Meditation as Food

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Meditating is a sort of eating, a consumption of subtle energies which are

digested by the mind's subtle digestive fire. Meditation is a critical

element of all daily programs because it satisfies the mind's hunger.

Insufficient or improper meditation keeps the mind hungry, and makes it turn

outward through its sense organs to seek satisfaction from sense objects,

including especially physical food. Use of food to satisfy the mind alone

without consideration for the body always leads to disease. Good meditation

nourishes the organism so thoroughly that the body can maintain itself on less

food. Control of desire, which is

mental hunger, is the key to longevity and

immortality. Anything can be a meditation, as long as it is sincere and

heartfelt.

 

-- Robert Svoboda