September 19, 2023
Everything seems to be circulating all the time: everything is recycled and brought back. You look at yourself in the mirror. What is this? Recycled banana, potatoes and sandwiches. All that will go down the drain, little by little, day after day; one day a lot more - death.
But even this is not lost. You know the saying, “Dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return.” It is literally true. This physical body sitting here in front of you is nothing but what grew out of earth. It consumes the food, but what consumes it is still more interesting. Fifty-four years ago, I was a baby about eighteen inches long, with a tiny little mouth and a tiny little tongue. Now they have become a big mouth, big tongue and big teeth. How did I get them in the first place? Potatoes, bananas, milk, yogurt and curd.
Can you see the shocking truth? This tongue is nothing but sandwiches eaten two or three years ago, and these sandwiches eaten then are now looking for more sandwiches to eat. I ate some food and made this body, which is nothing but the end product of food, now it in turn craves more food. This process keeps going until one day the body becomes food to fertilize the earth.