Food plays an important role in my thoughts, I enjoy cooking (as long as I have the ingredients and a clean+goodsized kitchen) and I am vegetarian. I care about what I eat, when I am feeling a little less poor I try to buy Organic and/or Fairtrade food, I make sure that I look at the ingredients of premade things before I buy them. I never go to fast food places like McDonalds, Burger King or KFC.
So food does play an important part in my day to day life… which got me thinking about nations with good quality food, and the nation that did come to mind was India. The people of India are (usually) very spiritual, a lot more than most modern westerners… and here lies the reason why the food is of great quality: All of the main religions of India have a focus on types of food and the preparation of food. We can see this in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism and Islam… and even, although its not specifically a main religion in India, Judaism to a degree…. not sure why Christians don’t seem to give off this essence of food quality.
These thoughts combined with the fact that people are “too busy” nowadays means that the increase of fast food intake is making humanity even more materialistic, and it shows… the well known saying “we are what we eat” comes to mind.
What I am proposing is that caring about food is caring about yourself, and this is why it has been included in spiritual practice… because if the body and the mind are clean and clear then the spirit is too.
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