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Sixteen chapatis

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Tao - The Three Treasures

Volume 2 / Chapter 4

June 24, 1975 Chuang Tzu Auditorium

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excerpt Tao: The Three Treasures Vol.2 - Ch.4
excerpt Tao: The Three Treasures Vol.2 - Ch.4

The sixth question:

The only questions I have remaining are ones part of me would like to suppress. For example: I have been told that you leave your body for several hours each day and that when you return you are very hungry and that you eat sixteen chapatis. Is this true?

Yes, it is true. Whenever one leaves the body one feels very, very hungry on coming back, and after entering the body again food functions as a paperweight and helps the inner space to settle in the body again easily.

Some day you will feel it, some day it will happen suddenly in your meditations, that you are standing outside the body and watching your own body lying there. Don’t be afraid and don’t be afraid about how you will now enter it. With just the idea of entering, you will find yourself in it. No effort is needed, just the very idea that you would like to enter, and you will, the very desire will lead you in. But then you will feel a very unnatural hunger, as if you have not eaten for many days. The body has lost much physical energy while you were out of it.

There is a point beyond which you cannot be out of it, otherwise the body will be dead. To a certain limit you can be out of it, but in that time, in that interval, the body is losing energy continuously and very fast because you are not in it to hold the energy. The body is almost dead. When you enter it you will feel as if you have not eaten for many days.

So that’s true– but about the exact number of chapatis you will have to ask Vivek. Sixteen or not– that I cannot be the right authority about.

Tao - The Three Treasures

Volume 2 / Chapter 4

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