Healthy Food and a Proper Diet

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Healthy Food and a Proper Diet

My question is should we believe in that that like the qualities of vegetarianism, non-alcoholism, celibacy, practice them, so that we make our body fit, so that that you will be more effective.

See, this is what I’ve been saying right through, why even eating is a moral value. Food is about the body. We must eat what is suitable for this body, but right now you’re talking about making food into your habit. I want to tell you there is no such thing as good habit and bad habit. Habit means you are functioning unconsciously. If you are functioning unconsciously, that’s a bad thing because the whole thing about being human is we are capable of doing things consciously. That is the beauty of being human, that we can do everything consciously. What an animal does unconsciously we can do the same thing consciously. We can eat unconsciously, or we can eat consciously. We can breathe unconsciously, or we can breathe consciously. Everything that we can do we can do it consciously. The moment we do something consciously, suddenly that human being looks very refined and wonderful. Just because somebody walks and speaks consciously, doesn’t he become a beautiful human being? Yes or no? That’s all.

Why is it that we are trying to develop habits, as if that’s a good thing? Habit means fixed realities where you don’t have to think. You get up in the morning, and it will happen to you. No, don’t try to automize your life. That is not efficiency. That is the efficiency of the machine. This one is supposed to function intelligently and consciously. Nobody is expecting it to function it like a machine. About food and stuff, food must be suitable for the body that we eat for. It is for the body. This is the building material for this body, the food that you’re eating. What is the appropriate food? Unfortunately, it’s all messed up right now. Traditionally, we ate very sensible in this country, but this thousand years of innovations have brought other kinds of food cultures. Today the national diet is pizza or pasta. What is it, which is one? I don’t know. Both are competing.

We are losing our sense about food. It’s definitely time to look at what is the most suitable thing. If I go into that food, it’s a very long process. You must experiment with food, not just by the tongue but by the body. You eat something today and see. Just learn to observe how agile and how active your body feels after eating this food. If it feels like it wants to go the grave, that’s not good food. If it feels like it wants to be alive after eating this, except coffee because that’s a stimulant. If you eat food, and your body feels very agile and alive, that means it’s good food. Body is liking it. If you eat something, it feels dull, that means it’s not liking it. It’s having difficulty with it. That’s why it feels dull. Just on this basis, this is a very simplistic way of putting it.