The Buddha said that there are some worlds where beings are the same in body but different in mind (mental dispositions, attitudes, inclinations). Other worlds are the same in mind but physically differeent. Yet others are characterized by widely divergent physical forms and divergent minds.
In the Human World beings are different in body -- sometimes unrecognizably different -- but are inclined to suffer from greed, aversion (including fear), and delusion.
That our bodies are different seems obvious. But mentally we share Three Afflictions:
Humans chase and grasp things (which we regard as pleasant).
Humans avoid/fear other things (which we regard as unpleasant).
Humans are deluded, confused, trapped in the morass of ignorance.
The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga), therefore, classified people by Personality or Psychological Types depending on which affliction (or countervailing healthy state) was predominant. There are Greed types, Hate types, and Deluded types on the negative end of the spectrum. Conversely, there are Faith types, Wisdom types, and Speculative types. Nearly everyone is a combination-type.
The world's smallest man, who's from China's autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, sits under the Queen of the Longest Legs, 9/16/08 (AP Photos/Sang Tan).
LONDON -- The shortest man (who can walk) met the woman with the longest legs. His name is Pingping, of China, and he was born with a type of dwarfism. At age 20 he stands precisely 2 feet 5.37 inches. The pair met to publicize the release of "
Guinness World Records 2009," which "celebrates differences," due out 9/17/09. She is Svetlana Pankratova's, 36, a Russian who lives in Spain. She has legs that are more than 4 feet long at nearly 52 inches. Her upper body has nearly typical proportions, giving her a giraffe-like appearance.
Dressed in a bright-blue mini-dress and low-heeled pumps, Pankratova said she liked her legs, though they can complicate things. "It's hard to find clothes, especially pants," she said. At just over 6-foot-4, she isn't the tallest woman on record. (Sandy Allen, of Shelbyville, Indiana, who died recently, held that title at 7 feet, 7 inches, according to Guinness).
The latest edition of the book lists pop star Britney Spears as the most-searched person on the Internet and the television show "Lost" as the most-downloaded show of all time.
The book has been around for half a century with about 3.5 million copies sold each year, according to editor-in-chief Craig Glenday.
It always used to be Japanese Buddhists (like the famous Okinawans) with their island diets and respect for elders. Is the Jewish God showing favoritism? Doesn't sound like him. No, wait, it sounds exactly like him.
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(TEDx Denmark) Stig Åvall Severinsen was the first person to hold his breath for more than 20 minutes under water, a Guinness world record. He believes that controlling the breath [prana, chi, spiritus, "invisible lifeforce energy," "animating principle"] means controlling our lives.
The maverick yogi Wim Hof is teaching the world to breathe -- one ice bath at a time. During what feels like the height of the American popularity of "hot yoga," Iceman Wim Hof is an Ambassador of the Cold.
This is what it's like to not own a smartphone in 2018 (Kathleen Davis) It’s 2018, and I’ve never owned a smartphone. Four years ago, I wrote about having no regrets for being a “dumb phone” user. At the time I was an anomaly: 58% of Americans, according to Pew researchers, owned a smartphone; that figure was around 80% for people in my age demographic. Now, I’m a clear oddity: 77% of U.S. adults are smartphone users, as are around 90% of my peers.
American Gertrude Baines (be-low) is officially the oldest per-son in the world. But British Henry Allingham, born on June 6, 1896, has now been declared the world's oldest man, at 113, following the death of Japanese Buddhist Tomoji Tanabe.
Tanabe, who ate mostly vegetables and believed the key to his longevity was not drinking alcohol, died on Friday aged 113 and had held the record for the oldest living male since January, 2007.
LONDON -- The shortest man (who can walk) met the woman with the longest legs. His name is Pingping, of China, and he was born with a type of dwarfism. At age 20 he stands precisely 2 feet 5.37 inches. The pair met to publicize the release of "Guinness World Records 2009," which "celebrates differences," due out 9/17/09. She is Svetlana Pankratova's, 36, a Russian who lives in Spain. She has legs that are more than 4 feet long at nearly 52 inches. Her upper body has nearly typical proportions, giving her a giraffe-like appearance. 
