All is Food
Understanding the interconnection of all life.
The Upanishads teach that all is food - everything nourishes and is nourished. This ecological wisdom reveals the interconnected nature of existence.
From food are born all creatures. By food they live, into food they return.
This teaching reveals the unity of the material world.
Taittiriya Upanishad
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- What the Upanishads say about letting go
All beings are born from food, live by food and return to it. It is difficult to feel like an owner of anything inside that sentence.
- What the Upanishads say about grief
From food all creatures are born, by food they live, into food they return. The body is not exempted from the cycle it fed on — Taittiriya puts your dead in the same sentence as everything else that nourishes and is nourished.