[Manymoons]

zenhousewife

Cheese and chocolate are certainly worthy of down fall. They are tasty for sure!

Perhaps you could use a small amount of cheese as a condiment on dishes served in order to satisfy your desire without eating excessive quantity. Use a small amount that is just enough to give that yin/mother energy taste. As you develop more of your own yin, the compulsion toward taking such a yin from the outside could diminish. Other sources of yin can be drawn from color, rest, music, altering routine, breathing exercise and even meditating,etc. As a clue, our compulsions toward excess yin/yang is a signal that we are deficient in that particular yin/yang. Not just in the body but in the spirit as well. The body and spirit are intimately connected, so one effects/reflects the other. This is the ultimate adventure--to discover and develop our deeper selves. Enjoy the search.

As far as chocolate is concerned, YOU ARE DOOMED. There is NO HOPE!

I'm kidding of coarse!!! My wife uses roasted dandelion root tea and/or some such coffee substitute as a chocolate flavor in making creamy (yin texture) pudding and pie filling as well as cakes and cookies. Experimentation and practice could produce a chocolate like treat that is as tasty as a more balanced and sensitive pallet could want.

Ever one wants the yin. It is our birth right. A problem develops when we consume excess yin in an attempt to satisfy that need, because those elements that are yin producing can also be yang depleting. As the yang diminishes, so does the yin. Yin and yang justify each other and are dependent on the other. Can't have one without the other. Therefore, a yang condition is prerequisite to containing the yin. Your own happiness as an example.

It may appear a "catch 22" exists. Welcome to the yin/yang adventure. Western pragmatic thinking can render this an insurmountable puzzle, and yet it's almost so simple it becomes illusive. At the heart of yin is yang. At the heart of yang is yin.

If this is as clear as mud, ad some roasted dandelion and make it chocolaty.

You can make your condition more yang (strong) with this food. You can also make your condition excessively yang with this food to the point of annihilation of the yin. Go slowly and observe what you experience. There is no usefulness is moving so quickly that you loose control and abandon the journey. It is all there in you and around you. Connect and participate as you are able. Be assured it is always there and take the time to see and feel it.

Still traveling as though it is my first day,
Manymoons