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Index
Contents
Foreword
Escape from Circularity
When the Meal-Wheel Rolled In
The Birth of Centralized Eating
The Birth of Mindless Eating
The Birth of Overeating
The Birth of Mass Overeating
The Birth of Decorative Eating
The Birth of Unempathic Eating
The Meal-Wheel Runaround
What about the Ditch-Water Drinkers Who Know No Bread?
Conclusion: A Fix-a-Flat for the Meal-Wheel
First Course: Reconnecting with Your Body
Restoring the Flow of Well-Being
Relaxation: A Logical Place to Start
Follow the Survival Priorities
A Sky Full of Food
Air, Then Water
Empty Your Mind to Preempt Emotional Overeating
Relaxation Menu
If You Have Time to Eat, You Have Time to Relax
Conclusion: A Vision of Self-Nourishing Self-Care
Second Course: Reconnecting with Your Mind
A Word about Confusion
Meditation Course
Removing the Quotation Marks
Practice Time
Conclusion: Full Yet?
Third Course: Reconnecting with Your World
Mindfulness Is Awareness of Choice
Enso Your Way into Eating
Pattern-Interruption Strategies
Finding the Flavor of the Moment
Practice Just Noticing
Mindfulness of Fullness
Conclusion: Ready to Ritualize?
Reclaiming the Calorie
Nutritional Calories vs. Experiential Calories
Nutritionally Empty Calories vs. Existentially Empty Calories
Mind-Warming Eating
Conclusion: Meaning Is Caloric
Reinventing the Oryoki Meal
Oryoki Form
Converting the Dining Hall into a Meditation Hall
Solutions Become Problems
Zen Essence, Zen Form
Oryoki Lite
Conclusion: Mind on a Paper Plate
Reinventing the Dessert
Mindful Eating Koan
Every Meal Is a Dessert
Dessert = Pleasure
Mindfulness = Pleasure
Pleasure Is a Choice
Conclusion: A “Diet” of Desserts
Reinventing Fasting
Time-Based Eating Is Mindless Overeating
Every Meal Is a Break-Fast
Fast-Time Is Slow-Time
Health Benefits of Daily Fasts
Trust the Hunger
Conclusion: The New Fast
Reconsidering the Ahimsa Meal
Extremes of Ahimsa, Extremes of Compassion
Zero Harm Is Impossible
Ahimsa Eating Reconsidered
Honey-Eater Worse Than a Butcher?
Compassionate Meat-Eating and Violent Veganism
Ahimsa Eating Restated
Conclusion: Heterotroph’s Dilemma
Reconciling Social Eating and Mindful Eating
Social Eating Is Time-Based, Not Hunger-Based
Social Eating Is a Groupthink Process
Social Eating Is Distracting
Social Eating Is Emotional Eating
From Mindless Social Eating to Mindful Social Eating
Conclusion: From Collective Appetite to Collective Mindfulness
Rethinking Obesity
You Are Not Your Body
You Are a Neural Tribe
Loss of Control, Loss of Self
Conclusion: What’s Eating You?
Reinventing the Iconography of Eating
Mindfulness Is the Missing Ingredient
An Icon of the Past
The Icon of the Present
Conclusion: A Do-It-Yourself Project
Reinventing the Species
The Samsara of Heterotrophy
Two Metabolic Routes, Two Karmic Paths
There Are No Metabolic Saints
Ideas, Anyone?
Mani’s Enlightenment
Transhuman Fermentation
Life Reinvents Itself
Homo photosyntheticus: Beyond Mouth
Existential Indigestion
To Live Is to Depend
Conclusion: Reinventing the Meal Reinvents the Mind
The Sapience of Eating
References
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