This is next interesting realization of mine. It has been here with me all the time but only now I am ready to see it and acknowledge it. I have been eating food and drinking water almost every day of my life and I have taken it for granted and I have made out of it an automatic task. And only today I have stopped for a moment and I have realized that this food that I am taking is becoming part of my body. This is not just an act of putting the food into my mouth. It is putting into my mouth something that is becoming part of my body and it is becoming one with it.

Before this food or water gets into my mouth, it has to be produced. Usually it is being done by other people and I buy this food in supermarket or sometimes I grow my own food in the garden. But most of the time I buy it in the shop. I buy it with the money that I have earned with effort with my work but it is an automatic act. And what about the gratitude for this food ? Somebody has put en effort to produce it and this includes the earth because without her support we would not be able to live on this planet. And do I ever feel and express my gratitude to the other people who produced it ? Do I express gratitude to mother earth for it because in the end without her it would be no possible to produce this food in the first place ?

If I do it, I do it very, very rarely. And the rest of the time it is an automated act.

To be continued...