[umeshoyu]

I had learned that the Buddha died at a feast from eating pork.
His disciples were there and he did not want to them to eat pork
because it would lay a heavy burden on their consciousness, so he ate it.
He had had enough of this world and was ready to move on, so by eating
this pork, he could rid himself of his body.
Anyway, if it wasn't pork, it's still the same thing. If he had supreme
judgement or Buddhahood, complete enlightenment, then he knew
exactly what he was doing. He wanted to leave this world and knew the
meaning of food. Why did not all his students die as well if the food
was rancid or poisonous? Then he must have saved them from it by eating
it all himself. Pork is more poisonous than rancid vegetable food. He would
not have died from that. I eat rancid food all the time! If it is vegetable
quality, then it can be beneficial to the intestines. It makes one brilliant
and gives the ability to see into the future.
He may have been a beggar and no glutton, but a free man can eat a little
or a lot depending on the situation. He was not rigid and it was not beyond
him to eat a lot if he so chose to.

Front and back means yin and yang or the world of polarity. Beyond that is
oneness or the world of the infinite. The back of oneness is all phenomena.
There is no end to this movement. This could be argued, but only experience
can satisfy this query of the endless end.

Thanks