How to eat a tangerine.

This is all the more true of eating a cherry.

Couldn't resist that.

;0)

George Cherry said:

You are all intelligent children and I am sure
you will be able to understand and practice the things I will share with
you. The Great Path I have discovered is deep and subtle, but anyone
willing to apply his or her heart and mind can understand and follow it.

When you children peel a tangerine, you can eat it with awareness or
without awareness. What does it mean to eat a tangerine in awareness?
When you are eating the tangerine, you are aware that you are eating
the tangerine. You fully experience its lovely fragrance and sweet taste.
When you peel the tangerine, you know that you are peeling the
tangerine; when you remove a slice and put it in your mouth, you know
that you are removing a slice and putting it in your mouth; when you
experience the lovely fragrance and sweet taste of the tangerine, you are
aware that you are experiencing the lovely fragrance and sweet taste of
the tangerine. The tangerine I ate this morning had nine sections. I
ate each morsel in awareness and saw how precious and wonderful it
was. I did not forget the tangerine and thus the tangerine became
something very real to me If the tangerine is real, the person eating it is
real. That is what it means to eat a tangerine in awareness.

COMMENT:

Starving people have told me that they approach that kind of
food-awareness, but I think I'd like to reserve that level of focus for
thinking about science, or writing, or social interaction. I think we
all have only so much "first-order" concentration power to draw from,
like a well with limited water, and if you waste it on a flipping
tangerine, your love-life is going to suffer. And so perhaps there we
come down to what I suspect is the real problem of the Buddhist monks
who teach this kind of stuff: I think they need to get laid, *real*
bad.

SBH

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George Cherry said:

You are all intelligent children and I am sure
you will be able to understand and practice the things I will share with
you. The Great Path I have discovered is deep and subtle, but anyone
willing to apply his or her heart and mind can understand and follow it.

When you children peel a tangerine, you can eat it with awareness or
without awareness. What does it mean to eat a tangerine in awareness?
When you are eating the tangerine, you are aware that you are eating
the tangerine. You fully experience its lovely fragrance and sweet taste.
When you peel the tangerine, you know that you are peeling the
tangerine; when you remove a slice and put it in your mouth, you know
that you are removing a slice and putting it in your mouth; when you
experience the lovely fragrance and sweet taste of the tangerine, you are
aware that you are experiencing the lovely fragrance and sweet taste of
the tangerine. The tangerine I ate this morning had nine sections. I
ate each morsel in awareness and saw how precious and wonderful it
was. I did not forget the tangerine and thus the tangerine became
something very real to me If the tangerine is real, the person eating it
is
real. That is what it means to eat a tangerine in awareness.

COMMENT:

Starving people have told me that they approach that kind of
food-awareness, but I think I'd like to reserve that level of focus for
thinking about science, or writing, or social interaction. I think we
all have only so much "first-order" concentration power to draw from,
like a well with limited water, and if you waste it on a flipping
tangerine, your love-life is going to suffer. And so perhaps there we
come down to what I suspect is the real problem of the Buddhist monks
who teach this kind of stuff: I think they need to get laid, *real*
bad.

When you do science, just do science. When you eat a
tangerine, just eat the tangerine. And when you get laid,
just get laid.

BTW, Steve, have you ever tried to make ice cream in
your cryogenic devices? A grad student at MIT has, and
she's come up with a great dish. Yum, yum! Go to

http://web.mit.edu/deshpandecenter/newsletters/2005_04.html

and search on that page for ice cream. Hey, these kids
need to have some fun.

George

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This is all the more true of eating a cherry.

Couldn't resist that.

Okay, sweetie pie. Your country or mine?

GWC

George Cherry said:

When you do science, just do science. When you eat a
tangerine, just eat the tangerine. And when you get laid,
just get laid.

COMMENT:

Oh, I do. But when eating, at least, I like to think about those other
things. No sense devoting full attention to food during the time it
ordinarly takes to prepare and eat--- I don't have that much time.
Perhaps if eating and preparing food or attending to other various
bodily tasks is EXACTLY as important to you as anything else you do,
that wouldn't be true. But I have heirarchies of stuff that I'm
interested in.

Now, the attention needed for a superb meal is different. But that's
one reason one should never mix really good food with good conversation
(or any conversation). If you do, one or the other always ends up
getting shorted. I can remember some very extravagant meals out that I
hardly tasted.

