We are in the month of Ramadan right now, and people are fasting from food from sun up to sunset. It’s a month where there is supposed to be reflection and fasting. It was said by a great sage that if during the month of Ramadan you can’t fast from anger, then Allah doesn’t need you to give up food. The point being that real fasting encompasses the fasting from the qualities that bring you into a state of torpor and take you out of any connection to reality. And in order to fast from torpor, one has to understand how torpor happens, where it comes from, how it occurs, what sustains it, what maintains it. How does it grow inside of you? What are the signs that all of a sudden you’re involved in torpor? Well, the repository of torpor in your being is the mind. So, there has to be some understanding of what goes on in the mind and how the mind works.
