Meditative Cooking

This is about the cooking and eating meditatively. Is is also about the spiritual ideas, philosophies, mythologies, and symbologies connected to food and eating. It includes recipes many of which are created by my own inspiration and are unconventional. It will include the tips, and tricks for meditating while cooking and eating.

Eating and Cooking are two of my favorite things to do. I enjoy these things so much because they help me to connect to myself. When I cook I smell the food, and I am attentive to what I want to eat, I listen to what colors my mind wants to see, I hear the sound of the food cooking, and I watch it transitions from one state to another as it is being cooked. Just as we transition from one state to another through life, through death, and through rebirth.

As we cook we see how nature works. We see fire heat water and if we understand this we understand much about how things are balanced. When we add ingredients we notice that too much of an ingredient tastes bad, and what too much is changes from recipe to recipe. This is balance it is the very same balance that everything in the universe abides by. To ponder this balance and then to experience it by cooking and eating is to understand the balance of all things. Indeed eating is a process that shows us the mystery of life and death as we consume the food that was once alive and is now dead but serves to add life to us.

We know that the steak we are eating once came from an animal that had life. We stop and think of our own life and how much we love it. We imagine that maybe that animal felt similarly about its life. We realize that it died to feed us, and one day we will die and our body will feed the earth. Now maybe we can be grateful for what we are eating and understand what was sacrificed to feed us. Now maybe we understand how we and what we are eating are equal, how all things are equal in life and death.

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