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The Process Of Becoming
Food is simply another organism until prepared.
Even as food, it is simply an object until consumed.
Even after consumption, it could be regurgitated before making its way through the stomach.
It’s only once digested and absorbed that food is broken down into its nutritive values and becomes energy, cells, muscle fibers, and all the various components of the body.
This process is much like the process of ideas, religion, Stoicism, or the practice of Self-Mastery. Like food, it remains independent of the self until it is prepared, consumed, and digested.
The nutritive value of any of these practices is only realized through intentional thought, deliberate and consistent practice, and the maturation of knowledge and concepts into behavioral identity.
We should take our time and choose our food wisely. We should prepare it safely and cut it into manageable chunks. We should slowly chew, allowing it to break down before swallowing.
We should not consume more than the stomach can hold, or we will not keep it down.
Once eaten, we should direct what the body does with the food through movement or heavy physical demands. Otherwise, it is not programmed into bone and muscle but becomes fat.
We should give thanks for the body and mind that food creates and allows us to be in the world.
Food and a mental practice are one and the same.
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