Spend a little time every day practicing the "mindfulness" diet with no distractions

There is a Japanese Zen master, the day and day practice, but also no other hobby, but like sweets. In his serious illness, disciples from all over the country came to visit, of course, also do not forget to bring some fruit to mentor, so that he died before the taste of a taste. Finally to the fishing of the moment, the old master as any daoxing advanced practitioners, sitting on the table, the appearance of peace. Then he picked up a cookie and put it in the import, slowly chewing it a little harder. Eat, he slightly opened his lips, as if to say something, so the disciples are all nervously gathered in the past, thinking that Master to do his last show of life, must listen clearly not. The old master finally spoke, he only said two words: "Delicious!" "And then it broke down.

A person walked to the last moment of life, the heart thought unexpectedly still is the taste of the just now dessert, leaving the final words is still the praise of that piece of dessert, there is no farewell, not to give up and fear, he is not the most powerful foodie? Shouldn't the so-called foodie be the way it is? Wholeheartedly treat the immediate food, the heart without distractions, or even put life and death in the outside.

Later, we all said that the Zen master is really high, has reached the realm of enlightenment, the reason is that Buddhist practice is the most fastidious about whether a person is always "mindfulness."

"Mindfulness" refers to being very focused on living in the present, walking attentively to walk, sleeping intently asleep, not clinging to the past occurrence of the joy, nor worry about the future of worry. This state of nature is happy, but also without me, because it completely cut off my past and the future, do not take the things that happened in the past as their own things, nor the future of me as now this my continuation. It is difficult to reach this state in the ordinary, it is more difficult to remain in the moment of death. So a lot of people have decided that the dessert master is really nirvana.

In fact, we eat every day, and ever tried every meal every bite to eat it intently? When you eat breakfast, you read the newspaper, lunch time turns into a work meeting, dinner with a TV sauce, how long have we not tried to treat the immediate food? If we eat intently, will the taste of food become different from usual? We often feel pity for some chizhai and bemoaned for people who have many taboos in their diets. But looking back, we usually swallowed to eat, is this really enjoy life, know how to eat the fun?

It seems that foodies can at least be divided into two categories, most of them are quick-witted, imaginative, eat a piece of meat, will be aftertaste from the past in the way of a restaurant is how smart, or a feast tomorrow. A few of them, like the dessert master, are preoccupied with what they see in their mouths. For such people, perhaps even a mouthful of rice is the taste of the Earth.

There is also a Zen monk Todoko Tokada, known for its culinary excellence, who once met a young man on a train trip generation on the Shinkansen, a young office worker who put his briefcase on his lap and read a magazine while drinking beer while taking a bento to eat.

Zongje Monk noted that the youth "is to read the main magazine, the way to eat lunch." His behavior "is simply to eat" as a functional action, that is, put food into the mouth, mechanically chewing, through the throat, and finally stored in the stomach bag. Zongje Monk area to look at the office worker, found his eyes always stare at the magazine, a little can not feel the existence of Bento. This kind of people's diet life, can be called ' Robot eats '.

Ashamed to say, I am also a food robot, often a person to eat, and eat when it is not open Book magazine, for fear of wasting time to eat.

It's ironic, it's an era of food inflation, almost everyone is a gourmet, but we still feel that eating is a waste of time. Probably have a standard in mind, think daily meals is necessary to earn a living formalities, can be casually sent, any other activities, and food, is a very special thing, must be taken seriously.

American Buddhist Tutor Confield's raisin practice, he teaches students to eat a raisin for 10 minutes, many people feel too full after eating!

It's not possible for us to eat every meal, but at least spend a little time every day practicing the "mindfulness" diet with no distractions. You don't have to think of it as a very religious ritual, you just need to take it as a basic practice to get to know the food.

Spend a little time every day practicing a "mindfulness" diet with no distractions