Monday, October 19, 2009

Keeping it Light...at Night.


Canis, Hominid, and Equus...who doesnt like grass?

First off...read THIS.

Courtney Pool of Radical Radiance put this on her site
a little while back, and I also heard Philip of LovingRaw
telling me about this when we were speaking in Oklahoma.

Read it yet?

Ok...Im trusting you did.

I did a good deal of experimentation with eating habits
a few years back, and the one thing that REALLY improved
my mental clarity and overall sense of energy and well-being
was eating VERY little at night. The less, the better...it seemed.

Ive drifted from that habit, but have decided to give it a go again.
Two meals a day. Nothing 6 hours before bed. Just water.
We'll see where this goes, but I know that it works and I simply
have to get into the habit again.

Ill make a late lunch my big meal of the day,
then ride out the rest of the evening with spring water.
I dont really care to lose any weight, so Ill keep my
eyes on that, but I'm hoping with the continuous exercise
and nutritionally-dense meals I should be alright.

Buddhist monks have been doing this for millennium.

This part below is from THIS website.

"I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was wandering on a tour of Kasi with a large community of monks. There he addressed the monks: "I abstain from the night-time meal.1 As I am abstaining from the night-time meal, I sense next-to-no illness, next-to-no affliction, lightness, strength, & a comfortable abiding. Come now. You too abstain from the night-time meal. As you are abstaining from the night-time meal, you, too, will sense next-to-no illness, next-to-no affliction, lightness, strength, & a comfortable abiding."

"As you say, lord," the monks responded.

Then, as he was wandering by stages in Kasi, the Blessed One eventually arrived at a Kasi town called Kitagiri. And there he stayed in the Kasi town, Kitagiri.

Now at that time the monks led by Assaji & Punabbasu2 were residing in Kitagiri. Then a large number of monks went to them and, on arrival, said to them, "The Blessed One and the community of monks abstain from the night-time meal. As they are abstaining from the night-time meal, they sense next-to-no illness, next-to-no affliction, lightness, strength, & a comfortable abiding. Come now, friends. You, too, abstain from the night-time meal. As you are abstaining from the night-time meal, you, too, will sense next-to-no illness, next-to-no affliction, lightness, strength, & a comfortable abiding."

When this was said, the monks led by Assaji & Punabbasu said to those monks, "Friends, we eat in the evening, in the morning, & in the wrong time during the day. As we are eating in the evening, in the morning, & in the wrong time during the day, we sense next-to-no illness, next-to-no affliction, lightness, strength, & a comfortable abiding. Why should we, abandoning what is immediately visible, chase after something subject to time? We will eat in the evening, in the morning, & in the wrong time during the day."

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What raw food guru lived to 113?

2 cups of coffee a day? Wow. Bless his soul!
(and his adrenals!)
But who the heck am I to say what he is doing is wrong?

Never EVER stop being a student.
As soon as you do, your progress is arrested.

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