The way I eat may seem spartan to some, but I take real pleasure in what I eat because I've developed the capacity to enjoy the simplest foods. Eating is a deep practice, a truly sacred act. It connects the physical world with the unknown or the spiritual as some call it. I choose not to discuss religious or ideological eating, but if we are going to use ideas and theories to support our choices we must be consistent if we wish to not look foolish. I may not know everything about my body, of this time or universe, but I do know from experience that mindful eating and proper nutrition heals and gives life to this body. The quality of our body and thinking share a personal relationship to our food.
As we shed old, stressful beliefs and repressed emotional tendencies, we become sensitive to the interconnectedness with the world and others. Naturally during this process our diet will change. As our diet changes, other areas of our life also being to expand. The food we eat and our choice to consume are constantly interacting with our state of consciousness. Any improvement we make in our diet represents a very real form of spiritual progress.
Your body is built of an infinite number of molecular planets which are inhabited by an infinite number of beings no less conscious than yourself. Be good to yourself- Viktoras H. Kulvinskas
There are those who seem very happy in their position and does as they please. They may say things like 'I will eat whatever I want because life is short" or " I'm living life to its fullest" or " When God wants to take me he will". These are hollow, empty words. They are also, in essence, contradictory to the acceptance of life that we call faith. Many people think with their head, instead of their body in total. As the body aches and feels pain, the mind continues to produce the actions that further the pain; this is almost masochistic in nature. The mind does not want the responsibility of connecting our choices to our current painful state. The mind does not want responsibility , the mind wants to be free and do as it wishes. But it is so fragile because the second you challenge that mindset, it falls apart and emotion overrides logic.
When emotions are dominate, the mind is in control and the senses are dead. We lose the sense that we are connected to others and our environment. We should learn to become sensitive to subtly. Learn to enjoy the entire process of eating; the hunger beforehand, the careful preparation, chewing, breathing, smelling, tasting, swallowing and feeling light and energetic after you eat. The irony with those who believe they enjoy food is most people will fear missing a meal, yet they are not fully aware of the meals they do eat. And if we are not aware in life, we will not be aware in death.
We must be more than a slave to our tendencies and dogmatic in our choices. When the state of our thinking and the state of our body are out of sync there is a mis-communication happening. You may trick your mind into believing you enjoy life, but it is a nervous distraction to numb the fear of death. Just as the happiness projected is more so less misery than unreasonable happiness. Clinging to food, beliefs, choices that bring no change is like never leaving home. It is choosing to operate within a small box of predictable behaviors. It is fear of change, and the fears of change are the branches growing from the fear of death. Death is not sad, what is sad is that some never choose to actually live. Living isn't being physically present throughout the events of your life; it is an act of awareness and presence that allows one to contribute and connect with others and their surroundings. To truly be human we must refine every human function; sleeping, eating, breathing, thinking, walking and so on.
Eat as you please, but do not blame the seasons and time for your degeneration. Do not cop out of responsibility by exclaiming unseen forces may do as they wish and that your choices are a series of predetermined events you have no control over. This is directly asserting the omnipotent powers of divinity into the arena of our awareness, saying what you see and think is ultimate truth. Yet your disregard for life through ignoring the suffering of the body is wasting a gift from that which you believe created you. I pay little attention to people who do not understand the understandable such as food and health, yet proclaim to understand the unseen and mystical forces we are unable to comprehend.
Many people view the spiritual separate from the physical and do not accept the world they see. They console themselves that something better will come and this ultimately doesn't matter. They suffer life rather than live it. And the suffering is a result of distortion. They have mistaken their view of life and death for what it actually is. They now little to nothing of the worlds that exist within them. Disillusioned they proudly choose to stay on a sinking ship because they never took they never wanted to learn to swim.
The most spiritual thing one can do is nourish their life through proper sustenance. It means doing more for your being than your car, more so than your house or belongings so you can honor and treasure the gift of life by consciously providing for it. So many would injure another person to protect their money and belongings, but little realize the devastation they do to their own person through ignore-ant consumption. Consumption that poisons the body, kills the cells and is in essence, anti-life. To see the life in your food, in the mystery that is you and to preserve, respect and give to your body daily is to resonate and be natural with the deepest truth there is.. Love.
