Hunger is the foundational predicament of separation: that one feels
empty and yearns to be full. Eating is separation's central and defining
act, taken and re-taken to fill up the perpetual void within... The
separated self lives apart from life, and thus feels lonely and sad.
Although it has denied the source of life within its own form, still
it can recognize the source of life in other forms! So it ceaselessly
ingests and metabolizes other things that hold life, in a campaign – undeclared
and futile – to re-connect with life's source... Thus a creature
entrenched in separation remains linked to other life primarily by
consuming it.
The allowance of pure consciousness as the essence of individual life
dissolves separation and ends the life of the separate self. When the
true self is allowed, the void that was created in denial of pure consciousness
wells up with it: life's very source and essence. Then absence yields
to presence, yearning gives way to fulfilment, and hunger dissolves
in a sublime satiety...
Those who reclaim pure consciousness as their essential nature will
recover the ultimate source of energy within themselves, and restore
their access to an unlimited and inexhaustible manna. Then the entire
structure of sustenance is inverted: from feeding on other forms of
life outside the separate self, to feeding on the source of life within
the self reclaimed as One.
