Tahn Pamutto explains the deep teaching on nutriment – the ‘food’ on which our minds become dependent and bound to. He also reads through sutta SN 12.64 and explains how this teaching is used in the higher training. Seeing that our unwholesome mental states of greed, hatred, and delusion are dependent on these four nutriments for their continued existence, we can begin to investigate how removing the nutriments might lead to the cessation of our suffering.
Tahn Pamutto continues the talk on the Four Nutriments for the daylong retreat by reading and expounding on SN 12.63 – The Son’s Flesh. This sutta uses vivid imagery to convey how someone in the training of the higher mind might begin to relate to nutriment in order to summon the willpower to abandon those sources feeding their defilements.