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raw food, killing sentient beingsFrom: Steven
Subject: General
Date/Time 2008-02-19 00:41:38
Remote IP: 68.255.72.170
Message>>Hello, I have tried many many diets,
>>but raw food seems to be the only one
>>that does not leave me tired and constipated.
If that's the case, then listen to your body, and eat raw food.
>>Also, is there some logic in removing life energy from food?
>>It is a fact that cooked seeds will never grow.
>>What constructive benefit could such food have in the human body?
Really cooking only has to do with killing pathogenic organisms.
If you don't eat meat, then this is less important . . .
although you can still get E-coli poisoning from plants, if they were
fertilized with manure improperly. Cooking also slows down spoilage,
which has to do with the same thing. Of course, as you point out,
raw food may be more beneficial to the body. It's a trade-off, and
ultimately comes down to personal preference.
>>Finally, even if there is convincing evidence for cooking food,
>>I want re-assurance that following the healing tao
>>will not require me to eat animals. I really dont
>>approve of animal slaughter.
Of course, anyone that starts following the Healing Tao, we automatically
force them to eat a steak dinner once a week . . . ARE YOU SERIOUS?
How would anyone force you to eat meat?
The fact is, we have people from all food paths here--omnivores,
vegetarians, vegans, raw foodists, etc. What you want to eat is up
to you. In fact, the registrar for the Healing Tao summer retreats
is a raw foodist. Plenty of people that attend are vegetarians, but
some--including myself--are not.
>>On the other hand, it's a fact that plants are sentient as well...
>>so I seem to be caught in a rut. If I want to survive,
>then I have to kill something else. I am not pleased about this.
>>Where is the compassion in this world?
>>Why must I harm other things to survive?
What of all the microbes you kill when you take a shower, or scratch
your arm, or whatever? I think you need to relax a bit. It's like
you are having trouble relating to being on Earth. Everything on
Earth--plants, animals, humans, whatever, all have their own destiny.
Who's to say that the plants one may eat (or animals for that matter),
aren't here for the purpose of supporting your existence, and you
are merely completing their destiny? The chi is not lost, it is
merely transformed when you consume the food. In some ways, you may
help the sentience of the food to reach a higher state of consciousness
by being part of you rather than living on its own. Nothing is
cut and dried, and just worrying and developing a lot of anxiety about
it is not going to help anything.
If you really, really hate the concept of food, then through a lot
of Healing Tao practice, you can always bring yourself to the state
of "bigu", which means that you live off of the chi from the air,
no longer needing food to survive. Although if you want my personal
opinion, that's an extremist position. I'd instead recommend
coming into personal balance with the natural world and not be at
such a bitter war with it.
S
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