The One-Straw Revolution - Multiworld India

Food and FarmingThis book on natural farming necessarily includes a consideration ofnatural food. This is because food and farming are the front and back ofone body. It is clearer than firelight that if natural farming is notpracticed natural food will not be available to the public. But if naturaldiet is not established the farmer will remain confused about what togrow.Unless people become natural people, there can be neither naturalfarming nor natural food. In one of the huts on the mountain I left thewords, "Right Food, Right Action, Right Awareness”[this motto isphrased after the Buddhist Eightfold Path of spiritual realization]inscribed on a pinewood plaque above the fireplace. The three cannot beseparated from one another. If one is missing, none can be realized. Ifone is realized, all are realized.People complacently view the world as a place where "progress"grows out of turmoil and confusion. But purposeless and destructivedevelopment invites confusion of thought, invites nothing less than thedegeneration and collapse of humankind. If it is not clearly understoodwhat the non-moving source of all this activity is- what nature is- it willbe impossible to recover our health.147