The Significance of Fasting

The general condition of the human mind is a matrix of appetites with an address.

The human mind is driven by appetite just as any other animal. Appetites include social behaviors as well as those appetites generally recognized. The simple act of occasional fasting will have benefits in all aspects of restoring ones natural energy to the Awareness by awakening the consciousness to appetite's relentless sway, and by encouraging an awareness that consciousness is an insufficient tool to plumb the depths of self-hood: consciousness spends most of its time in various attempts to satisfy one appetite or another. Only Awareness is adequate, and fasting is a useful prod to Awareness when practiced as a tool of personal discovery.

The general condition of the human mind is a matrix of appetites with an address.


Meditation begins as a form of fasting and results in the birth of a new kind of creature.

The Lay of the Land

A thousand years before the advent of Zen Buddhism in China the Taoist were speaking eloquently of the signature difference between "human mind" and "Tao Mind". The terms they used to describe the differences between Tao Mind and human mind are every bit as expressive and articulate as those we would use today. If clearly explaining the facts of the matter were enough to enlighten the ordinary human being we would find ourselves in a very different world.

We live in a world populated for the most part by the cave fish people. It is not their fault that they are blind, and no one would choose to be blind; but the fact remains that they are a plague upon the earth.



Billions of little sorcerer's apprentices are busy setting brooms to carry water. Much will be swept away.