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If we load our consciousness with toxins and violence we should not be surprised by what occupies the driving seat. If we fill our consciousness with nutriments that foster the energy of mindfulness, we can look forward to enjoying life with a different energy. The Buddha talked about four kinds of nutriments - edible food, sense impression food, food of desire and consciousness food. I begin with the Buddha’s Son’s Flesh Sutra and end with the story of a Thousand Sword Thrusts. The bottom line between these stories is awareness about the consequences of our consumption, so that we do not create internal violence to our systems - or to the systems we interconnect with. |