This program discusses the possibility of breatharianism, or living without eating food, and is not a full instruction. For your safety, please do not attempt to cease eating without proper expert guidance.

HOST: In script-xures, the human body is often referred to as the temple of God. Yet, it is quite an uncommon privilege for any soul to attain this sacred abode that houses the Divine, as it is truly a blessing to be reborn as a human being. On several occasions, Supreme Master Ching Hai has spoken about the rarity of this phenomenon:

Supreme Master Ching Hai: To be reincarnated in the human world is hard. You have to have enough Human Quality. You have to have affinity with the parents and with the society, with the people around which you are born. Very difficult.

To be a human, you need some merit. You have done something good in the past in order to be able to pick a human birth.

HOST: As a living temple of God, the human body is fully equipped with miraculous wonders that can be awakened in those who are spiritually conscious and have complete faith in the Creator of all life.

Inedia, Latin for “fasting,” is the human ability to live without food. Since time immemorial, there have always been individuals who can sustain themselves on prana, or the vital life force. Through the grace of the Providence, inediates, people who follow a food-free lifestyle, can draw the energy from nature to nourish themselves:

Supreme Master Ching Hai:  They live on the chi from the ground, or from the forest, and from the sun and from the air. They make use of all that. Or they live on love, on faith alone.

HOST: These individuals are known as breatharians, solarians, waterians, or pranarians, and they come from all walks of life, from different cultures, and all corners of the world.

Indeed, the possibilities and miracles in this life as our benevolent Creator has designed for us are endless; we only need to connect within to recognize our abounding largess as God’s children.

Supreme Master Ching Hai has lovingly recommended a weekly series on Supreme Master Television to introduce those individuals of the past and present who have chosen to live food-free on Earth. May their spiritual stories enthrall you; may hearts be opened, and horizons be expanded.

We now invite you to join us for our program entitled, “The Venerable Master Guang Qin: Food-free through Samadhi,” on Between Master and Disciples.

Since the time of Shakyamuni Buddha, Buddhist monks and nuns have followed the tradition of leading an ascetic lifestyle, renouncing material possessions and attachments to attain perfect wisdom and achieve enlightenment.

Their life is dedicated to the spiritual upliftment of humankind, as well as their own personal cultivation. Aside from the daily activities, most of their time is spent in meditation. Absorbed in meditation, the monks or nuns oftentimes forgo food for days or months, sometimes years, as is the case with Ram Bahadur Bomjan,
the Buddha Boy from Nepal, who at one time went food-free for four years while deep in samadhi.

The inner bliss of meditation far exceeds the temporal satisfaction of physical food. The renowned Venerable Master Guang Qin of Formosa (Taiwan) was no different. He had been known to live without food and drink while engaged in deep meditation.