Macrobiotic Life

As I see the things today, as my understanding tells me….

The humanity’s problem is not solvable by doing anything, just the opposite. The well known wu-wei, not doing.

An ancient Zen teacher said, “The Way is always with people, but people themselves chase after things.”
He addressed their chase after Enlightenment, but the same is true for anything else. The constant chase for tasks to do, things to posses, places to see, superficial entertainments to enjoy and even when we think are have enough, we want to finally help the world, do something good, we start to chase “good doing” things, helping the world, to people, animals, nature and so on. The mind is still wanting more and more of anything.

From an energetic point of view, it can be visualized like this: our world is spiraling within two main forces, two opposite energies and the bigger is one side, the bigger is another – this is again the well known taoistic (and other teaching’s) principle. The point here is to understand what the real wu-wei does mean. It can’t be grasped directly by our minds as non-doing, doing of nothing, because what would it look like in the end? Lying, sitting? Can you breath, eat? The logic is, the non-doing does mean that you surrender yourself to the world of Unknown, starting with the mind. Just letting the mind function without our grasping (which is the doing) of thoughts. In this wu-wei state of mind, she (I just see the mind as her) becomes spontaneous, clear, mindfull, present, loving, compassionate, because these are her born states.

Duality is still unwinding, even with this mind, but we are not making mess in these energy waves. They just naturally flow, according to the rules of the Universe (of the God or many other names for this). The point is – if we are Doing, grasping thoughts, this is causing so called karma (action/reaction) and whatever we decide to do in this state of mind is immediately creating the opposite energy somewhere else. For example, if I decide to do a revolution, or help the children in Africa, or donate to some organization, if I do any of this because of the thought process consisting of many of my personal beliefs, ideologies, then this all is causing false solutions, and it leads immediately to creating the same problems as I am trying to solve. Because I can’t solve anything with the mind full of false beliefs, with living in my personal belief illusion. Only after dropping all beliefs, all comparisons, especially belief in my individuality, in myself, then the mind is starting to become present, to just simply see and only from this state is sprouting the real action, which is actually no-action, wu-wei, because there’s no-one who is the Doer, because you loose your sense of Ego – Ego is just another false belief, another thought process.

To achieve this original state of mind is possible by simply letting things go, dropping all, without any effort, just simply watching, observing, in other word – meditating. But be aware, there are much more techniques which are not the meditation as the gurus intended, but they are only a psychological methods for happier life – they are serving you with the happier face of the duality and sometimes they work so well, that you are satisfied with them for a long time – but the real meditation is about pure watching, pure acceptance, not about seeking the pleasant feelings – there’s pain and pleasure, so be it.

From the book – Buddhism is not what you think – by Steve Hagen (great book btw):

In every moment we step into a new situation. Usually we have a plan or agenda for it. It’s not wrong to have a plan, but it’s far more urgent that we keep our eyes open in each moment and see what’s happening now. And sometimes, since nothing’s standing still, our plan may become a hindrance, especially if we’re attached to it. And if we’re not paying attention to what’s actually going on, we ’ll not see all the possibilities
that constantly unfold.

To act or not act is not the real question. For the awakened, what comes first is simply being awake—seeing what’s going on. And in seeing what’s going on in this moment, appropriate— that is, natural—action can occur.

Kuei-shan said, “Why interfere?” When we act out of seeing, we are no longer interfering with the world; instead, we are operating the way the natural world operates—out of the Whole, out of Totality.

For the awakened the primary concern is simply to see what is taking place and to act in accord with it.

This is how the awakened differ from those of us who are caught up in delusion. It’s a very subtle, quiet, and gentle point, but its implications are total. Realizing this creates a complete transformation of heart and mind.

Enlightenment is nothing more than this: to be fully present, to see the grasping nature of our own minds, and not to act out of that grasping. It’s to see ourselves not as separate, not as
lacking, not as in charge, not as weak and helpless.

And Osho:

If you are meditating for something, then you are concentrating, not meditating. Then you are still in the world – your mind is still interested in cheap things, in trivia. Then you are worldly. Even if you are meditating to attain to God, you are worldly. Even if you are meditating to attain to nirvana, you are worldly – because meditation has no goal. Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don’t lead anywhere.

