Fast Options

I am going to start a fast from food and light starting tomorrow. I will also abstain from cigarettes and any other such things. I will sit in the dark of my bathroom and meditate for a month or more(however long it takes) with nothing more than a cup for water.

I'll get back to you in a month or so with the results.

This is dangerous. I do not think it will lead to any sort of enlightenment. Possibly useful quotes:

"It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."

"But again, after five or six years of self-mortification, Siddhartha felt he had failed to achieve true insight and rejected such practices as dangerous and useless.

Resolved to continue his quest, Siddharta made his way to a deer park at Isipatana, near present day Benares. Here he sat beneath a tree meditating on death and rebirth. Discovering that excessive fasts destroy strength, he learned that as he had transcended earthly life, so must he next transcend asceticism."

This post has been edited by Vilhjalmr: Dec 31 2010, 02:20 AM