For yoga practitioners, there are some rules to follow when facing food, sex, and speech
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Sattvic is the best food, but vegetables should not be eaten too much
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It is mentioned in the Cheng Dian of Ayurveda that “eating vegetables leads to disease (shakenavardatevyadhih)” It is also mentioned in yoga books that vegetables are useless for yoga practitioners
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The best food is wheat, snakegourd, half paste yogurt, mung beans, ginger, milk, and sugar
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Good food should prolong one’s life, increase one’s pleasure, strength, health, happiness and love
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It should be digestible, natural, simple and seasonal
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This kind of food is most suitable for practitioners because it is the food that God likes
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On the other hand, sour, salty and irritating food is not good for your health, so you should not eat too much
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If the food we eat is pure, our thoughts will be pure, because our heads will absorb the food we eat
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It is also mentioned in Upanishads: “if the food is pure, our thoughts will be pure; Pure thought, stable memory (aharas) huddhausattvashuddih.Sattvashuddhaudruvasmrtih )。」 Therefore, yoga practitioners should only eat pleasant food instead of stimulating lust, negative thoughts, succulent or fattening food
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In addition, we should also abandon toxic substances and smoking habits
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The food we eat should only account for half of the capacity of the stomach
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The other quarter of the stomach should be filled with water and the other quarter with air
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Only in this way can it help the stomach to move and digest
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We should avoid eating too much or completely fasting, sleeping too much or not sleeping at all, having too much sex, or getting along with negative and vulgar people, because all of these will cause obstacles to yoga practice
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It’s very important that we should control our diet and sleep
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Similarly, it’s not good to talk too much
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If you talk too much, you will waste the energy of your tongue and your words
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If the energy of speech is broken, what we say will be powerless and will not be valued by the society
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However, talking about spirituality can increase the energy of the tongue and benefit the world; Talking about common things can only reduce the energy of the tongue and damage its life span
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Cheng Dian often emphasizes this point, so we’d better follow it as much as possible
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Too much sex can also debilitate the body, the senses and the mind
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If our minds and senses are weak, we can hardly achieve great things; If we are mentally unstable, we will have nothing to do
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Therefore, we should avoid having sex too often..
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