💐How to Walk, How to eat💐(By Pujya Guruji)

In a one month course with Sayaji U Ba Khin in Burma, I experienced a very deep stage of bhanga, in which my entire body seemed to have dissolved into a mass of vibrations constantly arising and passing away.

Even if by chance I happened to look at someone, I saw only the outline of that person and within it a kind of blinking or oscillation.
🌹One day during this course my teacher said to me, "Come, Goenka, I shall teach you how to walk."
Now What was this? I was not a baby crawling on all fours; I was a man of mature years!
Sayaji explained, "walk as you do normally, neither quickly nor slowly. As you walk be aware of each movement of your body, and also be aware of what is happening within you."
I had been practising that in ten day couses, but it was different now. I tried it and found that while walking I could experience the flow of vibrations, the subtle reality within.
At a superficial level I was aware of my walking, and at a deeper level I was aware of the unceasing process of change within myself-- just a mass of atoms moving about, rather than a solid body.
💐"Now come, "said Sayaji, I shall teach you how to eat."
By this time I had understood that, though I was not an infant to be spoon-fed, there was something I needed to learn.
We went to the dining room and a tray of food was placed before me, each item neatly arranged in a separate dish.
Make small peaces of all the food, and put it in a bowl, said Sayaji.
Now mix it all together- solid or liquid, sweet or sour, combine it all. This is the way that monks are supposed to eat I did as he said and mixed all the food together in a bowl.
Now remain in a deep bhanga, said Sayaji. Keep your eyes closed and continue. Take a morsel of food with your fingers, and feel sensations. I did this, and as I touched the food I felt strong vibrations in my fingertips.
"Move your hands to your mouth feeling sensations."
I did so, feeling strong vibrations. "Place the food in your mouth and feel sensations." I did so, feeling vibrations on my lips, my tongue and gums.
"Chew the food and swallow it feeling sensations." I did so, feeling vibrations throughout my mouth and throat.
The taste of the food became immaterial. Instead I experienced it only as vibrations entering the vibrations of my body.
🌸Having finished the meal in this special Vipassana way, I was asked to take rest. I went and lay down on my bed. For quite some time I kept feeling distinct movement and vibration in the stomach and intestines.
After that course all my food preferences disappeared. I had been very fond of some of the more spicy Indian preparations Now I eat whatever is placed before me, but if there is a choice my hand goes automatically to the simpler dish.
I had indeed learned how to eat: not to satisfy cravings but to provide the nourishment this body needs to carry on its task.
Thanks to Sayagyi, Thanks to Dhamma.