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Devajyoti

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My question was:
Will I be able to eat less.
Bacgroundinfo.
I am ususally a poor person fighting for survival. Food.
Sine 3 weeks I am with foodsharing but its very heavy work and I dont get really anything good out of it.
Its about sharing, cleaning, toing a good thing, but not about getting proper food. Which I was usually taking from a garden most of the time if not grocery.
Well I just ate too much stuff this week which I was not used to eat at all.
Hunger is one thing, an empty stomach another.
Its okay to have an empty stomach and hunger. Hunger may be hurting but an empt stomach is helpfull a lot.
Now when hungry I put so much unhealthy stuff inside of mine. I am usually a vegan, maing exceptions, but this week was just too much. I even ate meat inside of meals, when I did not even realise.
ANd I drink too much of this oatmilk we get for free from saving which I dont like because of tht rasp oil inside.
Pff, not a good oil and much to much if I consume more than one liter of it per day. Anyway. I would prefer to get rid of consumation of any kind of bread and baked stuff again.
I cannot even breath properly anymore. My stomach is lie 20 months pregnant.
My "shitting process" is an only illness and I need to make cleansings of my stomach from the end way with water in order to feel better, but I dont feel normal at all any more. I feel like dying. Maybe thats another reason why I cannot have much empathy with m so called friend and maybe its other way round like stress eating.
I feel exposed and vulnerable like never before and this is just nothing good for me.

I thought about fasting until I get my bus to the retreat in 3 days.
then I will be a walking 6 hours.


So will I be able to eat less. Maybe I can cook some rice tomorrow.
Just eat one apple in the morning, have one coffee.
Nothing else. Not even oat.
and give away all the leftovers.
Argh

found this in another thread:
27.1 talks of relying on the wrong source for your nourishment - i.e. not being self-sufficient when you have the power to provide for yourself.

Copy from the reading


What has worn out?
Is there a less painful way to let this go?
What is underneath the surface?


Oracle​


'Stripping away.
Fruitless to have a direction to go.'



The surfaces are cut and sliced away; the old and unviable is stripped back to expose the living core. This inevitable, natural process often feels like a flaying: the more you have invested of yourself in these old things, the more painful it will be.


It's no good, at such times, to imagine the future and make plans. You need to bring your energy back to the centre and honour the process: this is a time to be transformed, not to act. Moreover, until the old is so utterly stripped from you that you have no choice but to think in new ways, you will only be able to re-create the old patterns.
 

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27.1 - 23 : of course, for a food-related question, we immediately see the answer literally. I don't think fasting is the right solution right now for you. Instead, try to eat three times a day in small amounts ; you're talking about rice and apple, it's perfect for breakfast for example ! Then 27.1- 23 figuratively: "You let go of your magic turtle"... So the question is : what have you left lately ? Line 1 also talks about not comparing yourself to others... Restore your self-confidence, you can help yourself each day with meditation Vipassana. Namasté 🧘‍♀️
 

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Hi Devajyoti,

"Will I be able to eat less?"
27.1 to 23 ~ Fast to reunite the Separateness

From the WB:

27 The Corners of the Mouth
.0 Perseverance brings good fortune.
Pay heed to the providing of nourishment​
And to what a man seeks​
To fill his own mouth with.​
.1 You let your magic tortoise go
And look at me with the corners of your mouth drooping.​
Misfortune.​

23 Splitting Apart

.0 It does not further one
To go anywhere.​

Your magic tortoise (Pure Awareness of What Is) is what you have Presently when your body is empty of attachment to form, and your mind is empty of self-talk:

3GraspingandDwelling.jpg
When you are without your magic tortoise, you have misfortune and sadness, instead.
So, go on a fast for 3 days before your Retreat:

A common Retreat fast for the Body can be ~ no coffee, meat, eggs or alcohol ~ but follow the guidance of your Vipassana teacher?​

Similarly, a common Retreat fast for the Mind can be ~ no self-talk, no self-talk, no self-talk ~ choose silent witness, instead ~ but again follow the instructions of the teacher?​

Doing these things will Nourish you properly for Spiritual fitness.

Here is Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj from his classic, 'I Am That":

"You cannot possibly say that you are what you think yourself to be! Your ideas about yourself change from day to day and from moment to moment. Your self image is the most changeful thing you have. It is utterly vulnerable, at the mercy of a passerby. A bereavement, the loss of a job, an insult, and your image of yourself, which you call your person, changes deeply. To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. And to know what you are not, you must watch yourself carefully, rejecting all that does not necessarily go with the basic fact: "I am." The ideas: I am born at a given place, at a given time, from my parents, and now I am so-and-so, living at, married to, father of, employed by, and so on, are not inherent in the sense "I am." Our usual attitude is of "I am this." Consistently and perseveringly separate the "I am" from "this" or "that." All our habits go against it and the task of fighting them is long and hard sometimes, but clear understanding helps significantly. The more clearly you understand that on the level of the mind you can be described in negative terms only, the more quickly you will come to the end of your search and realize your limitless being."​

Persevere in this and you could emerge from the two week Retreat glowing with Freedom?

Namaste!
 

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hi, just looking inside again, have not before.
Today in the evening my bus wil go...
and still things to do of course

and I am eating a lot.
I have to.

Yesterday I had a lot of work in my garden.

the fasting was not about eating nothing into my stomach.

I dont read meassages of that "friend" who does not behave like one.

I dont blame her or me or anyone.

Whatever.

Yesterday for the day I asked ching and it gave me 28, which follows 27.
The great exceeding.
Today for the day I got the small exceeding, 62.

Interesting, isnt it?
 

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I am ususally a poor person fighting for survival. Food.
Sine 3 weeks I am with foodsharing but its very heavy work and I dont get really anything good out of it.
Its about sharing, cleaning, toing a good thing, but not about getting proper food.

I thought about fasting until I get my bus to the retreat in 3 days.
then I will be a walking 6 hours.
Hi
What does it mean you are with foodsharing? I don't understand.
And what does it mean that you will be a walking 6 hours?

The line to me seems to say it depends on you but the relation to food is nice :)

Are you trying to eat less because of money or in order to heal your body?
Try not to fall into orthorexia, it can become dangerous and suck your life.
 

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Hi
What does it mean you are with foodsharing? I don't understand.
And what does it mean that you will be a walking 6 hours?

The line to me seems to say it depends on you but the relation to food is nice :)

Are you trying to eat less because of money or in order to heal your body?
Try not to fall into orthorexia, it can become dangerous and suck your life.
dont worry,... no problem. I was just overeating.

foodsharing and foodsaving is an organisation - we save food which would go into waste otherway.
So most of the time its not the best quality.
therefore... eating less low quality food would sometimes be a good chance.

tomorrow I will arrive in a polnish town and will walk 6 hours to the vipassanacenter.
or I will tramp and take a ride :)
 

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Oh I see! I had a wonderful Vipassana 10 day course a few years ago. Had 26.6 for it

Is this heaven's highways? Creating success

so I rushed out and it was a m a z i n g. It brought me back to life.
 

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Oh I see! I had a wonderful Vipassana 10 day course a few years ago. Had 26.6 for it

Is this heaven's highways? Creating success

so I rushed out and it was a m a z i n g. It brought me back to life.
happy for you!

I ate healthy there.
I did not walk 6 hours. When I arrived in that one town I took two little buses, walked an hour and then got two hitchhikes....

and I met a teacher I knew and maybe solved a problem by patience.

and I fell in love... and that will be my next question... ( new post )
 

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