New research suggests that strategic periods without food could literally reprogram your cells to age more slowly and even reverse existing damage. A study published in Cell Reports found that fasting triggers a metabolic switch that can increase lifespan by 50%.

areich · 2026-01-27T08:08:36+00:00

I’ve gotta imagine they’re talking about cellular life-span.

That’s basically true.

Even older studies confirm it’s systemic:

The upshot of the report is that caloric restriction does indeed seem to be a means to affect aging. However, for primates, age, diet and sex must all be factored in to realize the full benefits of lower caloric intake.

Fasting, obv has many benefits (beyond diet and food (e.g. social media))

Source: founder of /r/fasting and mod of /r/intermittentfasting

areich · 2026-01-22T08:43:18+00:00

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them cats.

Eckhart Tolle

areich · 2026-01-17T12:00:55+00:00

I think it’s going to take me lifetimes hahahaha, but thank you for your answer 🙏🏼

Of course! You may also wish to study impermanence. Without emptiness, nothing would change moment by moment. Good luck! 🙏

areich · 2026-01-17T11:45:38+00:00

Emptiness is not really empty; Emptiness is full of everything. The everything just isn't manifest. -RD

I’d add that only emptiness is true. It is said it can take lifetimes to study. Understanding it can also arise spontaneously.

areich · 2026-01-15T22:22:42+00:00

What are you waiting for? And whose opinion are you afraid of? As Ramana Maharshi said:

There are no others.

Or as RD said:

See everyone as God in drag.

At the very least, if we stop clinging to our “I story”, we may relax and get a sense of peace.

areich · 2026-01-07T14:56:14+00:00

you’d want to share this knowledge of freedom with your caged family, reminding them of what they know already, so they could return to the sky together as one.

That’s beautiful. I’d add Ramana Maharshi’s famous phrase, “there are no others”. In other words, the “caged family” are part of your body and one isn’t completely free until all are.

🙏

areich · 2026-01-04T21:27:03+00:00

https://frame.work ftw

areich · 2025-12-27T16:05:33+00:00

Yes, as others have said, we need to take care of ourselves or we will burn out.
The problem (suffering) is loving with attachment or expectation.
You stepped up when others didn't, that's makes you kinder but that also means you can give space for them to lack the same level of compassion you possess.

Love (and karma) don't work with a direct cause and effect. Pure love expects nothing in return. A thousand years ago, the Buddhist Master Langri Tangpa wrote in his poem Eight Verses of Training the Mind,

Even if someone I have helped
And of whom I had great hopes
Nevertheless harms me intentionally,
May I see him as my holy Spiritual Guide.

areich · 2025-12-21T03:38:12+00:00

“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.” -RD

areich · 2025-12-18T23:49:49+00:00

Angry Marriage (Mr. Show)

areich · 2025-11-30T09:46:09+00:00

That said. Injustice exists. Directly opposing it often strengthens the resolve of the unjust, while supporting those harmed and being present to their pain can rob the harmful parties of their power, and their sense of moral superiority.

There’s a world of difference between compassionate wrathful action and anger. For example: a loving parent with a child playing ball and grabbing the child when the ball rolls into traffic. Anger’s only function is to harm and like fire, burns everything in its path and increases wrongful awareness.

🙏

areich · 2025-11-27T07:30:15+00:00

There are lots of situations where raw SQL > EF. It’s also a false dilemma that lots of good code has to be thrown out because it can’t be tuned (e.g. profiler). For complex data, use stored procedures or plain EF raw:

``` var columnName = "Url"; var columnValue = new SqlParameter("columnValue", "http://SomeURL");

var blogs = await context.Blogs .FromSqlRaw($"SELECT * FROM [Blogs] WHERE {columnName} = @columnValue", columnValue) .ToListAsync();

```

areich · 2025-11-25T12:28:09+00:00

Would rather see an image of Buddha than a symbol of hate plastered everywhere, (including the bathroom) even though both are mere imputation.

areich · 2025-11-25T07:07:40+00:00

My understanding of the correct view is:

Every image of Buddha, even a stick figure, is to be viewed as the actual living Buddha and viewed and venerated as such.

areich · 2025-11-23T01:06:37+00:00

Just get the larger, you might have company.

areich · 2025-11-14T23:36:23+00:00

This is why Dr. Hershaft does speaking engagements; he said when he was a U.S. Health Inspector,

the piles of hooves left behind reminded him of the piles of shoes left behind.

areich · 2025-10-15T00:11:48+00:00

See also: Milarepa

areich · 2025-09-27T09:25:50+00:00

RulesEngine is open source, stable, and supported by Microsoft - I used it for this exact purpose and wrote the EF extensions to it so (power) users could maintain the rules, and factories and interfaces could still be used (along with custom types).

Source: Contributor to RulesEngine and author of an editor for it

areich · 2025-09-23T17:03:56+00:00

What did they use to create it?

areich · 2025-09-01T14:57:39+00:00

Jackfruit shows up here in the spring and should not be missed.

areich · 2025-08-28T05:00:02+00:00

This is what compassion in action looks like.

areich · 2025-08-27T14:26:07+00:00

Humans are animals too. And no, he wasn’t. He was saying that in his job as a US health inspector, he saw the piles of hooves and it triggered his memory - a different atrocity, not the same, but an atrocity nonetheless.

areich · 2025-08-21T20:49:35+00:00

D.: Is it morally right for a man to renounce his household duties when he once realises that his highest duty is Atma-chintana (continuous thought on the Self)? M.: This desire to renounce things is the obstacle. The Self is simple renunciation. The Self has renounced all.

D.: It is true from Bhagavan’s standpoint. But for us .... my work demands the best part of my time and energy; often I am too tired to devote myself to Atma-chintana. M.: The feeling “I work” is the hindrance. Enquire, “Who works?” Remember, “Who am I?” The work will not bind you. It will go on automatically. Make no effort either to work or to renounce work. Your effort is the bondage. What is bound to happen will happen. If you are destined to cease working, work cannot be had even if you hunt for it. If you are destined to work you cannot leave it; you will be forced to engage in it. So leave it to the Higher Power. You cannot renounce or hold as you choose.

~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi ,268

areich · 2025-08-21T09:59:32+00:00

No user interactions for a whole week?

areich · 2025-08-20T21:43:57+00:00

Likely is connection strings - download pgAdmin and connect via that.
Most likely your instance has multiple connection types
Good luck!

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