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Kindle edition : ASIN: B0DPZL1P95
Paperpack edition : ISBN: 979-8303246942
131 pages
Date of Publishing : December 2024
DESCRIPTION
‘YOGA FOOD’ is a handmade extract from the Samadhi handbook on the subject of our daily meals. As our body is made out of the food we eat, we literally load ourselves into our shopping cart. Our food also clearly affects our awareness and emotions. Since we all have to eat, cooking is at the core of the artistic way of life. Having frequently lived with renunciates, I can testify that most of them are really good cooks. Even though their dishes may be quite simple, they are prepared with full devotion and attention to detail. How their food affected my smile was equally surprising. We are free to turn to a more yogic diet, producing enduring harmony in the bodymind. For most people, it is totally advisable. Modern society has such a poor and one-sided approach to food, ruled by taste buds and convenience. Many yoga practitioners may thus experience that a fundamental change of diet allows them to remain way more happy, healthy and wise. Managing our biochemistry will always be a matter of achieving some kind of dynamic balance. It is thus unwise to become particularly religious or demanding about food. As the Self, we do not need a thing. And as the Self, we naturally love and nourish every body, including our own, with the best possible foods.
This booklet is part of a series of small books extracted from “Samadhi – The Deep Meditation Handbook”, a two-volume work with over 600 pages on reaching the deepest states of meditation. Samadhi is the highest of yogic practices, a trance state where body consciousness is entirely lost and a gradual full merging with the Self is gained. It requires daily sustained meditation practice, supported by some major changes to our lifestyle, attitudes and desires. It is nevertheless everyone’s birthright, even when living as a householder yogi.
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The entirety of the yogic tradition is revealed as originating from the Self, bridging the illusion of a gap between nonduality and other practices.
The practitioners of yoga postures, breath, mantra, or meditation should not be confused about whether all of that is helpful on the spiritual path, or just some distraction produced by the ego.
