Mindful Eating Quotes

“ritual del oryoki.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, COMER ATENTOS

“Según las enseñanzas Zen, cada vez que comemos ingerimos la energía vital de incontables seres. La comida en nuestro plato es producto del sol, la tierra, la lluvia, los insectos que polinizaron las plantas y de muchas personas, como labradores, camioneros y tenderos.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, COMER ATENTOS

“¿Por qué, en medio de esa epidemia de adultos acarreando y constantemente mamando de botellas de agua decoradas con distintos logotipos empresariales, no se ha preguntado nadie cómo ha sido posible que nuestras madres y padres, y nuestros abuelos, y toda la raza humana a lo largo de decenas de miles de años, se hayan salvado de la aniquilación masiva por deshidratación porque no se habían inventado todavía botellas de agua de plástico policarbonatado llenas de “agua mineral”? Nuestras mentes modernas creen en lo que nos cuenta la “ciencia” putativa y otras historias de viejas en las revistas, erosionando la sabiduría de nuestros cuerpos.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, COMER ATENTOS

“Cuando miramos de verdad, todo lo que vemos se torna hermoso: las grietas en la acera, una planta muerta, las arrugadas manos de una anciana. Los navajos advierten a su pueblo: «Caminad por la belleza». Cuando nuestra mirada está atenta, todo es hermosura y todo el mundo camina por la belleza.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, COMER ATENTOS

“way agave syrup went from a miracle sweetener to a dangerous substance.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food

“it is all too easy for us in this postindustrial era to take eating so for granted that we engage in it with huge unawareness, and also freight it (all puns intended) with complicated psychological and emotional issues that obscure and sometimes seriously distort a simple, basic, and miraculous aspect of our lives.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food

“A few years ago a corrective report announced that people had misinterpreted the first report. Humans needed a total of sixty-four ounces of liquid a day, but they did not have to drink that amount from a glass. It actually all could come from food. And coffee and tea counted. Studies showed that these caffeinated beverages didn’t deplete the body’s liquids after all. Why, in the midst of this epidemic of grown-ups toting and constantly nursing from water bottles decorated with various company logos, has no one asked how our mothers and fathers and our grandparents, and the entire human race for tens of thousands of years before, escaped mass annihilation by dehydration because high-impact polycarbonate plastic bottles filled with “spring water” hadn’t been invented yet? Our modern minds believed what putative “science” and old wives’ tales in magazines told us and overrode the wisdom of our bodies. WHEN”
― Jan Chozen Bays, Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food--includes C D