1. Followed by lay practitioners for their entire lives, these five precepts are to abandon killing, stealing, unwise and unkind sexual behavior, lying, and taking intoxicants.
2. The eight precepts are similar to the five except the third precept is celibacy. The three additional precepts are not wearing perfumes and ornaments or singing, dancing, or playing music; not sitting on high or expensive seats or beds; and not eating after midday until dawn the following day.
1. Those with the highest class tantra empowerment do the visualization for consecrating the inner offering.
2. The Middle Way Consequence school (Prasangika Madhyamaka) defines nirvana with and without remainder differently, where the remainder is the false appearance of inherent existence.
3. If you do tantric practice, imagine being the deity and the offering goddesses emanating from your heart.
1. Vipassana means “insight” and is a meditation technique practiced in all Buddhist traditions. In the West the term has come to refer to meditation centers who practice a type of Vipassana meditation derived from Theravada Buddhism in Thailand and Burma (Myanmar).
1. For more information, visit the webpages of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (https://www.nesri.org/programs/what-is-the-human-right-to-food) and the World Hunger Education Service (http://www.worldhunger.org/right-food-basic-human-right/).
1. Take a look at Bob’s now-expanded website, http://www.balancedweightmanagement.com/index.html. Learn the key principles of his book at http://www.balancedweightmanagement.com/WhyTryMyApproach.htm and http://www.balancedweightmanagement.com/Lighter%20and%20Free%20Description%20%20Piece.pdf.
2. See Maureen T. McGuire, Rena R. Wing, Mary L. Klem, Wei Lang, and James O. Hill, “What Predicts Weight Regain in Group of Successful Weight Losers?” Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 67, no. 2 (1999): 177–85.
3. See Roy F. Baumeister, “Yielding to Temptation: Self-Control Failure, Impulsive Purchasing, and Consumer Behavior,” Journal of Consumer Research 28, no. 4 (2002): 670–76.
4. This conclusion is from a series of studies alluded to in David A. Levitsky, “The Non-Regulation of Food Intake in Humans: Hope for Reversing the Epidemic of Obesity,” Physiology & Behavior 86, no. 5 (December 2005): 623–32.
5. See James O. Hill and John C. Peters, “Environmental Contributions to the Obesity Epidemic,” Science 280, no. 5368 (May 1998): 1371–74.
6. Leann L. Birch and Jennifer O. Fisher, “Mother’s Child-Feeding Practices Influence Daughters’ Eating and Weight,” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 71 (2000): 1054– 61; Leann L. Birch, Linda McPhee, B. C. Shoba, Lois Steinberg, and Ruth Krehbiel, “Clean Up Your Plate: Effects of Child Feeding Practices on the Conditioning of Meal Size,” Learning and Motivation 18, no. 3 (1987): 301–17.