Essay name: Ahara as depicted in the Pancanikaya
Author:
Le Chanh
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages
This critical study of Ahara (鈥渇ood鈥�) explores its significance in Buddhism, encompassing both physical and mental nourishment. The Panca Nikaya, part of the Sutta Pitaka, highlights how all human problems, including suffering and happiness, are connected to Ahara. Understanding this concept is crucial for comprehending and alleviating suffering, aiming for a balanced, enlightened life.
Chapter 5 - Buddhist view on man and his Aharas
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effect on his outward appearance as well as on his physical well-being.
An ideal diet should provide adequate quantities of all the nutrients
essential to health and beauty. Beauty fitness really does start from
within. It is the quality and the right kind of naturally available foods you
eat that will help prevent premature aging or reduce its effects. If one
wants to maintain his outer glow, then beauty food is his main ally. Yes,
eating the right kind of food will help you to look his most youthful and
beautiful.
People believe that food content will make them gain fine and sound
beauty of body. There is no doubt that all of us want to look beautiful,
slim and fit. One has to exercise sufficiently to look good. But it is
important to eat the right kind of diet to look beautiful. The nutrients or
some foods, which are of particular importance for beauty, are healthy
and help in enhancing your looks.
In modern viewpoint, all vitamins, proteins and other contents as
enumerated are ingredients to make the beauty of body. However, for
human beings, caring about beauty is more complex and fussy; they not
only consume enough dainty food contents, but also often rely on
cosmetics made of chemical substance, nice clothes, and even cosmetic
surgery. Human beings always prove to be worried and interested in
making beauty by this or another way, and they are really tired by or
attach special importance to beauty and unsightliness of physical
appearance, they ignore its change and uselessness after death, and do not
know that 'before long, alas! this body will lie in the earth, despised,
without understanding, like a useless log.
,408
In Buddhism, Lord Buddha did not overplay care about beauty by
the forms as said, but He really notices the art of living, art for life's sake
408 Dhp., Verse No. 41.
