When to eat? What to eat? How to eat? and Should we eat?.
The questions that haunted me for long.
Having born in an environment where eating non-vegetarian was a norm. During the days when i used to eat non-veg food, i dont involve in cutting or even cooking as it squeezes the heart a little.
The concept of jeevakarunya got in. One fine day the neural connections rewired themselves and converted me to become a vegetarian. Then somebody said, plants are also living things. I did not find a choice and hence remained a vegetarian for almost 19 years.
In the mean time, i had been hearing of people who lived only on water, my guru living on one time food, long duration fasting etc
The concept of palio diet gave another perspective. My understanding of palio diet is that; some one observed carnovorous animals (tigers, cheetah etc) that eat once in a day and are fit and active. Herbivorous animals (elephants, cows etc) are generally fat and found eating most of the time.
Recently i came across Nature Cure - http://akarma.life/akarma-health/ in coimbatore. Just by adjusting food habits the common ailments of sugar, BP, diabetes etc are gone. Even chronic head aches and asthma. Have personally interacted with them and have just about altered my diet plan. The plan is more or less - No Oil - No Boil - Hence No Kitchen.
You may check out this video for more details.
During one of our tekmonks sharing session, this topic came up and one of them made a startling remark. "Extending jeevakarunya on these lines, i think we should not eat any form of seeds. The seeds are their children. They grow and keep the species alive".
So, we are just left with some fruits and vegetables to feed upon.
May be some day, some one would make another observation and we might start living on water and air alone.
May be that is why we are asked to enter into deep meditation for years togather.
Looks like anything a human being does, leaves a disturbing footprint for other species. May be the purpose of humanity is to disturb the ecosystem or maybe we are the highest form of intelligence which is supposed to sit and enter into a trance. Not sure why we should have a physical form? May be someday we would realize.
The questions that haunted me for long.
Having born in an environment where eating non-vegetarian was a norm. During the days when i used to eat non-veg food, i dont involve in cutting or even cooking as it squeezes the heart a little.
The concept of jeevakarunya got in. One fine day the neural connections rewired themselves and converted me to become a vegetarian. Then somebody said, plants are also living things. I did not find a choice and hence remained a vegetarian for almost 19 years.
In the mean time, i had been hearing of people who lived only on water, my guru living on one time food, long duration fasting etc
The concept of palio diet gave another perspective. My understanding of palio diet is that; some one observed carnovorous animals (tigers, cheetah etc) that eat once in a day and are fit and active. Herbivorous animals (elephants, cows etc) are generally fat and found eating most of the time.
Recently i came across Nature Cure - http://akarma.life/akarma-health/ in coimbatore. Just by adjusting food habits the common ailments of sugar, BP, diabetes etc are gone. Even chronic head aches and asthma. Have personally interacted with them and have just about altered my diet plan. The plan is more or less - No Oil - No Boil - Hence No Kitchen.
You may check out this video for more details.
During one of our tekmonks sharing session, this topic came up and one of them made a startling remark. "Extending jeevakarunya on these lines, i think we should not eat any form of seeds. The seeds are their children. They grow and keep the species alive".
So, we are just left with some fruits and vegetables to feed upon.
May be some day, some one would make another observation and we might start living on water and air alone.
May be that is why we are asked to enter into deep meditation for years togather.
Looks like anything a human being does, leaves a disturbing footprint for other species. May be the purpose of humanity is to disturb the ecosystem or maybe we are the highest form of intelligence which is supposed to sit and enter into a trance. Not sure why we should have a physical form? May be someday we would realize.
Thanks for sharing these thoughts..
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