PATIENCE
…is the essence-the art of waiting, an acquired skill like no other, mastered and overcome by Buddhists in not only their meditation but in their way of life; much to the admiration of many. Suffered by us more ordinary people to extremes in our daily lives at transport stops, dentist’s surgeries, shopping lines and other such places to blight and subsequently disrupt our routines.

We endure the tedium of waiting for something to happen, most times whether we like it or not, and the only way to defeat this mental anguish is to look to the Buddhist for the answer, and as much as we can, practice acceptance of our situation, knowing everything is changing (and the line to Nirvana is getting shorter).

THOSE RESOLUTIONS
To look in the mirror on New Year’s morning and make those promises to yourself to lose that fat on your stomach is courage and cowardice combined; courage to actually look, and cowardice to know what you have to suffer to put things right.

THE HURT
The remarks from the woman on the bus about the remaining term of your pregnancy would be funny if she wasn’t serious-that hurt. I’ll bet you smiled and said ‘It will soon be over’, just to numb your embarrassment.
Or, if you’re the guy, laughed at by the athletic types at the swimming pool-the skinny dipping/chunky dumping jokes, those gys have never been over-weight and it showed.

THE ART
The art of slimming, although it is really a skill rather than an art, is to introduce four factors into your daily life to effect a permanent physical and mental change. Rather like an intravenous injection of positivity and knowledge and stuff.

1. Diet: the control of food intake and not food restriction as is believed by most people, is one quarter of the equation.

2. Vitamins: To play a part in the chemical rejuvenation of your body, and assistant you in preventing and fighting illnesses, essential for the over forties in large doses, and advisable for those under forty; although restricted in this group to the essential vitamins to augment their own immune system.

3. Exercise: Forget those poor creatures on Reality TV who are made to perform grueling and unnecessary slog-it-out sweat routines like performing bears, just to lose weight as soon as possible to win a prize. The tears are real and their suffering shows, but that’s TV and it’s anything goes for high-ratings. Nevertheless, who would watch if the contestants did their slimming routines with thought, patience and a happy disposition; encouraging others to tread their path? Nobody would watch, that’s who.

4. Patience: The Chinese inherited, not only philosophy from their ancestors, but a method of acquiring outstanding expertise. Have you seen those plates balancing on bamboo sticks, or watched a skilled kung fu master (without Hollywood effects) demonstrating his forms? Their way of getting to perfection is by practicing the little-by-little technique. The art of patience. Climb the ladder rung by rung, and with patience you will reach the top. If you hurry you will slip and find yourself on the bottom rung again.

NEW YEAR’S DAY
Now back to that person looking in the mirror on New Year’s Day, about to make a resolution to be slim. What does he or she say to themself?

“I will commence a weight reducing program with all the necessary disciplines that it may demand, and I realize that to make my goal loss of a thirty-pounds (or whatever) I will have to be patient and wait until Spring arrives when I shall reap the rewards, and treat myself with a new designer outfit.”

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