This is my reaction to the Rosine’s article – How to Solve the Problems in the World:

Even when I will start to express my objections now, it doesn’t mean, that I don’t like the article, it’s very beautiful one and with many things I concur.

Right, at the start, it reminded me of my writing – Whatever is happening is right and perfect

Now, my few objections:

1. What does perfect harmony means in practice? For me, it’s stillness, no action, no reaction, no happiness, no hate, even no love, just nothing.
So, we need to be disbalanced a little? I think so.

2. What is actually positive thing? When you immerse enough in the substance of each phenomena, I am afraid you can see no positive/negative. And each action is combination of many thousands phenomenons, each action is a mix of them and each action has reaction, cause and effect. And when you trace the effects of each individual action, you realise, there’s never pure positive or pure negative effect. It’s a big dilema for any life decision I think. Things are not always black/white.

3. The more abstract the words are, the more disturbance people created in their explanations/understanding. But the more they pretend, they are sure of them. I am talking about love, peace, friendship etc. Ask anyone about definition of the love and you’ll get thousand answers.

4. About the negative words. What’s more important, inner being/feeling or the outer expressions? I am not waiting ultimate answer, just giving another look, how it is actually all interconnected and hard to decide what is right/wrong.

5. The same for food. Christians will tell you, really deep from their hearts, with big love (as they would describe it), that the meat eating is perfectly in congruence with the God’s rules, hence with Love. Eating something and checking how I feel inside is quite misleading, people can really feel big loving satisfaction with many “unhealthy” things.

I am not trying to make you create arguments against me, I am not creating arguments also. I am just philosophying about the Universe and people. About complications that I face daily. About constantly arising utopian versions of how to save the world, all based on the lesser understanding of the bigger Unified Laws. The more I study and learn, the more I am inclined to the taoism, to understanding that things need to oscillate, they can’t be in harmony and that world is full of paradoxes and one of them is, that even the horrible things are needed, to World be the perfect place for our learning purposes – big school. If there would be harmony, we would be reincarnated somewhere else, where the disharmony dominates. But maybe this is our purpose? To repair one world after another? The last sentences are not meant too seriously

Thanks for the nice article!
I am definitely with you in the thinking process of “why don’t we join finally?”
But ideally, I am for the real-life joining – in time and space – real, physical community, but this is very big challenge for all of us. I think we are not ready to undergo this challenge successfully, until the outer conditions will not press us a little bit harder.

If a man has been saved once by Oriental medicine, he has no possibility of falling ill again in his lifetime. Otherwise, he has not been truly cured, or he has not grasped the essence of the medical practice. If he becomes ill several times again, he is not worth curing, he must be allowed to suffer that he might learn the law. That is only way to bring him to true salvation and to consolidate the happiness of all of humanity.

One must concentrate the physical constitution, the ground, the inner environment so soundly that the factors of disease cannot penetrate into it or are no longer active in it. This is the perfect physiological synthesis which all the animals and all the birds possess, instinctively. Let us not confuse this with preventive medicine, which is but another analytical science. The perfect medicine, the Ido, is the medical application of all the In’Yological (yin/yang) understanding of the entire universe.

Le Principe Unique de la Philosophie
et de la Science d’Extreme-Orient
by Georges Ohsawa

It has been three days since I started watching these totaly awesome videos!
And it changed my last days completely.
Opened me eyes – really big.
Gave me a LOT of informations to think about.
Kicked me right in the butt and made me deeply think – to rethink many of my old beliefs.
I like when this happens to me.
The more you know, the harder it is to be influenced in this way.
To have this brilliant feeling of “aha” moment.
To find a new belief model, idea that you can implement into your old beliefs.
But the biggest experience is waiting at the doors of “no belief systems at all”.
The doors of “throw all belief systems away”.
The real religion begins right at the next doors, that are very very close and their title is “throw away your religions too”.
Belief nothing, because belief is the mind concept.
You are not your mind.
You are much bigger.
All is just an illusion.
Matrix is everywhere, Neo

Am I on a drug? Am I totaly manipulated by the dark side? Hehe.
What I am talking about?

This is IT – David Icke – Melbourne 2009 – 46 videos – 8 hours of pure enlightening informations!

