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Sorry, that was supposed to end with, in food. Or eating. I have found this to be incredibly productive in losing weight. I have lost 67 lb. I'm down from 271 to 207.
The hard part has to do with grasping what quality means and what it is measured against. First of all, it's important to realize the quantity is what we think of as a measurement, as opposed to quality. But when we think of the quality of something, it is interesting to measure it against basically nothing whatsoever, or in a certain way, anything else. Now, I'm obviously talking about the quality of food. Not whether it's made in such a way that it is of high quality, but the simple quality of it in it's having its own special character, its own special nature, its own special taste, this special thing about it that is unique to it and that we experience when we eat it.
When we concentrate on this quality we realize that having one bite doesn't mean much different from having 20 bites. It's the one bite, or 24 all of that, measured against the nothing that surrounds it. So imagine eating a section of a tangerine. It has this unique tangerine taste, sweet, sour, and that certain something the tangerines have that nothing else has. The more I concentrate on this sense of the quality of the tangerine, the less I need a lot of the tangerine, and yet strangely, the more I want some of that tangerine.
This has led to my being more interested in food, not less, and yet, not needing to eat very much at all. Once I get that quality, I feel like I've gotten what I can get out of the food. when I eat a section of tangerine, I'm basically amazed at The Wonder of this incredible taste. But having another section doesn't really improve on that qualitative difference between nothing and a tangerine. eating 10 slices or 20 or 30 doesn't matter nearly as much as simply what is in the tangerine that makes it taste like tangerine and what I experienced when I taste it.
You could try to get out of some tricky philosophical language, talking about the I or, and I'm not sure about this term, the ipseity of whatever it is. You might talk about the idea of beholding the taste, in a manner of speaking. But what I can say with some certainty here is that when I focus on the quality of something I don't need as much of it to eat. this is sort of the idea of the amuse bouche, which I think means an amusement for the mouth. These are typically single spoonfuls of a certain item, tiny appetizers that are meant to amuse you, gastronomically as it were or is.
I can just suggest that you spend time mulling over the distinction between quality and quantity and find out if this doesn't work for you as well.I eat so much less, and yet I think about food more, and I put more into making it, and so forth. I need so little of that food to enter the realm of its quality. And when I have that quality, I feel like I've gotten so much out of it. I experienced the same thing with music. Sometimes I really want some Bach. as a musician that means a lot to me, and yet, and you might not believe it, but listening to literally about 10 seconds of Glenn Gould playing Bach can satisfy my need for a Glenn Gould fix as much as listening to an hour. And I hear it and it changes my mind for days. And I only listen to 10 seconds. I mean that's kind of weird, isn't it? And yet I'm really focusing on this unique quality of his playing and I get it right away. how long do I actually have to listen to it? Not very long. The other one that gets me is Rosalyn tureck. She has a thing about her playing which is really something and you can get it in an instant and yet I hear it my eyes roll and I am absolutely astounded by it, but I might listen to 10 seconds, or 20 seconds. The quality of it, it's almost as though you can measure it, not as though you can't measure it. And yet when you take the measure of it you feel that you're being sent Across the Universe. And what sends you there is not listening 2 hours of it. Look, what is there is there or it isn't, and when it's there you don't need to hear much of it to get it.
The same thing with food. When that quality is there, it's there, and having extra bites of it doesn't make any difference. You don't need a lot of it. You need it. But you don't need a lot of it. I don't know, I would just say, think about this. Spend some time mulling it over. You may be very surprised.
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