks work on not being attached to anything, >especially food. Well, this head Abbot might have thought he was exempt >from the doctrine of non-attachment as he was obviously attached to eating >and did not get fat on air alone.
I am not a fat monk, but i play one on TV :-) Anyway, there is a genetic disorder that causes either a lack of, or an overabundance of the hormone that tells people that they're hungry. It is VERY difficult for these people to stop eating, because the stomach always tells the brain that it is hungry. I don't apologize for all fat monks, but there are all kinds of reasonable western explanations too as to why people eat to excess. There are some genetic explanations too. I see some aspects of Karma as explained by psycho-social history and genetics. Some of us have much larger attachments to overcome than others. > <http://home.golden.net/~samu> < > There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. < ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/S27xlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration, Right Livelihood Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZenForum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
