#109: How to Use Ordinary Things in Life to Develop Inwardly - More Insights on Podcasts 107 & 108
Use your gifts and develop what you now have. TWO: (7:54) The power of conscious eating. THREE: (10:08) Linking your inherent faculties. FOUR: (11:22) A speech coach teaches a priceless lesson in self-observation. FIVE: (13:18) Ralph W. Emerson's insight into knowing from yourself, instead of quoting. SIX: (15:58) Awareness of a person's present, transient low level state without judging them for it. SEVEN: (18:55) The false "life" of labeling. EIGHT: (20:15) Audio comment from Peter in Germany and posting the SuperWisdom Dictionary. For your copy, click here.
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I would like to share about "mindful eating". I learned about this in Ram Dass's book, Journey of Awakening, and comments therein by Joseph Goldstein, a Buddhist meditation master. Buddha said something to the effect, when we are eating, we know are eating. The same with walking and sitting.
For myself, every since reading that, I've tried to consciously be mindful of these things, and particularly eating.
LOL, I want to share how extremely difficult it is to be present while eating even for a second or two, no matter how delicious the food, no matter that I mostly eat alone, that I try not to be doing something else, iow, no distractions. It makes me very very aware of how the mind, my mind, is constantly moving about. My advice is to not be too discouraged in this practice. As you've said, you can be aware when you turn a switch off or on.
I enjoy and find valuable your podcasts. Thank you, for them.
gary
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