Cooking lovingly! Cooking meditatively! Cooking for Buddhas! Cooking for the transformation of human consciousness is ‘
Cooking Taoshobuddha way or Buddha Way
!’ It is indeed cooking for Buddhas. A strange,yet still a meaningful title for a cook!
ooking lovingly! Cooking meditatively! Cooking for Buddhas!Cooking Taoshobuddha way or Buddha way or cookingforBuddhas means the same thing. It is indeed a strange yet still ameaningful title for a cook book. It says a lot. And this is the beauty of it. First let me explain something of the title. Taoshobuddha is anenlightened master. Very rarely a master goes into cooking or doessomething like this. Although each master remains particular abouteating food cooked by each and every one yet no effort was ever made inthe past in this direction. When I asked Taoshobuddha about this, verypleasantly in his usual manner he said something that reveals thecompassion of a master. Only an enlightened one can say such a thing.This is what he said:
“Cooking Taoshobuddha means ‘Cooking for Buddha’; ‘Cookinglovingly’; ‘Cooking meditatively’. Only then there can be totaltransformation of human consciousness. Only then we can create a newman who is balanced both inner and outer.
Life is a journey of transcendence. It is a moment to moment journey of awareness.As such man exists at three planes. In ordinary human being theseplanes remain muddled. And because of this there is no clarity and inwardjourney gets impeded.
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In case of an enlightened one the planes remain the same. However these exist in their right perspective. Also these do not overlap one another in anenlightened one.These three planes are:1.The plane of silence the unheard the uncreated one. This is the planewhere the master or the enlightened one dwells. He prefers to remainthere. But from this plane the transformation cannot happen. Veryunlikely you will find aspirants who are at this plane. However when theaspirant is within the energy field of the enlightened one he is touchedby this state of awareness at times. Still this state is not permanent. Thisis the plane where I dwell. I would not like to come out of this state. But then I will be failing in my responsibilities for the birth of a new humanbeing. One who is beyond dualities and conflicts? He is religious beyondthe dimensions of all the religions and narrowness.2.The second is the plane of intellect. Many are there at this plane. Orthink that from this plane they can understand the deeper aspects of inwards journey at least intellectually. Again they are mistaken. At thisplane peoplegive their own meaning to the words and message. Still it is a plane from where one can communicate to all those who are at thisplane to varying degrees. For these people I have made myself availablethrough scores of books, and other materials, audio and video talksinternationally. Also I have weekly meditations in Boston, Sweden,Vancouver, Florida, Miami, and New York. These I conduct from here.In addition there are two published books. And there are 12 E-books andMonthly E magazine ‘MEDITATION TIMES’. Currently I am doing a book ‘TASAWWRE SHEIKH’ as reminiscences of my father of his master.3.And last is the most common plane where you will find vast majority of humanity even thosewho are on the second plane are to certain varyingdegrees remain mixed up with this third plane. This is the plane that relates to food sheath. Food is necessary for the survival of the body. Wequote ‘
Annm b&hm
!’ But do not understand the essence of this.
The people who are at this plane are the ones who have suppressed sex. Alsothey lack the understanding of this biological energy. There is not onlymisunderstanding instead lack of awareness as well. All those who havesuppressed sex get interested in food. India has suppressed sex down the agesfor various reasons and the outcome is so many spicy and pungent dishes.Nowhere else so many dishes have developed as in India.West has been slightly different. Sex is not suppressed. But there is nofulfilment. One can suppress sex that India did, or what the west did still it lacks fulfilment. Suppression and un-fulfilment are two sides of the same coin.This problem has to be addressed. In the past masters have taken notice of this and abstained eatingfood from others. But they have done nothing tooffset this problem. Without this new man cannot take birth out of you.Without this all rituals, worship etc remains meaningless.I have taken to cooking and thus bring my awareness to the vast majority whoare not interested in things at higher rungs. Whether they are interested inmeditation, or discourses they will definitely be interested in food. How toreach these persons was on my mind. This life I have chosen to work at all theplanes.Through my awareness I am fulfilling the missing dimension in the life of those who are either suppressed or unfulfilled as far as the sex is concerned.When I looked into the lives of all those who are interested in foodsomewhere or the other this needs to be fulfilled. Direct involvement methodcannot be used. I have to devise system and methods that can be utilized witheffective results. I have devised certain meditations as well to transformnegativities at personal and cosmic levels. These incorporate breathing at body level, introspection at mental level and compassion at the level of thebeing. These are yet to be given the final shape through the cook book ‘COOKING TAOSHOBUDDHA WAY’.Masters need to do this. Mere rituals, scriptures etc cannot transform them.This is the reason I have gone into cooking.Maybe persons will be benefited tovarying degrees. One thing is certain though:‘In the barren soils of thy inner sanctumOft do I use the manure of compassion,
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