The Way To Keep Our Body And Mind
In Good Condition

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai at a Group Meditation, New Jersey, U.S.A.,
June 24, 1992 (Originally in English)

Even though we might be very hungry, but it doesn't mean we sit and eat all day. Doesn't matter how hungry you are, you eat some amount only. You have to do other things, and even digest and eliminate it in order to take new food. So the energy we get from food or the spiritual blessing we get from meditation, we have to let it flow out and renew it everyday, everyday, otherwise we won't grow.

If a child drinks two bottles of milk, say two litres even, and then he stops there, so that's it, keeps it. If he exercises, if he plays, the milk will get digested, and all the energy will be gone. Then that's a waste of the two litres. It's not correct. He has to play because he gets the energy from milk. But then he has to drink again milk and then he can play. Then by exercising, by drinking, by playing, he grows up.

The same with spiritual issues. We have to let it flow out. And also with food. Because we eat, we have to digest it, and we also use some of it for our muscle energy. That's how we keep our body and mind in good condition.