Quoted message said:

BTW, Steve, have you ever tried to make ice cream in
your cryogenic devices? A grad student at MIT has, and
she's come up with a great dish. Yum, yum! Go to

http://web.mit.edu/deshpandecenter/newsletters/2005_04.html

and search on that page for ice cream. Hey, these kids
need to have some fun.

COMMENT:

That's an OLD trick among chemists. Several times I have taken a dewer
of liquid nitrogen, fresh cream and milk, powdered sugar, eggs, and
many kinds of fresh fruit and other flavorings (chocolate, coconut,
vanilla) to a friends' house, and made "instant liquid nitrogen ice
cream" for the kids and all party-goers. It's smoother than anything
you can buy, if you do it right. I've never been able to buy blueberry
ice cream, but I've MADE some fine blueberry ice cream in about 5
minutes with liquid nitrogen. I really pity the old timers who had to
do it over hours, with rocksalt and cranky machines.

And yes, I managed to pay full attention the whole time. For one thing,
if you spill liquid nitrogen into your shoes, it gives you the
equivalent of a "hot foot" and can produce nasty "burns". There's
nothing like danger to focus attention. And the kids, of course, love
the fog and the fun.

SBH

George Cherry said:

BTW, Steve, have you ever tried to make ice cream in
your cryogenic devices? A grad student at MIT has, and
she's come up with a great dish. Yum, yum! Go to

http://web.mit.edu/deshpandecenter/newsletters/2005_04.html

I forgot to add that we use liquid nitrogen, and this guy uses liquid
carbon dioxide to give a somewhat "fizzy" ice cream. But cryonics and
organbanking experiments run on liquid nitrogen. Liquid CO2 (and solid
CO2) just isn't cold enough.

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Quoted message said:

George Cherry said:

BTW, Steve, have you ever tried to make ice cream in
your cryogenic devices? A grad student at MIT has, and
she's come up with a great dish. Yum, yum! Go to

http://web.mit.edu/deshpandecenter/newsletters/2005_04.html

I forgot to add that we use liquid nitrogen, and this guy uses liquid
carbon dioxide to give a somewhat "fizzy" ice cream. But cryonics and
organbanking experiments run on liquid nitrogen. Liquid CO2 (and solid
CO2) just isn't cold enough.

And you didn't get $50,000 bucks for the idea and
a host of ice cream manufacturer's courting you.

GWC

Sbharrisatsignix.netcom.com said:

there's nothing like [the] danger [of liquid
nitrogen] to focus attention. And the kids,
of course, love the fog and the fun.

See, Steve. That is how you are supposed to write.
Now, where is that child abuse hot line number?

You have my condolences.

Steve, have you ever tried to make ice cream in
your cryogenic devices?

ROFL. That's the funniest thing I've heard all day. Thanks for the
laugh.

George Cherry said:

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Quoted message said:

George Cherry said:

BTW, Steve, have you ever tried to make ice cream in
your cryogenic devices? A grad student at MIT has, and
she's come up with a great dish. Yum, yum! Go to

http://web.mit.edu/deshpandecenter/newsletters/2005_04.html

I forgot to add that we use liquid nitrogen, and this guy uses liquid
carbon dioxide to give a somewhat "fizzy" ice cream. But cryonics and
organbanking experiments run on liquid nitrogen. Liquid CO2 (and solid
CO2) just isn't cold enough.

And you didn't get $50,000 bucks for the idea and
a host of ice cream manufacturer's courting you.

GWC

I know. No fairness in the world. People would rather have fizzy ice
cream than a shot at open-ended life spans. Well, enjoy the cone.

SBH

Visual Purple said:

Steve, have you ever tried to make ice cream in
your cryogenic devices?

ROFL. That's the funniest thing I've heard all day. Thanks for the
laugh.

Boy, you need to get out more.

-- Alcor Frozen Novelties.

Mr-Natural-Health said:

Sbharrisatsignix.netcom.com said:

there's nothing like [the] danger [of liquid
nitrogen] to focus attention. And the kids,
of course, love the fog and the fun.

See, Steve. That is how you are supposed to write.
Now, where is that child abuse hot line number?

We don't let the kids pour it, you ninny. Anymore than we let them run
the barbecue grill.

