The One-Straw Revolution - Multiworld India

Summing Up DietIn this world there exist four main classifications of diet:(1) A lax diet conforming to habitual desires and taste preferences.People following this diet sway back and forth erratically in response towhims and fancies. This diet could be called self-indulgent, emptyeating.(2) The standard nutritional diet of most people, proceeding frombiological conclusions. Nutritious foods are eaten for the purpose ofmaintaining the life of the body. It could be called materialist, scientificeating.(3) The diet based on spiritual principles and idealistic philosophy.Lim iting foods, aiming toward compression, most "natural" diets fall intothis category. This could be called the diet of principle.(4) The natural diet, following the will of heaven. Discarding allhuman knowledge, this diet could be called the diet ofnon-discrimination.People first draw away from the empty diet which is the source ofcountless diseases. Next, becoming disenchanted with the scientific diet,which merely attempts to maintain biological life, many proceed to a dietof principle. Finally, transcending142