The so-called "no food in the afternoon" is a precept set by the Buddha for becoming a monk. In the legal department, the correct saying is "out of season". In other words, you can't eat outside the prescribed time. This time is from sunrise to around three o'clock in the afternoon until dawn the next day. During this time, no food is allowed. Except those with special physiological needs (such as patients). Noon doesn't mean twelve noon, but the sun rises to the middle of the day. What is not allowed to eat and what is not allowed to drink has many detailed divisions, so I won't say much here. Buddhism believes that morning is the eclipse of heaven, and the eclipse of heaven; Noon is the Buddha's food time, that is, the Buddha's food time in the third world; Sunset is the time for animals to eat; The faint night is when ghosts and gods eat. The Buddha said in Sharifutsu Wen Jing: "Brahmins don't eat in time and don't eat evil." Therefore, disciples of Buddhist monks must eat at the right time. However, in the late Ming Dynasty, it went from bad to worse. Master lianchi also said in his Essays on Bamboo Windows: "The more you meditate, the faster you eat at night, the more competitive you are, and the more extravagant you are. It is better than that lunch, and it has become a habit for a long time! " Weight loss principle Breakfast: (Eat)-Decreased insulin secretion-Hunger produces lunch: (Eat)-Decreased insulin secretion-Hunger fasting period: (Don't eat)-Enter fat burning period, healthy formula: Eat like an emperor in the morning, like a general at noon and like a beggar at night. As the old saying goes, "soup is not as good as medicine as food" is the truth! Six reasons worth recommending 1, simple-don't be picky about food, don't care about calories. 2, convenience-in the face of eating out, although you can't be picky about the type, you can choose not to eat. 3, flexibility-in principle, you can't eat after 2 pm, but if you eat lunch late, the time can be adjusted. 4, obvious-face, chin, abdomen, waist thick, slimming effect can be seen. 5, health-good spirit, not easy to fatigue, light body and mind. 6. Good physical fitness-as long as you persist for half a year to 1 year, you can completely improve to "eat fat physique". Both Chinese medicine and Buddhism advocate not eating in the afternoon. According to the melody of Chinese medicine the twelve meridians, "Qi and blood enter the lungs in yin, the large intestine meridian is in the stomach, the spleen is in the afternoon, and the heart is not in the small intestine, so it belongs to the kidney position of the bladder, the pericardium is in the triple energizer, and the gallbladder is ugly." . During the reign of Tatsumi, qi and blood flowed into the stomach and spleen. These two substances are digested and absorbed by the main body at about 7- 1 1 in the morning. Therefore, according to the theory of TCM health preservation, you should eat well and be full in these two hours. This is the best and most effective way to digest food. At night, qi and blood flow into pericardium, triple energizer and hepatobiliary channels. At this time, we should give the gastrointestinal tract enough rest. This is the authentic way to nourish the stomach. Eat well in the morning, at noon and moderately at night. Nowadays, many people eat a lot after night, which leads to the gastrointestinal system always being overloaded and unable to rest well. So it shows all kinds of sub-health, such as loss of appetite, fatigue, drowsiness and so on. It's all caused by overeating According to Chinese medicine theory, many people's stomach diseases are spleen diseases. After a meal, I often have indigestion, nest in my upper abdomen, feel lethargic, and want to sleep after a meal. This is called food sleepiness. In fact, asplenia is caused by overeating or eating irregularly. Spleen in TCM is not the so-called spleen in modern medicine. Spleen governs transportation, expressive, angry blood and ascending to heaven. Stomach governs reception and stomach governs descending. The combination of spleen and stomach is the source of acquired health. It is the energy source of human body and the engine. The transport of spleen means that the spleen has the ability to digest Shui Gu, making it subtle and transported to all parts of the human body. According to modern scientific explanation, the function of spleen is actually the function of small intestine in modern medicine. The small intestine in the stomach absorbs and transforms food, and also includes the function of the liver to synthesize energy (this part of Chinese medicine is called liver governing diarrhea, and it is known that liver disease must cure spleen). So not eating after noon can give the spleen a good rest and keep fit. Of course, I don't really mean not to eat at noon, but to eat less at dinner and let the small intestine have a good rest at night. It is not easy to fall asleep after eating. The so-called spleen deficiency in traditional Chinese medicine means that it is easy to get sleepy when eating, and every time you get wet, you get sleepy. The small intestine itself secretes polypeptide hormones, many of which are similar to those in the brain. The influence of gastrointestinal hormones on life is becoming the next scientific focus. The Buddhist scriptures say: You monks! By all kinds of diet, as medicine, good is better than evil and cannot be increased or decreased. I'm so interested that I can get rid of hunger and thirst. Such as bees picking flowers, take its taste without losing its color and fragrance. A bhikkhu, who is supported by others, is self-satisfied and wants nothing, which is not good for his kindness. For example, a wise man can raise as many cows as he can, not too many, so as to exhaust his physical strength.

