Diet for Spiritual Development

By: Ricardo Dacosta
aka: Raghavendra Giri

Last night was the last screening of "What the bleep - Down the Rabbit Hole." As with last weekend, we had a nice group of people. Some of us went to see Dr. Masaru Emoto last Tuesday and that was pretty amazing too. If you have not heard of him or seeing his work, please visit his website at www.hado.net. After watching the bleep like 15 times and seeing Dr. Emoto's work, I have no doubt that the medicine of the future will be based on vibrational energy.

It amazes me that we as humans have been able to do and conquer so much in our external world with the evolution of technology, but yet out of the 400 billions of bits of information per second that our brain process, we are only aware of 2000!

More and more studies are revealing to us the power that our thoughts and intentions have on us and others and that our observation has a direct impact in our world, the problem is that the average person looses their attention span every 6-10 seconds per minute!

What if I tell you that the type of foods that you eat plays a major role in your attention span? and that by eating and not eating certain foods you could increase or decrease your ability to concentrate, meditate and remain focus on those things that are really important to you. Would you believe me? I hope not. ???

I don't want you to believe in anything that I say, why? because otherwise it will become knowledge to you and you will become a knowledgeble person. There is a different between knowledge and truth. Knowledge comes from the books and magazines that you read, from what you watch on TV and from the things that your parents, teachers and religious leaders teaches you, but none of these things are your truth, they might be their truth, but not yours. Only when you have experience something, it becomes truth to you. I can try to teach you how to feel in love, but only by being inlove you are going to know, so don't believe in what I say, but do practice and experience what I say, your experience will become your truth.

All great spiritual traditions included some form of dietary discipline. In the Orient, the cooking in Buddhist and Taoist monasteries was called "cooking for spiritual development." These traditions were based on the understanding that food influences our spiritual development. By selecting the proper food, we develop our spiritual quality.

Do you think it is easy to meditate if we eat hamburgers, or if our mind is very angry or upset, or if we are always stressed out? Or if we are eating sugar or drinking Coke all the time, so that our mind is often hyperactive and scattered, can we really stabilize and center our energy? These conditions make it very difficult to enter into deep, tranquil, and peaceful meditation. In order to allow spiritual energy to smoothly channel through us, and to use that energy, we need to eat foods that are neither too expansive, like sugar, coffee, even spicy foods like onions, scallions, leeks and other products like alcohol and drugs or too contractive like animal protein, hard cheeses and salt. A daily diet based on 60% whole grains, 25% vegetables, 5% beans and 10% green vegetables, like kale, collards, broccoli would be ideal.

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