The One-Straw Revolution - Multiworld India

and consciously sustained. But if the doctrines are entered into toodeeply (as is necessary in the study of Eastern medicine) one enters thedomain of science and fails to make the essential escape fromdiscriminating perception.Swept along by the subtleties of human knowledge withoutrecognizing its limits, the practitioner of the diet of principle comes toconcern himself only with separate objects. But when trying to grasp themeaning of nature with a wide and far-reaching vision, he fails to noticethe small things happening at his feet.The Typical Sick Person's DietSickness comes when people draw apart from nature. The severity ofthe disease is directly proportional to the degree of separation. If a sickperson returns to a healthy environment often the disease will disappear.When alienation from nature becomes extreme, the number of sickpeople increases. Then the desire to return to nature becomes stronger.But in seeking to return to nature, there is no clear understanding of whatnature is, and so the attempt proves futile.Even if one lives a primitive life back in the mountains, he may stillfail to grasp the true objective. If yon try to do something, your effortswill never achieve the desired result.People living in the cities face tremendous difficulty in trying toattain a natural diet. Natural food is simply not available, becausefarmers have stopped growing it. Even if they could buy natural food,people's bodies would need to be fit to digest such hearty fare.In this sort of situation, if you try to eat wholesome meals or attain abalanced yin-yang diet, you144