Quote Originally Posted by mrdevious
do any of you have some opinions/experience/information on fasting? I know a lot of cultures have used fasting during meditation and the such, but I honestly don't (as-of-yet) understand how self-inflicted malnutrition and carbohydrate/protein exhaustion can help the mind. I may actually just bring fruit with me and stick to that, but I'm curious to know more .
similar to taking a drug, fasting causes changes in the physical body. Which causes changes in our perceptions of the sensory... but mind? If there was something (nothing?) to the mind that was not physical then it would remain unchanged by physical changes.
What is it that remains unchanging from moment to moment? Regardless of substance?
If you want, try not eating for the day... Or perhaps not eating for the morning and then enjoying a piece of fruit late in the afternoon before going home for dinner. What if that piece of fruit was all you had?
I think fasting is a good practice to use sparingly. At least, speaking for myself. Can't forget that there actually IS a physical body, even if it's not everything...

And it's not like it's going to hurt you to go one day without a full belly... Millions of people do it all the time.