This popped up in my inbox. Since almost all attribution on Facebook is garbage, let’s call it anonymous.
“What is it about food? Everyone on this course is into some diet—the Zen macrobiotic diet, the mucusless diet, the Bragg diet, the raw food diet—how important is food really?”
A wise man made me a warm cup of tea and gave me an advice-gem:
Bronze Food: What You Eat Physically
“Food matters, of course,” he said, “you are what you eat. But if you eat some bad food, it’s gone from your system in two or three days.”
Silver Food: What You Consume Through Your Senses
“But there’s a deeper kind of food, not so easy to get out of your system—what you take in through your senses: what you hear, see, read, and watch—books, news, movies, all of it. This feeds your mind and heart, shapes your thoughts and emotions, and becomes your conditioning and subconscious. If it’s negative, it can lurk unseen and take years to release.”
Gold Food: The Company You Keep
“But the most important kind of food? Your friends: the company you keep has the biggest influence on your life. And the funny thing is, if you hang around with low people, you won’t bring them up, but they’ll bring you down.
“In India, we have a word: Satsang. Satsang means gathering in the company of the wise. Seeking the company of the enlightened. And if none are around, keeping the company of fellow seekers, uplifting each other, protecting, and keeping each other on the path together.” Do you have a Gold Food strategy?
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And then there's Hole Foods, notably bagels and donuts, and, depending on your geometric rigor, (three-hole) pretzels, bucatini pasta, Cheerios, Toad in Hole, etc.
The Pharasees were of this mind, as are the Brahmins. Avoid the lowly and the unclean. The way of Jesus was to hang out with lepers, prostitutes and crooks. In a way, these were the least in need of cleansing their pretention, and responded to love or just attention - granting being. The least among us are the most grateful for simply being acknowledged as human. Suffer fools gladly. If he were among us today, he'd more likely be tending bar than running a church.
He would surely be a member if not the leader of the Democratic socialists of America. Or possibly Zambia. I suspect he would agree with my late mother: sell all the gold and give the money to the poor.