During Tết, from day 4 onward, I began fasting to purify body and mind.
I went a total of 7 days without eating anything. Because I do this periodically, that much is enough.
There are several interesting things:
Before fasting, I “emptied” everything out, purged, flushed my bowels, and thoroughly detoxified. Only after leaving my body relatively “empty” did I begin fasting continuously for 7 days.
During the 7 days, I hardly had any inner “struggle,” with no “attacks” of food cravings even in the first days. I did not suffer while waiting for time to pass quickly. In truth, there were a few moments when I missed food, but they could be counted on one hand. Those feelings passed quickly, without lingering fantasies, mental suppression, or the need for willpower. This was the result of a long meditation practice and working with 1 set of my own needs.
During the 7 days, I continued living, meeting, and working as usual, because many meetings started from the 5th day of Tết onward. I felt no weakness, lack of vitality, or lack of energy. My mind remained clear and my creative thinking strong.
After 7 days of fasting, I felt as though I had not skipped even 1 meal. That was the most interesting part. At that point, I fully understood that I could fast for 15 days or 30 days. There was no stomach shrinkage, no accumulating effect making later fasting days far worse than the first ones. Once the key is understood, 5, 7, and 15 days are alike. The evidence is that after 7 days it still felt as though I had ‘not skipped even 1 meal.’
And I received the message: “You have already completed this lesson before. 7 days is enough. You do not need to fast any longer. No need to count. No need to strive. No need to push past any limit here. No need to prove anything more. Nor do you need to fast longer to treat anything. Learn another lesson.”
So I began eating with my family again for the joy of it, and everyone worried less. Normally, when resuming eating, you should start slowly, little by little, so the body gradually readjusts (the same applies to fasting: you can gradually reduce your intake). As for me, I remember slipping back into a normal eating rhythm, as though the fast had never happened. Everything was harmonious and natural.
And for quite a while now, I have been eating only 1 main meal a day, no longer eating in the evening after 6pm, except on some special occasions.
This experience helped me clearly understand some truths about my body and mind.
However, to “eat nothing for many days” yet feel as though you have “eaten fully,” as I did after 7 days with everything still normal, you need to understand: food is energy. You eat to take in energy that sustains life. This means that if you have another way to take in energy, you do not need to eat, or do not need to eat very much.
By looking at how a person Eats, we can tell where they are on their evolutionary journey.
You may be able to go without food, but do not fast for many days because of this article. If you do not eat food, you must know how to “eat”… the sun, eat the moon, “live on air” – it is real :- ). Or, generally, “eat” the universe’s energy. What some places call Prana (India), others call Chi/Qi (China), and others call Reiki (Japan)…
Meditation is 1 way to “consume” cosmic energy. There is nothing wrong with consuming cosmic energy if you do so mindfully, alongside developing your inner qualities.
It is an infinite source of energy that never runs out, unlike the earth's finite resources.
And this is 1 “secret” revealed in the principles and mechanisms of fasting.
This is also what people who rely too heavily on reason, whose minds ramble through arguments but who lack direct experiential knowledge, work so hard to deny. Denying something through logic while entirely lacking experimentation is like a fish being unable to imagine 1 day living on land.
Of course, if you find that 1 day or 3 days does not “work” for you, you will stop on your own; you do not need to go on for 5, 7 or 10 days and put yourself in danger. Remember, do not undertake fasting on your own before knowing how to “feed on” cosmic energy. If you have already had good results, congratulations.
You can learn more from reputable sources and experience it yourself. If you want information from me as the source, I will not say more here, but if conditions allow, we will discuss this topic further 
TMT.