I have seen Zeitgeist, I have seen Esoteric Agenda, I have seen many movies and videos over the internet.
But this huge video set is much more important for me.

It’s no about believing it all. It’s not about watching without thinking.
Watch it, ponder on it, experiment with it and get inspired with it to some action.
Any action is better than no action! If you are not taoist monk, who leaves all work to Nature

I am joking with this post a little.
I am really into this stuff now.
Because I am after 3 days of watching this whole set.
But it has a huge impact on me, on my thinking.
It helps me to connect a lot of life puzzle again.
And David is a good dualistic thinker, I have found many informations for my yin/yang thinking – they are everywhere and if you think in yin/yang terms, it can simplify and help you understand a lot of theories much deeper.

Ken connects yin/yang perfectly for me. He is great Taoist thinker. It will enhance your knowledge about the (non)dualistic world how the macrobiotic also perceives it.

Ken Wilber is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books translated into some 30 foreign languages, and is the first philosopher-psychologist to have his Collected Works published while still alive. Wilber is an internationally acknowledged leader and the preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development, which continues to gather momentum around the world. His many books, all of which are still in print, can be found at Amazon.com. Some of his more popular books include Integral Spirituality; No Boundary; Grace and Grit; Sex, Ecology, Spirituality; and the “everything” books: A Brief History of Everything (one of his largest selling books) and A Theory of Everything (probably the shortest introduction to his work). Ken Wilber is the founder of Integral Institute, Inc., the co-founder of Integral Life, Inc., and the Senior Fellow of Integral Life Spiritual Center.

Read many of his awesome articles here (if they have FREE icon, you can read them without subscribing).
Check out his personal website too.

And I would suggest, to get better know his style, start reading this article – Always Already: The Brilliant Clarity of Ever-Present Awareness.

On another topic, if you have serious illness (cancer), we you are faced with death (and who isn’t), definitely check out this book of him!! It’s completely life changing book and it will leave you fearless and accepting all the life can offer, even the death.

Many interviews with Ken and his deep knowledge at Shambala.com.

I would like to try to log my daily eating habits and some personal observations from my days.
These logs will be maybe a little chaotic for you. For this I am very sorry, but I will risk it, maybe somebody will still find some value in them. At least I would like to read some eating logs of other macrobiotic friends, so I could see, how is their eating regime structured and to see that I am not the only one, who has a lot of cravings (sweet for me) and is overeating and not eating straight macrobiotic diet at all (which is nearly impossible – we are just humans).
I am also for the grammar/typing mistakes, English is really not my native language. I am also using my food version names, if you become really interested what did I really mean, just ask in the comments. Well, I start with the day log now.

7:10 getting up
10:15 – 10:50 pressure cooked rice with red lentils (from yesterday); deep-fry broccoli+carrot (in water)

12:30 – 13:00 rice+lentils again; fresh miso porridge – turnip cabbage (with green leafs), onion, wakame, miso, wheat
flakes, sunflower oil = dense porridge

14:30 – 16:00 dense miso porridge again; freshly cooked adzuki with barley malt and mixed
18:15 – 20:30 overeating, at the end lot of yin (barley malt, oat milk dry); i began with fresh pastas + water deep fried
broccoli + ume vinegar with water; continued with pastas + oat milk (dry) – overeaten a lot; then finished the adzuki +
barley malt (so it means I have eaten 500 ml of the adzuki today); then eaten simple barley malt (1/4 of the jar); then
drinked kuzu + shoyu drink

I was watching samurai movie – Sword of Doom (highly recommend, one of the best samurai movies ever) – while eating
Today I have learned/watched some chi kung videos – I have learned and practiced Wuji Swimming Dragon
Also watched the Wudang Kungu 5 part document at youtube. It’s a beautiful document full of taoist inspiration, 103 year old women that practice taichi 3 hours a day and have really long nails, 10 year old girl with a bear and a sword in their hands and masters that are going for immortality it left me with a strong fascination to learn more of the tai chi, chi kung, kungfu, for the chi energy reasons, not for the physical fighting; if I would know any temple where I can stay for free and eat macrobioticaly and train, I would pack my things and rush there Please let me know if any exist.