As my name would suggest I enjoy Mindfulness and can see the benefits of how mindfully eating can help weight loss. We have discussed in the past how to eat consciously exploring how to fully experience food and not being distracted by a book or TV. Thus enabling you to hear when you body is full and to stop eating.
With mindfulness being such an important part of buddhism I thought it would nice to see what it had to say about it. I came across this gem called:
The Five Contemplations While Eating
- This food is the gift of the whole universe: the earth, the sky, numerous living beings, and much hard, loving work.
- May we eat with mindfulness and gratitude so as to be worthy to receive it.
- May we recognize and transform our unwholesome mental formations, especially our greed, and learn to eat with moderation.
- May we keep our compassion alive by eating in such a way that we reduce the suffering of living beings, preserve our planet, and reverse the process of global warming.
- We accept this food so that we may nurture our sister- hood and brotherhood, strengthen our community, and nourish our ideal of serving all living beings.
I think you will agree with me by fully appreciating the journey our food has taken to our plates enables us to become aware that we can consciously select the best food for our body to become as healthy as possible.
Here is a Buddhist "Grace" which can help with The Five Contemplations before preparing or eating food.
Where does the food come from?
It is shameful to accept it with low virtue.
After discarding all greed,
And considering it as a remedy to support the body,
I accept the food to achieve the Way.
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