Why Buddha used to beg for food, spiritually speaking?
It was a practice in accord with a life that does not generate income to be able to acquire material possessions. This left-home life is a life of cultivation. Without income, there is no food. No food, one cannot survive to cultivate. So… Buddha employed the practice of systematic begging in which he would only submit to the kind donations of others. He would not beg past the 7th door. No donations = one does not eat today. This practice was this way so that the only reason why Buddha ate, was for physical nourishment and sustainment in order to continue cultivating. This process supports the Buddha’s practice to not choose what he eats or has anything to do with the personal “desire” or “choice” to eat. If you request for food merely because you have to eat in order to cultivate, you do not eat because of desire for food. If you eat whatever is given to you, then whether the donors give you meat or vegetables or garbage, you practice the non-desire and non-greed in materials and fl
