1. Have a long walk with someone

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    Life is full of uncertainties; we’ll never know when our time on earth is up until it’s over. So take many pics, laugh much… Take time to look up at the stars. Have a long walk with someone…Feel the cold wind… Smile a lot and love like you’ve never been hurt. Every 60 seconds you miss is a minute of happiness you’ll never get back. ~Terry

     

     

  2. Difference between apple cider and apple juice

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    There are a few states that do spell out a distinct difference between apple cider and juice. For example, the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources specifies that “Fresh cider is raw apple juice that has not undergone a filtration process to remove coarse particles of pulp or sediment …. Apple juice is juice that has been filtered to remove solids and pasteurized so that it will stay fresh longer.”

    Cider from these states is probably what most of us picture: an opaque, highly perishable apple drink available at farm stands and markets in the fall. It’s juice, but unfiltered and sometimes unpasteurized. In unpasteurized apple cider, naturally occurring yeasts can cause fermentation, making the drink slightly fizzy and alcoholic over time. Apple juice in these states, on the other hand, is much more clear and pasteurized.  Source: The Kitchn | Link source

     

     

  3. The benefits of vegetable soup

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    Eating healthy vegetable soup provides you with an additional benefit from a weight coupled with fluid retention perspective; soups which have a foundation of leeks, onions together with celery are generally significantly rich in the mineral potassium. Since potassium helps to bind excess sodium, it will help to rid the body of surplus fluid. As many of us carry fluid and so frequently feel bloated due to a high-salt diet as well as insufficient activity, lowering as little as 500g of body weight after a few vegetable soups, although it really is only just fluid often makes us feel lighter and leaner instantly. Vegetable soups are effective due to their stimulating and health qualities, nevertheless soups generally speaking are excellent simply because they help restore the essential water balance, which often will help keep our blood pressure and salt content under control.

    Source: The Soupery | Link source

  4. Another beautiful day

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    I’m thankful for waking up to another beautiful day. If you’re living and breathing, then there’s nothing to be depressed about. I will sleep deeply and wake up full of energy. Life is not lived in the past, neither is it lived wandering in future. Life is for today, and it is today. ~Unknown

  5. Tomato ‘Margherita’

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    The best saladette tomato for cooking, Tomato Margherita offers plentiful tomatoes 5 to 6 inches long, thin-skinned and packed with meaty flavor. The plant is quite disease-resistant, for heavy yields all at once — ideal for canning and juicing. Delicious fresh but indescribably good when roasted, Margherita is made for cooking. The fruit ripens uniformly and is quite attractive, with dark red color and vitamin-packed flesh.

    Source: Folia | Link source

     

     

  6. Life is a canvas

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    Life is a Canvas. Every action of ours is a stroke of paint and at the end, how beautiful our painting is will depend upon all our strokes, all our Actions. ~Unknown

  7. 5 reasons to eat more tomatoes

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    1. Load up on lycopene

    The antioxidant properties of lycopene may protect our immune cells from destructive free radicals, molecules that can harm cells and damage DNA. The best way to get lycopene—which is in the skin, and gives red tomatoes their rich colour—is through cooked or processed tomatoes (juice, sauce and paste). Cook tomatoes with a little healthy oil (e.g., olive or canola), which helps carry the lycopene into the bloodstream.

    2. Care for your heart

    Tomatoes are rich in vitamin C, which, like lycopene, is linked to reducing the risk of heart disease. Most of the vitamin C is concentrated in the jelly-like substance that encases the seeds. Tomatoes are also high in salicylates, which have an anti-clotting effect on the blood, and may be partially responsible for tomatoes’ protective effect against heart disease. Many recipes advise removing the seeds to prevent a bitter flavour. But to conserve nutrients, use plum tomatoes, which have less-bitter seeds.

    3. Help control asthma

    A new Australian study found that adequate intake of lycopene and vitamin A helped reduce exercise-induced asthma symptoms.

    4. Feed your bones

    Tomatoes contain vitamin K, which plays a key role in clotting blood and maintaining strong bones. And, research from Boston University found that vitamin K deficiency is linked to a higher prevalence of hand and knee osteoarthritis.

    5. Add vitamin A

    Vitamin A helps maintain healthy skin, hair, mucous membrances, bones and teeth. One cup (250 mL) of chopped tomatoes provides over half of the recommended daily amount of vitamin A for women.

    Source: Best Health
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  8. Time has always taught us a lesson

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    Value those friends who gave you good memories. Don’t ever change them for any material things in this world. Time has always taught us a lesson. Once you have disappointed them, you will hardly find a way to call an old friend when the time comes that will you need them. ~Unknown

     

     

  9. Memory and love of our lost ones

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    A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us. ~Unknown

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  10. The Story of Kosambi Bhikkhus

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    buddha and monks - AriyamaggaVerse 6: People, other than the wise, do not realize, “We in this world must all die,” (and, not realizing it, continue their quarrels). The wise realize it and thereby their quarrels cease.

    1. Pare ca na vijananti: ‘Pare’ means ‘others’; in this context, people other than the wise. These people do not realize that they must die, and behave as if they were never going to die and keep on quarrelling. Therefore, they are sometimes referred to as the ignorant or the foolish, or those who are not worthy of love and respect.

    2. mayamettha yamamase: lit., “We here must die,” meaning we, of this world, must die; or all men are mortal.

    3. ye ca tattha vijananti: in the case of those who understand, meaning the wise. The wise understand (or realize) that all men are mortal.

    While residing at the Jetavana monastery in Savatthi, the Buddha uttered Verse (6) of this book, with reference to the bhikkhus of Kosambi.

    The bhikkhus of Kosambi had formed into two groups. One group followed the master of Vinaya and the other followed the teacher of the Dhamma and they were often quarrelling among themselves. Even the Buddha could not stop them from quarrelling; so he left them and spent the vassa, residence period of the rains, all alone in Rakkhita Grove near Palileyyaka forest. There, the elephant Palileyya waited upon the Buddha.

    The lay disciples of Kosambi, on learning the reason for the departure of the Buddha, refused to make offerings to the remaining bhikkhus. This made them realize their mistake and reconciliation took place among themselves. Still, the lay disciples would not treat them as respectfully as before, until they owned up their fault to the Buddha. But the Buddha was away and it was in the middle of the vassa; so the bhikkhus of Kosambi spent the vassa in misery and hardship.

    At the end of the vassa, the Venerable Ananda and five hundred bhikkhus approached the Buddha and gave the message from Annathapindika and other lay disciples imploring him to return. In due course the Buddha returned to the Jetavana monastery in Savatthi. The bhikkhus followed him there, fell down at his feet, and owned up their fault. The Buddha rebuked them for disobeying him. He told them to remember that they must all die some day and therefore, they must stop their quarrels and must not act as if they would never die.

    Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

    Verse 6: People, other than the wise, do not realize, “We in this world must all die,” (and, not realizing it, continue their quarrels). The wise realize it and thereby their quarrels cease.

    At the end of the discourse, all the assembled bhikkhus were established in Sotapatti Fruition.

    Dhammapada Verse 6
    Kosambaka Vatthu

    Pare ca na vijananti1
    mayamettha yamamase2
    ye ca tattha vijananti3
    tato sammanti medhaga.

    Source: Tipitaka

     

Hermit of Tbeng Mountain

Sachjang Phnom Tbeng សច្ចំ​​ ភ្នំត្បែង is a very long and interesting story written by Mr. Chhea Sokoan, read by Jendhamuni Sos. You can click on the links below to listen. Part 1 | Part 2

List of Khmer songs