The One-Straw Revolution - Multiworld India

need practically supernatural means and powers of judgment. Far from areturn to nature, a complicated, strange sort of "natural" diet arises andthe individual is only drawn further away from nature.If you look inside "health food" stores these days you will find abewildering assortment of fresh foods, packaged foods, vitamins, anddietary supplements. In the literature many different types of diets arepresented as being "natural," nutritious, and the best for health. Ifsomeone says it is healthful to boil foods together, there is someone elsewho says foods boiled together are only good for making people sick.Some emphasize the essential value of salt in the diet, others say that toomuch salt causes disease. If there is someone who shuns fruit as yin andfood for monkeys, there is someone else who says fruit and vegetablesare the very best foods for providing longevity and a happy disposition.At various times and in various circumstances all of these opinionscould be said to be correct, and so people come to be confused. Or rather,to a confused person, all of these theories become material for creatinggreater confusion.Nature is in constant transition, changing from moment to moment.People cannot grasp nature's true appearance. The face of nature isunknowable. Trying to capture the unknowable in theories andformalized doctrines is like trying to catch the wind in a butterfly net.If you hit the mark on the wrong target, you have missed.Humanity is like a blind man who does not know where he isheading. He gropes around with the cane of scientific knowledge,depending on yin and yang to set his course.What I want to say is, don't eat food with your head, and that is tosay get rid of the discriminating145