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“Mal-acclimatization to very high altitudes is the enemy of mental and physical health in the sea level adapted human.”

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“The bedding given to each monk is one broad futon or quilt wadded with cotton-wool, which is about six feet square in size. He wraps himself in this only, even in the midst of the cold winter, and sleeps from 9 p.m. till about 3.30 in the morning. For the pillow he uses a pair of small cushions, each about two feet square, on which during the daytime he sits and keeps up his meditation. As soon as he wakes, the bedding is put up to the common shelf overhead.”

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Book:The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk
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“These days, training is increasingly about getting a horse to work “with” us instead of “for” us, and that takes knowledge, not just of what a horse can do and be made to do, but how a horse thinks and can learn to trust us.”

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