One meal a day
 

Greetings friends


Just wanted to post to see if any of you practice eating one meal a day?

Namaste,

I don't. I have tried in the past but have low blood pressure and low blood sugar and have passed out several times. I do however, try to stop eating before I am "full" so as not to have an attachment to the pleasure of eating.

In metta,
Raven
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I couldn't handle just one meal a day, I'm not very good at being hungry. I tend to get moody and bad tempered, I actually think it's due to low blood sugar and a high metabolism. If did have one meal it would need to be high in slow release carbohydrates. I wonder what traditionally the meal has in it?
Gassho
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I did it for about a year while I was ordained in Thailand. It's really a great practice to get rid of attachment to food. After a while, my attitude towards eating became, 'I have to do eat again already?' It became a duty, a ritual instead of something we did out of pleasure or even hunger.

Two meals a day... and some times just one... it is a lot more heathier... imporves meditative temper.

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Thanks for the replies. I have been considering taking up this practice. I notice when I have eaten less generally I feel more alert and awake than when I have eaten more.

We say that meditation starts with a pacefull stomach... (stomachfulness??)

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In the Sammaññaphala Sutta the Buddha talkes about contentment with the simplest food and shelter and delighting in solitude...

'You should know, your majesty, that that man of yours — your slave, your workman... always watching for the look on your face... has gone forth from the household life into homelessness... content with the simplest food and shelter, delighting in solitude.' as the first visible fruit of contemplative life...

Later on, in the "Lesser Seccion of Virtue" the Buddha tells:

"He eats only once a day, refraining from the evening meal and from food at the wrong time of day. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/grin.gif

Because of the climate one meal a day,(taken before 12;00 noon) is fine Thailand,in Uk we would have a breakfast and a meal to finish before midday.
Even in Burma there were 2 meals a day,( incidentally meat was always the main part of the meal)

A traditional rural wealthy mexican family has arround 6 meals a day... An early coffee with bread arround 5 am; breakfast arround 6 am; a kind of brunch arround 10 am; the main meal arround 2 pm; an afternoon snak arround 7 pm and supper arround 10 pm.

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