It is a lack of our good will to express annoyance at another person because of the sounds they make when they eat or drink.
Here are some observations about this situation:
We don't get annoyed at the sounds we make when we eat or drink.
We tend to get more annoyed when others are eating and drinking and we are not.
We tend to get annoyed when others eat and drink quickly most especially when they are enjoying what they are eating and drinking.
We tend not to get annoyed when we have eaten and we have prepared the food the other person is eating and enjoying.
These observations aid us to understand that the annoyance we feel is actually in a big part from the factor of selfishness in our psychology.
It seems that when selfishness is pleased somehow we are ok, but when it itsn't we get annoyed.
The remedy here, is to feel happy that the other person is enjoying nourishing their body howevere they chose to.
Selfishness gets disturbed at others enjoying nourishing their body while we are not able to in that given moment. So if we tell ourselves: "no worries soon we will be eating too and drinking also". It is like we created that selfishness in times of great lack, hence explaining the intensity of the annoyance, where our survival instinct is being triggered.
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Did this comprehension arise during a retreat meal? 😂
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