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Some\u00a0eat to live, some live to eat, but you can\u00a0eat towards enlightenment!<\/span><\/p>\n Disclaimer<\/span>: <\/strong>The diet described here has not yet been scientifically endorsed. If you have a medical condition, you might\u00a0wish to seek your doctor’s advice before trying!<\/span> I ate lunch today at 3pm. Or was it tunch (tea plus lunch) or an early dinner? It doesn’t really matter what you call it. I call my eating style the ‘Zen Diet’. It is based upon two celebrated teachings by Master Baizang – ‘When hungry, eat. (When tired, sleep.)’ and ‘One day without work, one day without food.’<\/span> How does\u00a0this work? Instead of looking at an external clock as to when to eat, we look at our internal clock. The moment you are hungry is precisely the time to eat. No regular meals are skipped as\u00a0there are not regulated ones! Finally! A dieting system that doesn’t require you to skip any meal!<\/p>\n But how does this help weight loss? What if you’re hungry ‘all the time’? Here is where mindfulness comes in. ‘When hungry, eat.’ We need to be aware of whether we are truly hungry. The reverse of the saying is equally valid – ‘When not\u00a0hungry, don’t eat’ and ‘When no longer hungry, stop eating.’\u00a0With mindfulness, we would know when to start eating, and when to stop! The Zen Diet is not just for those who wish to slim down, but for everyone who wishes to live a simpler but more naturalistic life, where there are no enforced or contrived meals or mealtimes, thus freeing up more time, while saving more food and energy.\u00a0With mindfulness as the key to discern need from greed, the Zen Diet can definitely be part of spiritual practice too.<\/p>\n If we eat according to the Middle Path, we would eat only the ideal foods in the right amount – neither too much to cause sensual indulgence nor too little to cause self-mortification. It is wise to eat only when hungry because depending on our energy input and output, we are not always hungry at fixed times.\u00a0As such, why eat too early or too late? Next, how can we practise the ‘No work, no food’ teaching? We should work ethically and earnestly to\u00a0deserve our food, and\u00a0harness the energy from\u00a0our\u00a0food\u00a0for our ultimate work –\u00a0of\u00a0bettering our\u00a0spiritual practice, to advance towards enlightenment for the sake of one\u00a0and\u00a0all. With such a clear\u00a0purpose in life,\u00a0the why,\u00a0when, what and how of\u00a0eating would all fall into place!<\/p>\n Our work is\u00a0for supporting\u00a0the\u00a0spiritual life. Related Articles: Some\u00a0eat to live, some live to eat, but you can\u00a0eat towards enlightenment! Disclaimer: The diet described here has not yet…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,74],"tags":[23,89,45,156,18],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","category-veganism","tag-middle-way","tag-mindfulness","tag-stonepeace","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","tag-zen","wpcat-1-id","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOur\u00a0true work is furthering the spiritual life.<\/span> – Stonepeace<\/em><\/p>\n
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\nWhy ‘No Work, No Food’?
\nhttp:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/zeph\/message\/751<\/a><\/span>
\nThe Five Contemplations\u00a0of\u00a0Food
\nhttp:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/zeph\/message\/374<\/a><\/span>
\nA Kinder Zen Diet: Shojin Ryori
\nhttps:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/02\/gastronomy-shojin-ryori<\/a>
\nThe Zen Meal that Took Some Time
\nhttp:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/zeph\/message\/707<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"