31asb daily mandatory asubha - no excuse not to do this, even if you're a busy layperson

If you're serious about your Buddhist practice,

there's no excuse to skip daily mandatory asubha practice,

thinking it's too hardcore,

only for monastics and yogis,

and whatever other rationalization or lame excuse one comes up with.

If you have to eat, you have to excrete.

If you're reasonably healthy and you eat every day,

you probably also excrete (solids and liquids) several times every day.

Don't waste this precious gift staring you in the face every time you go to the bathroom.

Even if you are the busiest person in the world working 12 hours a day 7 days a week,

what are you doing that's so critical and life threatening that you can't set aside 30 seconds or 60 seconds to

deepen your asubha practice?

Why aren't Buddhists all doing asubha every time they get the gift?

Because their defilements find facing the truth about the shit they carry around all day un-pleasant, ugly, un-attractive (a-subha)

and they want to instead pretend [a deluded] life is wonderful, interesting, beautiful (subha).

Real beauty is realizing truth and being free of delusions.

Real happiness truly is wonderful, interesting, and beautiful,

and correct asubha practice is one of the main practices that gets you there.

Does being king or queen make your brown loaf more beautiful, powerful, and better smelling than a peasant's?

Is a supermodel's loaf super beautiful and super aromatic?

Here's a safe asubha anyone can do everyday

It only takes a few seconds to contemplate this.

Is that brown loaf you just dropped into the bowl beautiful?

Does it smell nice?

If you spend 2 hours a day grooming your hair,

perfuming your skin,

making yourself subha (attractive, beautiful),

are you still beautiful when that brown loaf is sitting in your intestines,

its visibility and wonderful aroma blocked only by a few thin layers of skin and mucous?

Or are you only beautiful now that you've liberated that brown loaf?

Is anyone here to witness your "real" beauty?

What about the food in your stomach that's already in the process of baking a new brown loaf?

Are you ever pure and beautiful?

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