Enlightenweight: Cultivate the Garden Within by Andrew Miles & Xuelan Qiu

Author:Andrew Miles & Xuelan Qiu [Miles, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780989368414
Published: 2015-01-19T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15: Emotional Factors

“Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.”

—Maya Angelou

The Foundation of Humanity Is Food

The associations between love, respect and food are always present. They cannot be erased or ignored. They are too instinctive and central to life.

Food represents the distribution of energy and love. It is natural that social animals eat together with those in their group. If you feed workers, you can manifest your dreams and erect buildings that touch the sky. A well-fed army can defeat a starving army ten times its size. When food is not understood, cities stand empty and great dreams lie broken. Those who understand food have thriving families, friends and communities. Those who don’t understand how important food is may have large and beautiful homes, but after the divorce, they will become as empty as an abandoned city. The relationship between social interaction, emotions and wellbeing cannot be understated. It is the foundation of humanity.

When you stop nurturing people with food, money, and social grooming, you set them outside of your tribe. This causes social isolation. It raises anxiety and makes people store fat. Food is that important to life. It is the way we share life and it drives the intention of all living things. It is the gift of food that will cause an animal to either befriend you or tear you to pieces.

According to Secret History of the Mongols, written around AD1227, Genghis Khan understood the laws of food. He was raised in scarcity. Clans grew and splintered based on food. He knew better than anyone how it could unite or divide. When his own brother was stealing food, Genghis executed him with a well-placed arrow. The lesson on how scarcity of food can divide a family left a lasting impression. One of his laws for uniting the clans of the grassland was based on nourishment. Any Mongol who refused to share their cooking pot with other members of the horde was put to death. This unified them as a tribe and caused them to act with unity and follow a single intention. This intention was so powerful that it changed the course of history. The destruction it caused would also leave behind some powerful lessons.

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