There once was a pig who was starving. The farmer could not figure out why. But this was a pig smarter than the rest. He knew somehow that if he ate very much he would die, because then he would become fat. He saw that all the other pigs who grew up and became fat were taken away to behind the barn and slaughtered because he heard their terrible screams.
When the farmer, or his helper, put out the slops of the day, this one smart pig would pick through things and only select the freshest scraps to eat and let the rest go to the other pigs, who always rushed in and ate everything.
One day when the farmer seemed quite busy and his helper was not around, the gate was not locked securely it seemed. For the smart pig tested the gate when the farmer was in back of the barn slaughtering the other fellow pigs.
The smart pig pushed hard and the gate swung open and the smart pig escaped to the woods nearby, his little feet propelling him in a great run. Within a couple of years he became a mighty boar who roamed the deep woods eating only the fresh roots he rooted up with his snout, and accompanied by other feral pigs, including the new little ones of his family.
At a certain time of the year men came to hunt the wild boar, but mostly they only cornered the old or grown lazy ones. It was a good life being ones real self, eating the good foods of the earth and enjoying nature in the wild. His body had changed also for the better. It was indeed the good life to feel so good and not fat in the body. And to do the things that seemed natural to you and your wonderful body, so well equipped for life in the wild.
QUESTIONS
What is the point of this story for you?
Do you eat for pleasure of how the food tastes, or do you eat for the pleasure of how your body feels because of the food you eat?
What psychological attitudes about your life seem to rest on what you eat, what you take into your body?
How focused are you on your body as the experience of well being, versus how focused are you on the food you eat and the way you eat it?
It’s not the food you eat that determines the quality of life. It is the effect of what you eat in your body and personality that determines the quality of life.
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