Friends:
Seeing the Disgusting Aspects of Food disables Craving!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
The experience of loathsome disgust with all food, Bhikkhus & friends,
developed and frequently repeated, brings a high reward and blessing,
and has the Deathless Dimension as its basis & the very nearby goal.
Whoever,
Bhikkhus & friends, often trains perceiving disgust with food, his
mind shrinks and turns away from voracious greed, he is neither
attracted, captivated nor tempted, but feels only equanimity or
disgust!
Just as, Bhikkhus & friends, a cock's feather or a piece of bowstring,
thrown into the fire, shrinks up, twists, rolls itself up, does not
stretch out again: just so in one who often entertains the
experience of disgust in all food, the mind shrinks back from
greediness, turns away from it,
is repulsed by food, is not attracted; and equanimity or disgust
arises!
Source: The Numerical
Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikāya AN 7:46
http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/Index.Numerical.htm
The
experience of Disgust in Food includes:
Seeing it brings the danger and tribulation of having a fragile and
sore body.
Seeing what it becomes like when chewed and sunk: Like dogs vomit!
Seeing that getting it daily costs one much pain of seeking, work, &
cleaning.
Seeing that it is turned into secretions as bile, pus, blood, snot,
slime, & spit.
Seeing that it undigested stays as vomit in the foul receptacle of the
stomach.
Seeing that it when digested is turned into diarrheic brown fluid in
the intestines.
Seeing that it causes a lifelong excretion of stinking messy excrement
& urine.
Seeing the side effects of obesity, diabetes, cardiac failure, and
hypertension.
Source: Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga XI 5th century AC.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=771100
The Disgust of Food!