So maybe that's a better alternative than the genetically modified method. Nevertheless, we don't mean to criticize them. They have tried; they have been excited over some possibility of ending world hunger, or getting more profit. Maybe in the beginning they meant well, and later on the business people manipulated it, monopolized it, and made it become something else. From there, they took a step further and injected animal stuff, just to experiment and make more profits. So it ends up that the process has become devoid of love. And that's why people protest against it. Because when they eat it, they don't feel good. They don't feel love; they don't feel contented.

With a lot of the food I eat, I don't feel good. And with some food I just eat one serving; I don't want to eat another one and another one. Most of the food that I eat nowadays is without any taste at all; I keep wondering why. Just now and again, very rarely, do I eat a very tasty meal, and I say, "This is how food should taste." Actually, it looks the same. But most food I cannot eat at all. It looks so good; it's prepared with everything, but lately, in the last few years, I haven't been truly enjoying food. Only now and again, rarely; I don't know why. It's not because I am not hungry! Sometimes I don't eat anything all day long, and the first meal I eat still tastes like garbage, like nothing; it tastes unattractive, not appetizing at all. I just pick here and there, and then that's it. It's almost like I'm eating nothing, even though it looks like a lot. And even if I eat a lot, I don't feel satisfied. I just feel full and bloated and lousy.

D1: This isn't scientific or anything, but I know someone who works in a restaurant, and they commented recently that they don't know why, but for the last few years or so everyone has been asking for aspirins. Everyone's been having headaches all the time, the people she works with. That could be.

M: That's because sometimes the affect of love-devoid food is not physical; it's not very obvious. You might think you have a headache or you might think you have dizziness, or you feel like vomiting, but it might be from somewhere. They might think it's from pollution, or they might say, "I am overworked, and I don't sleep enough," or from many things we do. Because the headaches people often have, they don't think about.

D2 Some of our brothers and sisters who have switched to organic feel a lot better.

M: I believe you.

D2: They even meditate better. I can feel the difference if I eat very pure food; I can sit still more easily.

M: Yes.

D2 Sometimes I feel agitated when I eat food that is not very good for me.

M: It's true. That I can confirm with you. A lot of times, when I go on an airplane, I cannot eat anything. Even though sometimes I want to try, I cannot eat; I don't feel like eating. It's so empty. The food looks like food, but it's not. So I just sleep or meditate through the flight, or just don't eat anything.

Or sometimes you go into a restaurant and the food looks so good, and everything is so impressive: the waiter is so polite, first class, but still you don't feel like you have eaten anything. You don't feel like eating a lot, and even if you eat a lot, you don't feel it's worth the effort to chew it. (Master laughs.)

It's the same in our kitchen. If some people in the kitchen love their job, do it devotedly and with love, to offer things to people, the food tastes better. So sometimes, when the same person cooks but he or she is in a different mood, I also feel differently. Even though I am hungry, I can't eat the food. And sometimes I am not hungry at all, but the food is very good, and then I begin to feel like I have a better appetite and I eat more.

But it is rare that I can have a nice meal nowadays. No matter how good it looks and how well it's prepared, seldom can I truly say I have enjoyed a meal. Once every month, maybe; it depends on my luck. It has nothing to do with my hunger. Sometimes, I am very hungry, but it still doesn't taste good.

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