The Bible and Taste – Feeding of the 5,000
The implications of Jesus’ miraculous feeding of the 5000 hungry people with loaves and fishes go beyond the fact that he performed a miracle. This story of Bible explains how expanding awareness of taste can transform the act of eating from merely satisfying hunger into a profound experience of happiness and blessings. It also emphasizes fostering peace and love through the interaction of body and mind.
The Feeding of the 5,000 Jesus performed many miracles, including creating bread and fish to feed 5,000 people. They must have eaten with joy and gratitude. Even deep faith practitioners cannot escape natural bodily desires. Diligent faith practitioners hold varying opinions on taste’s role. Food can serve either as hunger satisfaction means or happiness experience medium. When devout individuals pray intensely, they expect emotional movement. This fulfillment sense continues beyond prayer. Post-prayer eating extends prayer-derived fullness to meal. Religious life’s purpose seeks both body and mind blessings. While blessings should maintain happiness state, momentary taste recognition-created happiness often separates from these blessings, thus taste perception receives lower priority. Life overflows with events. For some, even minor worries become major events. People seek blessings to overcome such worries. Blessing-brought happiness and taste-brought happiness share fundamental similarity, though feeling intensity varies with experienced happiness amount. However, continuing to experience and expand these feelings unifies blessing happiness and taste happiness. Elevating eating-generated happiness to blessing level achieves through taste awareness expansion.
Body moves responding to mind, but mind also responds to body’s state. Bodily pain creates attachment and negative thoughts. Eating relaxes muscles and gladdens mind. Regular body-mind interaction observation enables understanding their cooperative function. Using this function can transform negative moods into positive ones. Mind inherently maintains tension through worries and concerns. Though tension levels vary, most live in tension state. This tension manifests in facial expression and affects internal organs. Faith depth parallels Word’s full understanding and perception depth. This ability depends on five-sense reaction-accumulated emotion amount. Emotion represents positive feeling, and when this feeling fills inner being, understanding capacity grows, allowing deeper Word reception. Proper five-sense engagement enables active, emotional cellular response. Religious denominations sometimes engage in debates, often due to scripture interpretation differences. However, as senses refine and feelings develop, deeper happiness and love experiences reduce conflict potential. When internal happiness abounds, love grows and disagreement grounds diminish significantly.
Jo, GiHyoung. Taste Evaluation Theory Revised Edition: Enter gastronomy through the perception of taste (p. 309). ISBN: 978-89-961547-6-1(15380). Kindle Edition.
