The Sacredness of Meals

Along with meditation, coming together at mealtime is one of the most holy and important times of your day, and, for that reason, needs to be treated with the requisite level of sacredness that it deserves.

The following are some simple guidelines for you to derive the highest vibration—and the greatest blessings—from not only your gathering (even when dining "alone") but also your food itself.

The consciousness you are in when you create is what you create.

It is important to treat the preparing of food as a sacred ceremony, for the people who eat it will be consuming the energy you were feeling while you were creating it. If you are in a loving mood while making a meal, you will be serving love to whomever imbibes of the food, regardless of what sits upon the plate; and the opposite is also true (if you are angry, they will be fed anger). Add to that the importance of securing wholesome, organic food (and, ideally, vegan with a high concentration of raw food, though the same sacred practices can be applied to non-vegan foods), best obtained from local growers, and you have the recipe for the most nourishing meal imaginable—on all levels of being.

Some of the ways you can create a sacred space include prayers, blessings, candles, and soft, ambient music. This could include singing devotional songs; chanting a prayer, mantra, or blessing; or even humming sweetly. Bless the food while you are preparing it, every step of the way, ongoingly blessing the growers, the sellers, the diners, and Mother Earth for providing it. Be in a state of deep gratefulness, and focus on the joy and privilege of being able to serve others (and yourself) in this way.

Remember that the real and only food we eat is prana (life force energy). Our earthly meals are only one of many different vehicles through which we draw prana into our bodies and auric fields. Others include meditation, yoga, pranayama, receiving darshan and shaktipat, healing music, art, exercise, and wholesome communion with animals and nature.

The experience of eating is one of deep communion with your Lord God. Eat each meal with gratitude and respect. It is a wise practice to eat some of your meals in silence. If you speak at all, offer only words of love and joy, perhaps sharing your gratefulness for something beautiful which happened that day. Let go of the tendency to chatter and gossip. And never rant, complain, or discuss business during meals.

I also highly recommend that everyone incorporate fasting one day each week—in addition to your yearly, or seasonal, fasts. This will kindle a deeper appreciation for the gift and privilege of having food; develop greater compassion, empathy, and desire to help those who are starving in the world; and create more balanced appetite and consumption habits, by actually mitigating tendencies to gorge, binge, waste, or otherwise abuse the tradition of eating. You will be amazed at the countless gifts you will receive by surrendering one day’s worth of food each week. Finally, as we are all connected in the Great Circle of Life, your selfless offering will alchemically reduce starvation and poverty on the planet in a much more far-reaching and impactful way than any offering of money or time you could make, because this type of gift is wired directly into the collective consciousness at the cellular and even sub-atomic levels.

Always remember that there are three stages of eating:  preparation, consumption, and clean-up. If you have not created enough time to complete all three phases of the meal—in grace, you do not have enough time to eat. In that case, better it would be to be about your busy-ness, and return when you can give your "breaking of bread" its due place of honor in your day.

After your meal, the practice of restoring the space to an even higher level of grace than you found it will cap the dining experience with the ultimate blessing, as the next ones to come along will enter into and receive your blessing which, in the karmic cycle of life, returns it once again to you and all your future endeavors.

- Louix Dor Dempriey

“A Toast”

Now is a time like no other
For hands to be joined, of sister and brother.
In the heart it is known that love is the way
To greet each new challenge, as does Dawn a new day.

Gone are the hours to lumber and chore
Ongoingly swindled by doctrines of yore.
The soul’s gaze now exalted has found a new Sun
Lighting a world wherein all are One.

Remember thee well, the promise once granted
That the self, if surrendered, would create life enchanted.
A prophecy of God, is this yours to fulfill
Removing the walls which surround it, all the fear of His will.

Traveling the road to eternity is truly no riddle
Using the tools of Christ’s trade allays straying from middle.
Compassion, devotion, grace, and desire
Imbued with obedience and patience, will take thee still higher.

