Food is Information. And Poison!
We are living in a time of abundance. Here, in the West, of course. We are also really getting to know how tricky abundance is. We have too much of so many things. Too much information, too much work, too much coffee, too many consumer options, too many plastics in the ocean, too many guns, it’s mindboggling if we try to list it all.
Our bellies are too full, our minds are overactive…
“Dust Thinking”
It is the 3rd and final day of our retreat. We had been in sitting and walking meditation for two days, and a little before this talk, we turned back from facing the wall to face the center of the room, and right then the waning sun was beaming into the room through a gap in the trees outside. A clear beam of light was crossing the whole space, and in it, all the dust particles of the room were clearly visible, doing their dance in the light…