Macrobiotic Life

I have find out about Peace Pilgrim today. Some thoughts from the website:

I have walked 25,000 miles as a penniless pilgrim. I own only what I wear and what I carry in my small pockets. I belong to no organization. I have said that I will walk until given shelter and fast until given food, remaining a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace. And I can truthfully tell you that without ever asking for anything, I have been supplied with everything needed for my journey, which shows you how good people really are.

1. Purification of the bodily temple.
Are you free from all bad habits? In your diet do you stress the vital foods – the fruits, whole grains, vegetables and nuts? Do you get to bed early and get enough sleep? Do you get plenty of fresh air, sunshine, exercise, and contact with nature? If you can answer “Yes” to all of these questions, you have gone a long way toward purification of the bodily temple.

I know enough about food to nourish my body properly, and I have excellent health. I enjoy food, but I eat to live. I do not live to eat, and I know when to stop eating. I am not enslaved by food.

Steps Toward Inner Peace by Peace Pilgrim

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As I put on my simple clothing one day after a swim in a clear mountain lake I thought of those who have closets full of clothes to take care of, and who carry heavy luggage with them when they travel. I wondered how people would want to so burden themselves, and I felt wonderfully free. This is me and all my possessions. Think of how free I am! If I want to travel, I just stand up and walk away. There is nothing to tie me down.

One outfit of clothing is enough. That’s all I’ve owned since my pilgrimage started in 1953. And I take good care of my things. I can always find a wash basin in a public restroom or a nearby stream to wash my clothes, and drying them is even easier: I just put them on and let the energy from the sun evaporate any dampness.

Living the Simple Life

7:00 get up
9:00 – 9:15 stretching
9:15 – 9:45 freshly pressure cooked 50% rice + 50% emmer grain, boiled carrot and parsley, chewed 50-100x, proper sitting with straight spine (you can feel the full stomach much quicker in the straight position, when sitting hunched you will usually overeat, but the straight spine has many other positive effects ofcourse)
11:50 – 12:30 the same
4km bike trip to the forest, bare foot training chi kung and eye stretching (Bate’s method)
15:15 – 16:15 same grains, boiled cabbage with miso and wild plants (herbs)
17:45 small cup of freshly cooked red beans with kombu (1 hour 40 mins – soaked overnight)
19:25 – 21:00 same grains; boiled carrot; oil fried bread with 3 day pickles + shoyu + little water; white flour pastas + barley malt; almonds + barley malt; kuzu+shoyu drink to compensate my yin overtake

Listening to a new music (to me) The Bouncing Souls – very speedy funny style. I am dancing all over the flat till midnight I have also started to get interested in the natural house building processes. I want to learn some techniques how to build simple cheape houses. I am very interested in the traditional Japanese building techniques, but it will be really hard to get to know someone who can really make old tatamis and old Japanese houses. But after watching samurai DVD series I fell in love with their houses simplicity and effectivity. I have also read, that Tatami does smell very nicely, because it’s made from the rice straw – imagine sleeping in the straw and the beatiful smell. I am thinking about trying to make my own tatami from the writings I have read about it. It will be just for fun, at least the smell of fresh strow will be there
I got also offer to live or spend some time in the Russia beginning alternative village (according to the Anastasia dreams). There are people of Czechs, Russia and Srbia and their main aim is Love in the Nature – what could be better. Yeah, one thing is missing from our macrobiotic view – they are mostly vegetarians, but still eating sugar and other more extreme yin/yang energies. They would be much more connected with the Nature line if implementing macrobiotic lifestyle (eating habits). I the past I was finding big problems with living in such a community where people are not eating macrobiotics. But the more I chew and more I am humble, I can imagine living anywhere, as long as I could cook my macrobiotic meal there and be happy with some small personal space (house).
I am on the crossroads in my Life now. I have many great options what to do and where to move now. One is the Russia village, another is Holland Kushi Institute, another is macrobiotic community in the sounce France and another new one is to work as a Security man in the UK. The last one is not spiritual, it’s just simple money making opportunity. The job is very easy, good for meditative people, because all you do is walk and watch at some places like supermarkets, construction places etc. And the earning is nice for this simple job – it’s 6 pounds per hour. The living costs there would be 200 – 400. So with the 10 hour shift, the real net income would be from 800 – 1000, which is quite nice if you consider the type of the job. I feel I will need money in the future to start my living in the nature, to build my simple cheap house (cob, wood, bamboo – i don’t know yet) and to buy the land place, or I can use our land that my mother inherited, but I don’t see it as the perfect dream place, it would be the last option. I don’t need too much money for the house, I imagine maximum of $35.000 to get me builded nice low energy natural house. But still I need these money at least. I am not sure which path to choose now, but I feel I don’t need the money now and I will concentrate on experiences and money will come somehow later. My new dream, growing inside me and completely strange to my computer professional life is to be “Natural House builder”. To learn some techniques (my dream one is Traditional Japanese Houses) and to get better and better, to study, to travel and learn from other people and work hard in the sunny nature, not inside some building while sitting before computer. It’s my BIG dream now. I am more moving from the computer and closed buildings to the outside Nature beautiful world and feeling very happy there, something I have never felt before. It all began with my intensive rice chewing and humble asking the Nature for my new life direction. And since then (3 months before), I started to really live and my life changed by a big amount – complete 180 degree turn for somebody who was used to sit before computer and earn money with building spammy SEO sites.
Thank you mother Nature for everything