Of course you want the turkey to be done. You'd like the mashed potatoes to keep warm, the stuffing to stay moist and the gravy to taste homemade. You're hoping the pies turn out, the guests turn up and the TV gets turned off. You'll be grateful to have it over with, but can you take a week of hectic cooking and turn it into a mindfulness practice?
The sages did, and still do.
Mindfulness practice is exactly like preparing a holiday dinner. In fact, one of the most profound and practical texts in Zen, " Instructions for the Cook," was written nearly 800 years ago for the monastery kitchen staff.
That ancient teaching inspires these 7 ways to prepare your Thanksgiving meal more mindfully.
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Be mindful by dispelling the myths and outright lies that are told about the history of Thanksgiving.
being 'mindful' of their horrific living conditions and treatment, constant chemical injections to make
them grow faster creating immense suffering, their horrific slaughter process and dna alteration which is making them mutated for profits.
http://www.angrytrainerfitness.com/2010/11/top-10-biggest-holiday-diet-dangers/
I know my food was not raised in a cage, or killed with a knife. I'm Thankful for that knowing I didn't contribute to insanity of 10 Billion violently abused and caged farm animals every year. I'm Thankful that I have progressed to a point where I can appreciate the bond and friendship that develops between me and the animals and I can sustain myself without slaughtering my friends for survival, and that I have the means and can extend myself to helping many of them live happy healthy lives.
Farm Sanctuary's Adopt a Turkey ( I am not affiliated with them at all just enjoy my adopted turkeys so much I wanted to put it out there )
http://www.adoptaturkey.org/
By popular demand, the main dish will not be turkey, but rather our own free-range barred rock roasters with the usual accompaniments, many of them home-grown.
We First Americans have promised not to wear our feathers, headbands and breechcloths to the table if the others will refrain from wearing funny-looking hats, breeches and long stockings.
Our annual turkeyday dinner actually has very little to do with any of the historical thanksgiving dinners, including those that preceded the largely mythologized event in Plymouth. It is merely a convenient time for us to invite a lot of good friends to join us, re-affirm longstanding friendships and occasionally meet some new people. Of course there are always a few who will disappear into the media room to watch some football game and fall asleep by halftime.
When all is said and done, I rather enjoy our version of T-day.
I was the first to post in response to this article and I see it was deleted. I wrote that it would be mindful to not eat a bird and to contemplate the suffering endured to satisfy our tastebuds. I did not call anybody names, I did not swear. I merely expressed my "mindful" insights and because it did not jibe, I guess, with one of the moderators' takes on the subject, they deleted it. HP is progressive? Bah, not any more.
Is this the post you said was deleted? I found it in your comments section:
“Slaughter humanely. There's an oxymoron if I ever heard one. As far as we have evolved, considering how we treat the animals--amd each other and the earth, that is debatable.”
Unless you posted another post on this same thread and topic, your original post was NOT deleted.
FYI.
Best,
~maribelle