How to Cultivate Awareness and Mindfulness

If we become very mindful of the arising and passing away of the taste, it's a very deep and penetrating meditation. By cultivating this kind of mindfulness of process, not only do we become aware of how desire for food arises and watch that desire mindfully without identifying with it, but we can really penetrate into the very basic nature of the entire mind-body process. It might be a nice exercise to eat one meal a day in silence and very mindfully, very attentive to the entire process involved. And in this way, we expand the state of mindfulness to cover the entire experience of our activities,. again to live in a very meditative state.