SBH

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George Cherry said:

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Quoted message said:

George Cherry wrote:
> BTW, Steve, have you ever tried to make ice cream in
> your cryogenic devices? A grad student at MIT has, and
> she's come up with a great dish. Yum, yum! Go to
>
> http://web.mit.edu/deshpandecenter/newsletters/2005_04.html

I forgot to add that we use liquid nitrogen, and this guy uses liquid
carbon dioxide to give a somewhat "fizzy" ice cream. But cryonics and
organbanking experiments run on liquid nitrogen. Liquid CO2 (and solid
CO2) just isn't cold enough.

And you didn't get $50,000 bucks for the idea and
a host of ice cream manufacturer's courting you.

GWC

I know. No fairness in the world. People would rather have fizzy ice
cream than a shot at open-ended life spans. Well, enjoy the cone.

Cone, cone! Never! I'd never eat a cone for the
same reason I wouldn't eat a cookie or a cracker.
They're made of refined flour, often sweetened
with sugar, and they violate my rule of "No food
with a calorie density higher than 1 calorie/gram--
unless the food contains a high quality fat". (That
rule rules out almost all junk food.)

George (the other one, not the dairyphobe)

Sbharrisatsignix.netcom.com said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

there's nothing like [the] danger [of liquid
nitrogen] to focus attention. And the kids,
of course, love the fog and the fun.

Now, where is that child abuse hot line number?

We don't let the kids pour it, you ninny. Anymore than we let them run
the barbecue grill.

You let the kids barbecue!!!

Where is that child abuse hot line number!!!

As a child, I always did the barbecuing for my family. It was part of
my chores. Your children must be slow?

You have my condolences.

Needed bumper sticker.

Mr-Natural-Health said:

Sbharrisatsignix.netcom.com said:

Quoted message said:

> there's nothing like [the] danger [of liquid
> nitrogen] to focus attention. And the kids,
> of course, love the fog and the fun.

Now, where is that child abuse hot line number?

We don't let the kids pour it, you ninny. Anymore than we let them run
the barbecue grill.

You let the kids barbecue!!!

Where is that child abuse hot line number!!!

As a child, I always did the barbecuing for my family. It was part of
my chores. Your children must be slow?

You have my condolences.

COMMENT:
Ah, you let the 8-year olds hook up the propane tank, do you? Or handle
the lighter fluid and charcoal, and touch her off?

For the record, Liquid nitrogen is far, far safer than flammable
liquids. It's basically very hard to hurt yourself with liquid nitrogen
unless you pour it into something like fabric shoes where it can't
slide off your skin (which is what it otherwise does).

Lighter fluid???? Ewwwwwww! And how quaint! Get a Weber Performer
hybrid gas/charcoal grill. It's a charcoal grill with a built in
propane system to ignite the coals. Piezoelectric too! It has a built
in charcoal bin that holds over 20 pounds of charcoal. I love mine.
Lacking that get a chimney and use those wax/sawdust firestarters. Much
more convenient than using newspaper to fire the chimney (this latter
suggestion from John De Armond's barbeque website). And for food
safety, don't forget to marinate!

-Bruce

Sbharrisatsignix.netcom.com said:

Quoted message said:

As a child, I always did the barbecuing for my family. It was part of
my chores. Your children must be slow?

You have my condolences.

COMMENT:
Ah, you let the 8-year olds ... handle
the lighter fluid and charcoal, and touch her off?

Yep, did it all the time. 🙂

What is your problem, Jack? Were you always this slow?

Sometimes I used wood to get the charcoal get going, too.

Just thought that you might want to know that you are an idiot. 🙂

Brucebo said:

Lighter fluid???? Ewwwwwww! And how quaint! Get a Weber Performer
hybrid gas/charcoal grill. It's a charcoal grill with a built in
propane system to ignite the coals. Piezoelectric too! It has a built
in charcoal bin that holds over 20 pounds of charcoal. I love mine.
Lacking that get a chimney and use those wax/sawdust firestarters. Much
more convenient than using newspaper to fire the chimney (this latter
suggestion from John De Armond's barbeque website). And for food
safety, don't forget to marinate!

-Bruce

COMMENT:

You didn't read my message. You see the mention of the propane tank?
And note the word "or" that follows? I'm well aware of the types of
grills have have used them all. You CAN burn yourself with a propane
grill, it's just harder to do. But no device is foolpoof, because fools
are so ingenious. That goes for children also.

SBH