An internalized form of fasting practice consists of ceasing to consume external knowledge. This can be observed on two levels:
– The first is that of acquiring new knowledge, particularly from books, or reactivating old knowledge corresponding to wisdom, spiritual practices, etc.
– Secondly, fasting can also reveal its benefits if the practitioner ceases to draw upon the knowledge they have already accumulated.
This refers to the mental form that spiritual practice can take when it dons its conceptual, religious, and cultic garb.
Fasting then becomes a silence that opens us to direct contact with the depths of our nature.
Just as we become aware of the power of hunger when we hear it rumbling within us, we understand the full potential for illusion inherent in knowledge when it is set in motion and seeks to unleash the sultry allure of spirituality.
Through this inner fast, this observation becomes possible.
Through fasting, we finally see the practice in its nakedness.
