Nothing spinning in my head\u00c2\u00a0 loudly enough that I need to get it out by writing it down<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nWell, that’s about to change. There’s a thought-storm a-brewin’ and this brief post will hint at what it is.<\/p>\n
So let me get there by starting here:<\/p>\n
You probably know about the various “caveman” or “paleolithic” diets. They suggest that we should eat like our 100,000 year old ancestors for maximum health and a lean, trim body.<\/p>\n
Okay, let’s ignore for a moment that most of what they ate no longer exists — the fruits and vegetables they would find have long since been selectively bred out of existence, for example.<\/p>\n
And let’s ignore that their lifestyle — which involved a surprisingly small amount of driving, deskwork, and Twitter\/Facebook status updates — is, oh, a bit passe.<\/p>\n
But here’s what gets me. I’ve never heard one of the paleo\/cave proponents recommend a food that was eaten frequently by our more hirsute relatives… one that is a source of a significant percentage of protein in the diets of many modern societies.<\/p>\n
Insects<\/strong>.<\/p>\nYup. Bugs, grubs, spiders, creepy-crawly things. Oh, and let’s not forget lizards who, it seems, had not yet been turned into hyper-expensive boots.<\/p>\n
If you’re going to propose that we get in the Way-Back Machine and knosh at a pre-historic Denny’s, then you can’t cherry-pick your data (and cherries, back then, were sour and sucked). You can’t leave out the pieces of the puzzle that you find unpleasant or, worse, unmarketable.<\/p>\n
So, you paleolithic pansies, get thee to an Asian grocery for some palm grubs (smoothies, anyone?). Hop over to an exotic pet store for a plateful of crickets and grasshoppers. Don’t feed that monitor lizard you have as a pet… pet it gently with marinade as you roast it over an open flame.<\/p>\n
Oh, and walk all the way to and fro on your gathering errands, cause finding this stuff shouldn’t be easy.<\/p>\n
Now, all that said, how does this relate to our normal topic-du-blog?<\/p>\n
I’ve been struck lately by how Western Buddhists have been cherry-picking philosophy and taking the bugs out of the teachings they don’t find palatable (like, oh, the little idea that “enlightenment” or the “end of suffering” — the promise and #1 sales pitch of Buddhism — is attainable through diligent practice of monastic life… and, instead, Buddhism is really promising that, in the moment, you have the ability to be more present and less reactive… Whoopty-friggin’ do).<\/p>\n
But more about that later, once the volume of that thought in my brain gets to 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
First of all, another comment that my lack of blogging results from: Getting a bit tired of rehashing the same themes (there are only so many ways that thinking goes awry in the New Age and “spiritual” world, really) Being busy with things like Invisible Shoes running sandals Nothing spinning in my head\u00c2\u00a0 loudly enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,11,35],"tags":[91,90,88,89],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-prescriptions-for-living","category-sloppy-thinking","tag-bugs","tag-caveman","tag-diet","tag-paleo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}