Caffeine will deplete B vitamins so good to take some if you like to
drink coffee or stimulating teas (even Green tea). It's not advocated
for vata types (nor pittas) unless your sub dosha is kapha.
On 02/15/2014 01:42 PM, [email protected] wrote:
As usual this coffee seems to have a premium price. I can get Organic
coffee 10oz for about $7.00 at the local supermarket instead of 8 oz
for about $13 for 'Vedic' coffee so it is more than double the cost, a
typical movement overcharge. Exactly what do the Vedas say about
coffee? I bet nothing at all. According to Wikipedia '[t]he earliest
credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee
tree appears in the middle of the 15th century, in the Sufi
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufi> Muslim monasteries around Mocha
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocha,_Yemen> in Yemen'. That is long
after all the Vedic liturature was written. So coffee is not really
associated with the term 'Vedic' at all.
As for coffee interfering with subtle levels of awareness, it sort of
depends on how 'embodied' one experiences things. When the mind thinks
consciousness is embodied, then how the body feels is strongly
reflected in what you feel. When you are not identified with the body
so much, coffee does not have that much effect on what is thought of
as subtle. Having 'subtle awareness' is really a conceptual device to
help one settle down, to become aware of things that might interfere
with meditation etc. But when consciousness equals being in
experience, subtle really does not make much sense since everything
has that value so the differentiation between gross and subtle is seen
as not significant. But it can be very important for people learning
to meditate and for a number of years after that. I tend to drink
regular coffee and Irish breakfast tea, which is pretty strong. Still
caffeine can affect the body, so lately I have been tapering down on
the stronger stuff in the evening, it just depends on whether I want
to shift into the sleep state at midnight or 3am.
