Thursday, June 29, 2017

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.



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