Here is to you, to he, and to she
Who give freely your love so that this can be.
You are that promise and I AM the way
My life is My message, forever to stay.

                                                                – Louix Dor Dempriey

How do I have a good relationship with my Master?

Q:  How do I have a good relationship with my Master? Inwardly I am often rebelling at the feeling that my free will is being usurped. In fact, I no longer feel I have a free will, or that such a thing as “free will” even exists. I am surrendering more and more, day by day, but I wonder:  Must my surrender be forced? And if my surrender is forced, can it still be called “surrender?”

A:  How you can have a good relationship with your Master is to fall head over heels in love with, and in gratitude for, this being. It is to realize that what you now have is the single, greatest gift bestowed upon any human being on Planet Earth—to walk with a living Master. This is the greatest, and only, vehicle necessary for the liberation of the soul. Few have ever attained Enlightenment without the aid of a Guru. There is only one way out of the labyrinth of Separation and that is with the help of one who lives outside of that labyrinth, in the land of Illumination and Freedom. No one inside the labyrinth can get you out, no matter how rich, famous, or smart that one is or professes to be. How to have a good relationship with this one is to move into a level of such deep appreciation for the gifts you are being given and to see this one as your victory, as your key to the kingdom of heaven. Respect and listen to this one.

As far as your feelings over your free will being usurped, know that the last and greatest gift of Creation is free will. It is never usurped. Yours was a statement spoken by a victim. In order for anyone to take you over (as you say) or to force your surrender, you would have to be a victim. And since there are no victims, that is anything but the case. The Master’s will is attuned to God’s will. Your will—the human, separate will—is guided and directed by the overwhelming and all-consuming desire to gratify the senses, to continue numbing yourself so you will not feel separate from God. No true Master would, or even has the power to, override your free will. In God’s infinite love and patience, God waits. The well does not travel on wheels to those who are thirsty.

Surrender cannot be forced, nor is it an action. You do not “do” surrender. Surrender is a state of consciousness that you attain by way of purifying yourself, by letting go of, and moving beyond, your inauthenticities, of all that no longer serves you… all of which your Master is well aware (infinitely more aware than you could ever be). Be grateful and listen to this one. Consider yourself both blessed and a very, very hungry and mature soul, that you were even able to magnetize this blessing to yourself. It says more about you than it does about your Master. Where you place God in your life is where God shows up in your life. Evidently, your hunger and desire for God is enormous, for very few people (in proportion to the number of people on the planet) walk with Masters. Furthermore, since whatever you place your focus on, you become, it is by walking with mastery that you will become mastery.

Holy Days

Throughout the year, the Louix Dor Dempriey Foundation celebrates Holy Days honoring many of the world's major religious and spiritual traditions (in addition to those that the Foundation has established), as an expression of the Foundation's guiding principle that we are all the peoples of the world are one family residing in the heart of God. It is the honoring of all cultures and all faiths that will remove the barriers that have long existed among Earth's many peoples, the same barriers which have instigated many of the wars on this planet. To celebrate and honor these days, Louix's ashrams and study groups create sacred ceremonies that include prayers, devotional singing, meditation, shared meals, and community service.

The Holy Days for 2010 are: 
(*These dates are for the Northern Hemisphere.)

12 February	Shivaratri
13 February	The Divine Romance
7 March	Anniversary of Louix's Enlightenment
20 March	Spring Equinox*
2 April	Good Friday
4 April	Easter Sunday
22 April	Earth Day
21 May	Wesak
21 June	Summer Solstice
25 July	Guru Purnima
11 September	Ganesha Chaturthi
23 September	Autumn Equinox*
31 October	All Hallows' Eve
1 November	All Saints' Day; World Vegan Day
15-17 December	Louix's Birthday Celebrations
17 December	Louix's Birthday
21 December	Winter Solstice*
25 December	Christmas
31 December	New Year's Eve