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Culture & Politics » talk.politics.china » A Meditator's Diet
| A Meditator's Diet [message #226985] |
Mo, 24 Juli 2006 02:22 |
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Man is the only species whose diet is not predictable. The diet of all
other animals is certain. Their basic physical needs and their nature
decides what they should eat and what they should not; how much they should
eat, how much they should not; when they should eat and when they should
stop. But man is absolutely unpredictable, he is absolutely uncertain.
Neither his nature tells him what he should eat, nor his awareness tells him
how much he should eat, nor his understanding decides when he should stop
eating.
As none of these qualities of man are predictable the life of man has
gone in some very uncertain directions. But if there is even a little
understanding - if man starts living with even a little intelligence, with
even a little thoughtfulness, opening his eyes even a little - then it is
not at all difficult to change to a right diet. It is very easy; there can
be nothing more easy. To understand right diet we can divide it into two
parts.
The first thing: what should a man eat and what should he not eat?
Man's body is made of chemical elements. The whole process of the body
is very chemical. If alcohol is put into a man, then his body will be
affected by the chemical - it will become intoxicated, unconscious.
Howsoever healthy, howsoever peaceful the man may be, the chemistry of the
intoxication will affect his body. Howsoever saintly a man may be, if he is
given poison then he will die.
Any food which takes man into any kind of unconsciousness, any kind of
excitement, any kind of extremity, any kind of disturbance, is harmful. And
the deepest, ultimate harm is when these things start reaching the navel.
Perhaps you are not aware that in naturopathy all over the world, mud
packs, vegetarian food, light food, water-soaked cloth strips and tub baths
are used to heal the body. But no naturopath has yet understood the point
that the effects of water-soaked cloth strips, mud packs, or tub baths, on
the body are not so much because of their special qualities but because of
how they affect the navel center. And the navel center then affects the rest
of the body. All these things - the mud, the water, the tub bath - affect
the dormant energy in the navel center and when this energy arises, health
starts arising in the person's life.
But naturopathy is still not aware of this. Naturopathy thinks that
perhaps these beneficial effects are coming from the mud packs or the tub
baths or the wet strips on the stomach! They do have benefits, but the real
benefits are coming from the awakening of energy in the dormant centers of
the navel.
If the navel center is mistreated, if a wrong diet, wrong food is
used, then slowly, slowly the navel center becomes dormant and its energy
becomes weaker. Slowly, slowly that center starts falling asleep. Finally it
almost goes to sleep. Then we don't even notice it as any center.
Then we notice only two centers: one is the brain where thoughts are
constantly moving, and the other is a little bit of the heart where emotions
are moving. Deeper than this we have no contact with anything. So, the
lighter the food is, the less it creates heaviness on the body, the more
valuable and significant it will be for the beginning of your inner journey.
For a right diet the first thing to remember is that it should not
create excitement, it should not be intoxicating, it should not be heavy.
After eating rightly you should not feel heaviness and drowsiness. But
perhaps all of us feel heaviness and drowsiness after our meals - then we
should know that we are eating wrongly.
Some people get sick because they do not get enough food and some
people get sick because they get too much food. Some people die of hunger
and some people die of overeating. And the number of people dying of
overeating has always been more than the people dying of hunger. Very few
people die of hunger. Even if a man wants to remain hungry there is no
possibility of him dying for at least three months. Any person can live
without food for three months. But if a man overeats for three months then
there is no possibility of his survival.
Our wrong attitudes towards food are becoming dangerous for us. They
are proving to be very costly. They have taken us to a point where we are
somehow just alive. Our food does not seem to create health in us, it seems
to create sickness. It is a surprising situation when food starts making us
sick. It is as if the sun rising in the morning creates darkness. This would
be an equally surprising and strange thing to happen. But all the physicians
in the world are of the opinion that most of the diseases of man are because
of his wrong diet.
So the first thing is that every person should be very aware and
conscious about his eating. And I am saying this especially for the
meditator. It is necessary for a meditator to remain aware what he eats, how
much he eats, and what its effects are on his body. If a man experiments for
a few months with awareness, he will certainly find out which is the right
food for him, which food gives him tranquility, peace and health. There are
no real difficulties but because we do not pay any attention to food, we are
never able to discover the right food."
The Inner Journey
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