🔗📝🦍☯Dharma: four mobile truths to supplement the 4 noble ones

 

4👑☸ → ☯🦍 → qigor 🦍☯Dharma

I'm in the process of assembling  various articles on exercises to help sitting meditators into a single book.

It's a work in progress, won't be in a state I'd really want to print into a book for another 10 years, but a gorilla (guerrilla) is all about usefulness and practicality.

People need to know important info now, not  in 10 years.

🦍☯ You can see from the yin yang symbol, that it's differentiated and  segregated from EBT Buddha Dhamma.

It's not even on lucid24.org main page, you have to dig down a level through misc. to get to it.

I pun on 4 mobile truths and mobile eightfold path to borrow the memory structure of things serious Buddhists have already memorized, to aid memory of important health and exercise principles,

gorilla Dharma is in no way intended to replace Buddha Dharma or imply the Buddha is deficient in some way. 

Where the Taoists and Buddhists tend to differ on the issue of physical health, 

the Taoists believe you need a healthy physical body to attain enlightenment.

The Buddha offered very little in terms of physical exercise other than walking a lot, eating in moderation, and alternating between walking, standing, and sitting postures as needed (without giving any detail on how). 

The impression one gets in the Buddha's suttas, is that one should be assiduous (appamada) all the time, giving the Dharma everything you got every moment, even at the expense of physical health from lack of plentiful sleep and nutrition. 

Better to die prematurely from poor physical health and have the right mindset to urgently strive for nirvana,

while developing grit, mental toughness to bear the natural pains that come with aging and decay, 

than to risk investing too much energy and time preserving a physical body one will have to discard in short time (even if one lives to be 120 yr), and becoming attached to a body, attached to comfort and health. 

Between those two extremes (of Taoist and Buddhist), there's the fact that you can't experience quality 4 jhānas, without a sufficiently healthy body. 

So unless you're a masochist, it is of value to learn some health principles from western and eastern medical science that will allow you to practice the pleasurable way of practice in EBT Buddhism, whether it's slow or fast. (AN 4 sutta ref. I believe for 4 ways of practice).