God has given you taste you have not created it, it has nothing to do with you. It is so delicate, and it is so beautiful, and it is so wonderful – to kill it is to be ungrateful to God. Remember: the body is your temple the body is a divine gift. I am not for those people who have been teaching you to kill your senses they are against the body. It will not be dull it will be aflame with energy and vitality. Use them to their optimum, then you will really live, and your life will be aflame. ![]() Eat well, taste well taste is divine.Īnd exactly like taste, you have to look at beauty and enjoy it you have to listen to music and enjoy it you have to touch rocks and leaves and human beings – the warmth, the texture – and enjoy all of them. When you are healthy the tongue is sensitive alive, throbbing, pulsating with energy. When you have a fever the tongue becomes dull. But that is not a state of health the tongue becomes dull only in illness. They are against taste they would like you to make your tongue absolutely dull so you don’t taste anything. Your so-called religions have tried to de-sensitize you, to make you dull. To be sensitive is to be intelligent, to be sensitive is to be alive. I am not against taste because I am not against the senses. If you eat slowly, tasting every bit of it, chewing well, you will be completely absorbed into it. If you enjoy your food you will eat less, there will be no need to compensate. Remember, the rule is: if you don’t enjoy your food you will have to eat more to compensate. My insistence is not on dieting but on awareness. If you are perfectly aware while you are eating, and enjoying it, you will never eat too much. The purpose of fasting is as a means, never as an end and that will happen rarely, once in a while. ![]() Then, too, remember always that your fast is in the service of feasting, so that you can eat well again. If sometimes you feel that a fast comes naturally – not as a law, not as a principle, not as a philosophy to be followed, not as a discipline to be imposed, but out of your natural feel for it – good. He would like to relieve himself his stomach is not in a condition to digest any more. ![]() It is not a question of principle, it is not a philosophy – he is ill, his whole being is against eating – rather than eat, he would like to vomit. He is not a Jaina, he is not a believer in fasting he does not feel like eating. Sometimes you may have observed your dog fasting: you put the food down and he will not eat. A fast can be used only when it comes naturally. Tao is to be natural: a feast and not a fast. The moment you start denying something you go against Tao. A man should not deny anything because the denied part will take revenge. I am not against your pleasures – they are not all there is, one should go beyond them, but in themselves they are beautiful. My whole approach is that of celebration. The first thing: I am not a believer in fasting, I believe in feasting. It should first be offered to the gods etc. It is said food quickens the sperm and is a sin to eat for the tongue. Then one day, when you have sought in every direction, in every dimension, and nowhere have you found anything that you wanted, when your frustration is utterly total, in that very moment of frustration all seeking drops.I see the swamis eat so well and so often, and haven't heard you mention anything about this diet. Even a buddha has to seek and go astray and suffer. Seeking is a part, a part of attaining non-seeking. ![]() But to become a non-seeker one has first to become a seeker. "So the first thing to remember is that nobody has ever come home by seeking. You may be smiling but hidden behind are tears. You have hidden your cowardice by painting bravery on top of it. You may be pretending to be brave but deep down you are a coward. "You can pretend, you can deceive the whole world, but how can you deceive yourself? You will always know who you are. You are pretending that you are Alexander, pretending that you are Christ, pretending that you are a buddha, pretending this and that. Greatness will not be a real greatness – deep down you know that you are not great, deep down you know that you have practiced it, deep down you know that it is just on the surface, a mask. Nothing else ever happens in this existence except greatness – because it is out of God. It has been always there, it is your nature. Then you just close your eyes and it is there, the great horse is there. When you become tired and frustrated with your seeking you drop all seeking to be good or to be bad. And they are rushing away from themselves. The bad ones have become criminals, immoral, and the good ones have become moral, saintly – but both are seeking. "The bad ones have gone seeking along the bad lines and the good ones have gone seeking along the good lines.
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