Whatever defilements desire, such as craving for food or drinks, we will have to give in. We have to go on an offense by setting limits and a timetable regarding how much to eat or to drink.
For example, if we limit our food intake to once a day, whatever we wish to eat, we will have to eat during that time. Whatever we wish to drink, we will only drink at that time. Beyond that time we will only drink water.
This is how it has to be managed.
Watching television is off limits. Sell the TV set. Remove anything that is connected with entertainment.
Donate all entertainment gadgets.
That is what we call being aggressive and going on the offensive. If we sit and wait, defilements will entice us to watch this and that, eat this and that.
When this kind of craving occurs, we might not be able to win the fight. Without the props of the defilements, when the craving occurs but we do not have anything to chew or to watch, we will not have a problem.
Ajahn Suchart
Thai forest dharma- food for the heart.
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