For me, living life to its fullest does not mean clinging to old habits, and poor results form those choices. It means braving the unknown, becoming more of myself by giving and expanding. It means becoming human by learning to develop my senses through a quieting of the mind. I have a faith that things are as they should be, that through the development of my mind and body I can become more awakened to the blessings of this life and live in accordance with what is natural. After all, what is natural is created by and a part of the ultimate, and there is no deeper connection than the natural connection to our source.
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As we shed old, stressful beliefs and repressed emotional tendencies, we become sensitive to the interconnectedness with the world and others. Naturally during this process our diet will change. As our diet changes, other areas of our life also being to expand. The food we eat and our choice to consume are constantly interacting with our state of consciousness. Any improvement we make in our diet represents a very real form of spiritual progress.
Your body is built of an infinite number of molecular planets which are inhabited by an infinite number of beings no less conscious than yourself. Be good to yourself- Viktoras H. Kulvinskas
There are those who seem very happy in their position and does as they please. They may say things like 'I will eat whatever I want because life is short" or " I'm living life to its fullest" or " When God wants to take me he will". These are hollow, empty words. They are also, in essence, contradictory to the acceptance of life that we call faith. Many people think with their head, instead of their body in total. As the body aches and feels pain, the mind continues to produce the actions that further the pain; this is almost masochistic in nature. The mind does not want the responsibility of connecting our choices to our current painful state. The mind does not want responsibility , the mind wants to be free and do as it wishes. But it is so fragile because the second you challenge that mindset, it falls apart and emotion overrides logic.
When emotions are dominate, the mind is in control and the senses are dead. We lose the sense that we are connected to others and our environment. We should learn to become sensitive to subtly. Learn to enjoy the entire process of eating; the hunger beforehand, the careful preparation, chewing, breathing, smelling, tasting, swallowing and feeling light and energetic after you eat. The irony with those who believe they enjoy food is most people will fear missing a meal, yet they are not fully aware of the meals they do eat. And if we are not aware in life, we will not be aware in death.
We must be more than a slave to our tendencies and dogmatic in our choices. When the state of our thinking and the state of our body are out of sync there is a mis-communication happening. You may trick your mind into believing you enjoy life, but it is a nervous distraction to numb the fear of death. Just as the happiness projected is more so less misery than unreasonable happiness. Clinging to food, beliefs, choices that bring no change is like never leaving home. It is choosing to operate within a small box of predictable behaviors. It is fear of change, and the fears of change are the branches growing from the fear of death. Death is not sad, what is sad is that some never choose to actually live. Living isn't being physically present throughout the events of your life; it is an act of awareness and presence that allows one to contribute and connect with others and their surroundings. To truly be human we must refine every human function; sleeping, eating, breathing, thinking, walking and so on.
Eat as you please, but do not blame the seasons and time for your degeneration. Do not cop out of responsibility by exclaiming unseen forces may do as they wish and that your choices are a series of predetermined events you have no control over. This is directly asserting the omnipotent powers of divinity into the arena of our awareness, saying what you see and think is ultimate truth. Yet your disregard for life through ignoring the suffering of the body is wasting a gift from that which you believe created you. I pay little attention to people who do not understand the understandable such as food and health, yet proclaim to understand the unseen and mystical forces we are unable to comprehend.
Many people view the spiritual separate from the physical and do not accept the world they see. They console themselves that something better will come and this ultimately doesn't matter. They suffer life rather than live it. And the suffering is a result of distortion. They have mistaken their view of life and death for what it actually is. They now little to nothing of the worlds that exist within them. Disillusioned they proudly choose to stay on a sinking ship because they never took they never wanted to learn to swim.
The most spiritual thing one can do is nourish their life through proper sustenance. It means doing more for your being than your car, more so than your house or belongings so you can honor and treasure the gift of life by consciously providing for it. So many would injure another person to protect their money and belongings, but little realize the devastation they do to their own person through ignore-ant consumption. Consumption that poisons the body, kills the cells and is in essence, anti-life. To see the life in your food, in the mystery that is you and to preserve, respect and give to your body daily is to resonate and be natural with the deepest truth there is.. Love.
For me, living life to its fullest does not mean clinging to old habits, and poor results form those choices. It means braving the unknown, becoming more of myself by giving and expanding. It means becoming human by learning to develop my senses through a quieting of the mind. I have a faith that things are as they should be, that through the development of my mind and body I can become more awakened to the blessings of this life and live in accordance with what is natural. After all, what is natural is created by and a part of the ultimate, and there is no deeper connection than the natural connection to our source.
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