Brother Richard

What is it like to consider each of the senses in turn with regard to the food?

Imagine yourself now placing a piece of this food on your tongue.

What associations or stories go with this particular food for you?

Can you remember when you first ate it?

Can you remember who first introduced you to this food?

It doesn't matter if you can't.

What matters is you are trying to draw your awareness to the question and to the possible answer.

Do you know how this food is produced?

What goes into the making of this food?

What labor?

What intention?

What natural resources?

Do you know where it has come from?

If it is a complicated foodstuff, do you know what its ingredients are?

And as you said, with this mental picture of the food resting on your tongue, check in with your body to see, is your body happy to receive this food?

Does your body not care in the least one way or the other?

Or does your body have a reaction towards it that is unfavorable?

You are not looking for mental ideas about the food, but simple physical reaction of the body to the food.

What is it like to slow down your consideration of food in this meditative way?

What is it like to really enter the experience of this food?