Meditation Doesn’t End on the Cushion – It Continues at the Table

Through meditation practice we get to know our mind. We learn to be with it, to trust it. We stop all emotional exaggeration and attachment to all intellectualization and constant commenting and judging and simple rest in our awareness and leave the perceptions of our senses in themselves without the need to ignore or reject them.

We leave the thinking in the thinking, the seeing in the seeing, the hearing in the hearing and do not get attached or distracted from them. We leave our sense perceptions be and rest in the mere awareness of them.

We are centered in our awareness, grounded in our counciousness that is able to perceive. We rest in the spaciousness of our awareness without ever loosing the groundedness in our body.

We combine the realm of consciousness with the realm of physical form. We are in communion with our body and our mind. It is like a transcendence of being in between, the spacious aspect and being completely in or part of the world surrounding us. In and out at the same time.

With food it is similar as with mediation. If we eat we connect with our senses. If the food is good we enjoy it and broaden our perception of the sensation we have eating the food, the taste, the smell, the texture, maybe even the atmosphere around us that merges with our perception of the moment.

Like in mediation when we use the breath to come into the moment, being present in the here and now, we can also use food to connect with our presence, too. The food can be satisfying and might make us feel comfortable in our body. Gone are the tensions of the day, the tension of hunger and we might reach a state of completion, of satisfaction where all the drive falls off, where all the tension falls off and we can be just here in the moment. We find ourselves in the moment not drawn or driven but satisfied and complete. Food can come with just this experience. It can bring us home into the present moment and connect us with our body, with our senses without getting lost in them.

With food it is similar as with mediation. If we eat we connect with our senses. If the food is good we enjoy it

and broaden our perception of the sensation we have eating the food, the taste, the smell,, the texture, maybe even the atmosphere around us that merges with our perception of the moment. Like in mediation when we use the breath to come into the moment, being present in the here and now, we can also use food to connect us with our presence, too. The food can be satisfying and might make us feel comfortable in our body. Gone are the tensions of the day, the tension of hunger and we might reach a state of completion, of satisfaction where all the drive falls off, where all the tension falls off and we can be just here in the moment. It is a sort of a small death like sex is sometimes called, too. We are driven and through the climax and release we suddenly find ourselves in the moment not drawn or driven but satisfied and complete. Food can come with just this experience. It can bring us home into the present moment and connect us with our body, with our senses without getting lost in them.