The One-Straw Revolution - Multiworld India

Nature's Food MandalaMy thinking on natural food is the same as it is on natural farming.Just as natural farming complies with nature as it is, that is, nature asapprehended by the non-discriminating mind, so natural diet is a way ofeating in which foods gathered in the wild or crops grown throughnatural farming, and fish caught by natural methods, are acquired withoutintentional action through the non-discriminating mind.Even though I speak of non-intentional action and non-method,wisdom acquired over time in the course of daily life is, of course,acknowledged. The use of salt and fire in cooking could be criticized asthe first step in the separation of man from nature, but it is simply naturalwisdom as apprehended by primitive people, and should be sanctioned aswisdom bestowed by heaven.Crops which have evolved over thousands and tens of thousands ofyears by dwelling together with human beings are not products bornentirely from the discriminating knowledge of the farmer, and can bethought of as naturally occurring foods. But the instantly altered varietieswhich have not evolved under natural circumstances, but rather havebeen developed by an agricultural science which has drawn far awayfrom nature, as well as mass-produced fish, shellfish, and domesticanimals, fall outside that category.