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Comment on Typical Macrobiotic Breakfast by Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:18:21 +0000

This is great, I’m trying to eat a healthier way and Macrobiotic eating is a goal, but difficult to understand sometimes.
Thank you for all the info.
Kathy Wilso

Comment on The Illuminati are not bad at all by vedicwarrior

vedicwarrior — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:04:10 +0000

very wise insight.. namste

Comment on Typical Macrobiotic Breakfast by Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:22:05 +0000

I am starting a macrobiotic diet and stumbled on your site. The pictures are great. Like another poster commented, every picture helps. Thank you for keeping this blog!

Comment on Macrobiotic adventurous traveling, living in a wild Nature by Yani, Indonesia

Yani, Indonesia — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:44:44 +0000

WOW!!! thats the word that came out from my mind, when i read all u written on your wall, also the gorgeous pics of the Nature. I am really really love nature, mountains are the biggest excitement in me, and really would love to learn more and more about Microbiotic. I hope someday God let me walk with you round the gorgeous nature … i really hope so.

Iam the lates comentator here … but really once you put your footsteps in indonesia contact me. I would really love to walk together along the Nature

regards
Yani

Comment on How much belongings do you need? by Vera

Vera — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:04:23 +0000

I find the idea of simplicity very appealing. I think it is very attractive if you want to be flexible. I find it opens for new possibilities, but also I find that this might make you slightly more yang. Of course, the main idea of simplicity is not to buy new things. The idea of de-cluttering is good, but how sustainable it is, if we think that re-using is very nature friendly? I mean, it is fine to give away things you don’t need anymore and somebody else can use it, but once you would need it, you have to f. ex. purchase it again. While if you keep some of your stuff at home, you can re-use it later (make new clothes, make some craft out of it, use it as toys for kids etc.) and you save your time by going somewhere out of your home in order to get it and in addition you have fun while creating it. To have this opportunity might make you feel more relaxed also, to have a feeling that you have plenty on your own. Another example might be to have at home a wide variety of mb food at stock, so that you can also enjoy the feeling that you live an abundance (while you might not necessarily have the same feeling while shopping in a regular supermarket or eating out in regular restaurant or if you have just rice at home). And what about craft/art – to do some art, you might need some material at home, it is not necessarily work-related, but it makes you more yin and relaxed (on the other hand you could state that doing anything creative is producing clutter again). I guess we just need to find our personal balance.

Comment on How much belongings do you need? by Neon

Neon — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:05:24 +0000

Hey Henry, thanks for the reply.
Your blog url doesn’t work.

I am far from living very simply. But I am trying slowly to get better at it.
I live with my parents at the Czech Republic.

Comment on How much belongings do you need? by Henry S.

Henry S. — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:46:01 +0000

hey creator of this site!
Im Henry,22 years, from Germany, and im surprised of these macrobiotic articles, and i could wish to follow your way of simple living. Are you living in any communities, now? Im bored of the normal life and perhaps i want to go to tiberkul, the sibirian ecovillage. Here are living vegans, having children and they are very activ in thier spiritual lifestyle.

watch my website!

i*m curious if you write back

Henry

Comment on Peace Pilgrim – Living the Simple Life by How much belongings do you need? | Macrobiotic Life

How much belongings do you need? | Macrobiotic Life — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:12:27 +0000

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Comment on Feelings versus Logic by Neon

Neon — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:09:02 +0000

Thanks Pauli for your thoughts. I will process them more deeply later, because now I am not able to think about this topic from the view I was writing this article. I am now experiencing different processing of the reality, from the Bhakti-yoga teaching’s view, of pure Love (nothing else – no duality, just Love is all). I don’t know if the Love-way-only is the heart path or something else. I know only how Love is felt, how is it when it flows through me. And when it flows, all mind-questions, theories are somehow gone, there’s only so many things to do, to repair this broken society – I think, I am getting glimpses of the bhakti-experience.

Before (from the mind point of view), I would be lost in the vision of so much destructed society, so many things already gone wrong and my brain would think up so many problems, obstacles, that would explain why it’s better to do nothing, because it’s too late. In the end, the mind would construct some logical theory, why it’s still not-too-late to do something.

But the no-mind, loving-perspective is totally different sort of experiencing the reality – there’s no Time, only here&now and no problems, obstacles, only things to do, no matter the logic.

I like this love-flow through me and I pray for never ending of this experience – somehow, it was always lost.. I was lost and with me everything I touched with my mind-logic Hope it will stick with me longer now.

And I like the crazy behaviour of your friend. I adore her too, very much. It’s a big inspiration. I am playing with similar thoughts, ideas, visions, but as you said.. we are cowards.. but I am sure the strength will come to all of US

Comment on Feelings versus Logic by paulina

paulina — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:26:48 +0000

Well, I actually don’t see a point in being worried all the time, all this “thinking about consequences, about problems, barriers..” it’s just a mental stuff, it’s trying to get you distracted, .. do we have to think all the time in the end? If you just stop thinking and start following the heart, as you talked about it later, then there won’t be any space for fear, don’t you think? IMHO fear is not constructive and that’s why we should definitely get rid of it. (I am working on it and it’s not easy, I know. But what’s easy in life?;-))

You’ve asked: “Is there any reason you shouldn’t be really happy when you feel so?” I don’t think so. You MUST be happy when you feel like, otherwise you’re committing a violence on yourSelf.
In the end is funeral really so sad or is it only the human (society) interpretation?
Maybe it’s a joyful ocassion! But our “material”senses (eyes, ears, …)are telling us “you don’t see the –gone– person, so he/she is not here anymore”.. aren’t they fooling us? Maybe he/she has just changed the energy form… and so if you feel happy at funeral, you might not be attached only to material things, but you might feel the joyful energy..

Anyway, starting to get lost, sorry. Very nicely-formulated article.
I wish I would be able to follow my intuition, my Heart as you call it. And it makes a perfect sense for me. BUT sometimes it’s hard to recognize what’s Heart’s calling and what’s Mind’s setting… you know, obligations, mental habits, expectations… they’ve lived with you for so long that you’re not sure anymore if the actual desire is from the depth of your soul or if it comes from life-long imprinted habit.. And you start thinking.. And here we go again, damn brain!

I.e.: I have a friend, she’s a Heart follower. To the extreme. She felt the need to move to one little faraway island somewhere in the Ocean. In a few weeks she sold her wonderful, well-situated flat and she’s leaving. It sounds TOO CRAZY also for me, but the truth is that since she has decided that she wanted to follow her intuition, the World has worked out everything for her. Everything. I admire her somehow. She doesn’t know why she’s doing that and what’s gonna come, but she’s happy.
Anyway.

We, people (in general) are too afraid, too knotted, too focused on what people might say.. Too trapped in our little secure realities. To follow intuition requires a HUGE amount of courage. And you also have to risk. I think we are too coward.

So, how are your experiments going?