John Logan

[Guest guest]

dear john, it is a honor and a pleasure to share

your healthy, delightful and youthful company.

 

thank you.

 

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yosy

 

 

 

, "John Logan"

<johnrloganis wrote:

>

> Dear Harsha,

> Thank you for your response. I hope it was helpful.

>

> About my own eating habits.

> I am in recovery from cancer in my throat and now do not swallow due

> to surgery and radiation. After 6 years of survival from this I

still

> "eat" through a feeding tube directly into my stomach. The result is

> that my food is "blended" in a blender and liquified. I therefore

eat

> both cooked and raw foods. I am not deprived at all as I can eat

> anything anyone else can eat. (I don't eat much cheese, like on a

> pizza as it is a lot of trouble to clean the blender afterwards.)

>

> Since I cannot actually taste the food I eat I don't have an urge to

> eat food that is not good or nutritious for me. I am not vegan or

> vegetarian as I am a "mixed metabolizer" and require at least a

small

> amount of animal protein, usually eggs, yoghurts, cottage cheese,

fish

> and chicken. Such meat as I do eat is sort of Chinese style, that is

> small amounts in proportion to the rest of my diet, which is largle

> raw or lightly steamed vegetables, fruits, grains and nuts. I am

> fortunate in that one of our vendors makes a wonderful nutrious

(and I

> am told) tasty granola. Due to a prior heart condition, which has

now

> been completely healed, I eat a lot of cooked oatmeal for breakfast

> everyday.

>

> The diet I am on has resulted in my being healthier than I have ever

> been before. I see doctors regularly and they all tell me I am most

> healthy for a 73 year old man and am probably the equivalent of

> someone in their 40s with a very healthy heart and all other organs

> being quite healthy and normal.

>

> I do "sun gazing" intermittantly which supports my health and also

my

> meditation practice in my own version of Surya Namaskar. My regular

> meditation practice is a blend of Zazen and Pratyahara, with an

> attitude derived from Papaji's "teachings" about it all. I belong to

> no sect, follow no dogmas, and after much study and practice have

> decided that most people are trying soooo hard to be religious (a

real

> problem) or spiritual that they get tangled up in Nama-Rupa in the

> guise of spiritual pursuit over explanations of their spiritual

views.

>

> Buddhism and a personal practice in Advaita Vedanta carried me

through

> my recovery from cancer. I have found that most Buddhists are

working

> so hard at being Buddhist that they are just working at it a lot.

And

> so many people have Lucknow Disease in Vedanta....well enough said

> about that. Ramana Maharshi got it right I think when he advised

> seekers to seek "Who Am I?" and Papaji's point about that is that

the

> answer is only found in the instant when one is silent, like the

> moment between one breath and the next.

>

> Actually what I have learned from Harsha is to take quite seriously

> that "All is Brahman" in a spirit of gentle acceptance. Truthfully

by

> any name there is no place where Brahman is not. Accepting that one

> begins to see and hear, feel and know deeply. In this "Deep

> experiencing" beneath the surface of our experience we begin to

truly

> know what is real - and now we can see the surface as the

> manifestation of That, and we enter the Lila.

>

> Alas we forget and are caught in the separation, and finally we

learn

> to love even the forgetting. This is very important.

>

> Today is a beautiful day in which to have some fun,

> John Logan