Hello, hello, Radio Headspace family.
Welcome to Friday and to this new moment.
So the other night,
I woke up from my sleep wanting to know what practices are used in the Zen tradition for mindful eating.
Random, I know.
But I went online and found a book called Instructions to the Cook,
a Zen master's lessons in living a life that matters.
Since reading it,
something that's been on my mind is this idea of using the so-called ingredients of our lives to create what the book refers to as a supreme meal.
In other words, a life that is lived fully and wholly with no holding back.
And what are the ingredients?
Well, whatever in our lives is present for us in the moment.
Our thoughts, our emotions, feelings, our bodies, relationships, our actions, behaviors,
everything in our lives can be used, and we make the most of what we have.
The metaphor in this book was cooking, which, as a fellow foodie, I could relate to.
See,
cooking is an alchemical transformation that can be likened to the transformative nature of our lives.
There's a process.
It's experiential.
Somehow, the mix of a few items can create the most divine meals or epic chemical reactions.