"Ten Doors of the Law of the Sea" Bajie lives near the fourth cloud of Parting Gate: if he eats until dusk, if he crosses the boundary of Chinese food, or even abandons cooked food such as dry rice, cakes and noodle soup between sunrise in the east tomorrow, he will rest in peace, be healthy forever, be rich and far away, feel sorry for him, and then leave the Three Realms quickly. All living beings live on food. If they can reduce their eating habits, their lineages will gradually get rid of them.

All this means that a light diet (even not eating after noon) can make you healthy and successful in practice.

In the mother, the fetus absorbs nutrition and oxygen with the navel, but breathes in the abdomen; When people grow up, the breathing part moves up to the middle of the stomach, and when they are old and weak, they breathe with their lungs for a short time. The purpose of yogis is to restore youthful vitality, which requires the recovery of abdominal breathing. Abdominal breathing can develop the abdomen, but eating too much will block the airway of the abdomen, so you can revive the abdomen without eating after noon, and your vitality will last forever.

Moreover, after noon, the yang spirit drops and the yin spirit rises. Eating food will aggravate yin qi. Morning is natural food, noon is Buddhist food, and night is ghost food. Eating after noon will accumulate garbage in the stomach and large and small intestines, so not eating after noon is the best way to clear the intestines, because the small intestines and the heart are both exterior and interior, and the intestines are clear and clear, which is conducive to practice.

Overeating or eating in the afternoon will make the meridians impassable. The meridians are blocked, the body is tired and sleepy, and the heart is blocked; If the heart is closed, the Tao industry will be abolished.

Eating dinner at 5-7 o'clock will make the kidney meridian impassable, unable to turn back, raise the fire of life gate, form the essence of filth, and encourage love;

Eat at 7-9 o'clock, resulting in pericardium obstruction and inability to remove evil spirits around the heart. Over time, the heart living in it can't dominate the gods, and the brain thinking is controlled by the evil spirits in the pericardium;

9- 1 1 point to eat, triple energizer blocked;

165438+ 0- 3 am, the burden of gallbladder and liver is heavy, and the function of detoxification and blood exchange is reduced, which seriously affects sleep. Early the next morning, Yang couldn't get up easily. When you get up in the morning, the turbid gas accumulated in the intestine is difficult to be discharged, forming toxins in the body and entering the blood and viscera. In the morning, at the best stage of absorbing nutrition, I don't think about eating, forming a vicious circle. At noon, my heart is heavily burdened.

Therefore, if you don't eat after noon, you can keep your head clear, your heart clear and your body clear.

It must be noted that not eating in the afternoon is a practice method of Buddhist practice, which Buddhists call holding the afternoon. Strictly speaking, this is not suitable for popularization. In order to avoid misleading, I won't explain it here. Holding noon is only a form, and it is more important to cultivate your own purity, purity and less delusion. With the foundation of meditation, a person will naturally not feel hungry in the state of meditation, and naturally reach the realm of fasting day and noon.

Just want to skip lunch, it will ruin your health, be careful!