Monk Cookie Blog Chicken

I regularly check on the "stats" for my blog--how many people are looking at it, what entries they're looking at, and what search parameters they use that lead them to my blog.  Someone googled "Monk Cookie Blog Chicken" and found me the other day.  How odd. 

This, of course, has nothing to do with this post...or does it?  I'm reading an advanced copy of Dr. Sanjay Guptas' new book Chasing Life.  It's excellent.  How did I get an advanced copy?  I'm a bookseller, of course.  It's one of the perks, though usually I see new romance novels or other kinds of "chic lit" on the back table for us to peruse.  So, I picked up Dr. Gupta's book and it's really interesting.  In one chapter, he talks about Okinawa and how the island has an unusually high percentage of octogenarians (sp?), almost no prostate or breast cancer, and older people remaining mentally and physically healthy well into old age.  Apparently it's their diet.  They eat a lot more food, but food that is less dense (food with more water in it) and they only eat until 80% full.  I'm going to have to give that a try.  I've eaten my way back to the same weight I was before my retreat--about 178 pounds.  More cookies than chicken, but there's the connection to the title of this entry.

In response to that, I've started exercising again.  I'm doing just a little to start with late at night before bed, but we'll see how that goes.  The problem with exercise is that it's so dang boring.  I've tried yoga, martial arts, running, tai chi, and always ended up bored to tears.  The lamas always recommend prostrations as you get exercise and merit, but there's no floor space in my room, and when I have time to exercise and practice all the other buildings on campus are closed.  Anyway, I'd like to loose about 15 pounds or so.  It sounds strange talking about loosing weight as growing up I couldn't gain weight at all.  When I was 19 I was 5' 7" (same height I am now) and as little as 110 pounds.

So Chasing Life comes out this April.  Check it out.

Added note:  Danny has a new interview on his blog on Unitarian Universalist Buddhism with Jeff Wilson.  Check it out, too.

Another added note:  Danny just finished a video about U. West.  I'm in it at the end.  You can view it here.

Comments

[Tom Robertson]

offering a stone

[Konchog Yeshe]

Try Tae-Bo! It's a fusion of yoga, karate and aerobics of some sort. :)

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