
Ep. 104 - Mindfulness and Food
Ram Dass Here And Now
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How to Analyze With a Silent Mind to Experience All the Different Mental Physical Processes Involved in Eating
The way to stay grounded in all these different techniques and reflections on the experiential level rather than the thought or conceptual level is precisely to develop a very strong mindfulness of all the processes involved in eating. A lot is revealed about our own minds and bodies when we learn to eat with awareness, to eat mindfully. We become very mindful of that whole process of desire and our subsequent action upon it. As we are observing the processes involved there can begin to be a very deep and penetrating insight into the fact that it is all impersonal phenomena happening. There is no self for I or me or mine in the food. All is empty impersonal process going on. Eating meditatively is a
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