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soak dried beans Invite them to life. Seeds -- beans -- they are the stuff of life. Created by life, infused with life -- then protected and instructed to birth themselves later -- to come alive when conditions suit. There is no delay after mammalian fertilization. Life begins immediately in dark, moist wombs. Plant seeds must wait until they find their own moist, dark places. Seed germination is the birthing of life. To come alive, dried beans first need water. Light alone will not spark life. Life-bringing channels are restored only by water. Once breath is possible, life may begin. They grow -- Magic. Seeds convert simple starches into complex and brilliant forms. Even if halted after only a few hours, life will have begun. Soak beans, if possible, at least 8-24 hours. Then rest them, exposed to air, briefly before cooking. In contrast, to drop dry, patiently-waiting, beans into boiling water is to rob them, each, of a chance to live -- racing them from an unreadiness to breathe to the extinguishment of its very possibility. Consider the notion of softening beans, rather than beating them with heat -- of pushing gently on indigestable elements, rather than vanquishing the complex. Raise the water temperature gradually -- cook slowly -- allow life to leave as gently as it arrived. Retain that alchemical magic of life. Or to experience their full vitality, do not cook beans at all -- simply soak, sprout and eat. en matematica: (any life) x 0 = 0 (any life) x (0 < n < 1) = 0 < life < 1 (any life) x 1 = life To re-state: Life is what is so special here. Ingest vitality, and invite into our beings more life. Without life, we can slip into a realm where beans are lumps of nutrients -- the elements and minerals that comprise their form -- where the acts of growing, cooking and eating suggest a realm of mining plants for subsistence. A claim: Mining is disrespectful to life. Another: Respect for life is a universal love. namaste douglas (dedicated, please, to michael eakes) Posted 5/11/2007 link
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