Have you ever fasted?

where was this?
confession - i always wanted to go to some tibetan monk place (karate kid style) and just do yoga all day and live simply for a couple months. that sounds like a really valley girl "deep" moment, sorry, but i really do.

 

You don't need to join a monastery to leave simply, to live in peace, or to live in silence.

 

thats true. but personally, i know i couldnt do it anywhere i am familiar with.
I dont want to do it alone, either. but i want to be with people who are after the same thing. just in an environment thats conducive to that sort of unattached living. i dont have that at home, and i wouldnt just pick up and go somewhere by myself.

 

Not doing it alone is like not doing it at all.

 

It was in Kaufman, which is near Dallas. Has a ten day program where you can stay and meditate. I didn't make it through, and honestly, I went because of a girl. Now that I'm more mature I'd like to go back.

http://www.siri.dhamma.org/

I actually now a place in California where you can stay for a few months in exchange for working for them. They'll give you a bed and feed 'ya.

Check it out.

http://www.odiyan.org/

 

what's "it"? meditation? finding peace? you can do that anywhere, as you said, including among people.
i personally would do something like this only to forget about my life for a while and put things into perspective, calm the whole system down, and do some introspection-y type thinking. Id have to leave my home in order to actually tear myself away from my life, but i think if i were really out in the middle of nowhere by myself, id be more paranoid and go crazy than just let go and be peaceful. that said, i dont see it happening anytime soon because i dont have the balls yet. so. eh.

hmm california could be ok. that program is actually pretty funky

 

30 days every year since I was 10.

feels great, great discipline, good times.

 

you dont eat at all during Ramadan?

 

sun rise to sun set. it's going to start at the end of august this year. longer day.

 

i got sick a month ago and didnt eat for like two weeks well after the first week i would eat like half a sandwich or something small like that once a day or every other day i just lost all desier to eat

 

Nope, never.

I've never wanted to and besides, my parents wouldn't let me because they say I'm too young.

 

Sometimes say midnight til 3pm the next day.

But usually I'd take some protein nowadays inbetween.

Actually fasting can be good eg say after a massive night drinking etc.
Or if I'm really focused on sthg.

 

I went one day without anything at all. I didn't drink anything, I didn't chew a piece of gum...nothing. I was severely depressed at the time. My parents realized that I hadn't had anything that day because a teacher called them and told them that she nor any other teacher saw me eat that day. (I was being watched because of suspicions about and eating disorder.....that I had)

Umm other than that yeah I've gone days without food but I drink juices and such.

 

i know everyone says eat a greasy meal when you're hungover, but i do a mini-fast instead, i usually dont have interest in food, and prefer to just stick to water/tea until dinner, usually. (part of it is that i usually feel guilty about all the alcohol)

 

Only in my self destructive eating disorder days. But that wasn't fasting, that was starving.

Now, if I tried to go without eating for a day, I'd probably pass out. I'm really active, and I need that fuel or else I'm crashing, and I can't do that when I'm taking care of three kids and a house.