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The One-Straw Revolution - Multiworld India

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mind. I hoped that the food mandala I drew earlier would serve as aguide to show at a glance the relationship of various foods to each otherand to human beings. But you can throw that away too after you haveseen it once.<strong>The</strong> prime consideration is for a person to develop the sensitivity toallow the body to choose food by itself. Thinking only about the foodsthemselves and leaving the spirit aside, is like making visits to thetemple, reading the sutras, and leaving Buddha on the outside. Ratherthan studying philosophical theory to reach an understanding of food, itis better to arrive at a theory from within one's daily diet.Doctors take care of sick people; healthy people are cared for bynature. Instead of getting sick and then becoming absorbed in a naturaldiet to get well, one should live in a natural environment so that sicknessdoes not appear.<strong>The</strong> young people who come to stay in the huts on the mountain andlive a primitive life, eating natural foods and practicing natural farming,are aware of man's ultimate purpose, and they have set out to live inaccordance with it in the most direct way.146

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