The Goal of Macrobiotics
A Macrobiotic Lesson
By Roy Littlesun
IGNORANCE is the root-cause of disease. So, for Macrobiotics to cure any disease…it must first of all cure our own ignorance. George Ohsawa named his school Ignoramus. He went into the extremes to find out how to cure himself, in order to provide information that can complement the cure we seek. Any problem can only be solved by the one who created it. So, it would be arrogance to tell any one how to cure ones ignorance. We have to be Self-realised (enlightened, attained Godhood) first to Know what another actually needs for the cure. Even then, Free Will has to be honoured for one to make the CHOICE. In other words, an ignorant person cannot tell another ignorant person that he/she is ignorant. George Ohsawa concluded that arrogance is the worst disease. When we make “mistakes”…we do it to find out how ignorant we are. Only then, can we Heal (Health means Whole) our self…for the self or non-existent ego to surrender to the Self. The GOAL of Macrobiotics is Self-realisation and everything else is “interesting”. The first step for Knowing ourselves is the Chewing of Food. From thereon we can gradually Know the Self, by basically making the Nine Cosmic Steps.
The Teachings of Macrobiotics are timely, for it correlates with the distilling of an over four billion year evolution in one lifetime. Cancer became one of its main topics, because also the most primitive stage, that we cannot do without, has to be brought forth on the present Human scale. As the primitive cell (virus, bacteria) has come to “know” where it eventually will arrive…also a new basis is set for the Human to use its potential to infinitely grow into Great Mystery (identified as “Nothing” from the deductive mindset). From chaos comes order. Springtime is next. Therefore each detail that our Memory comprises must be present for the Return to the Oneness, to form the Seed that must give continuation in the form of the Tree. The Human being is the “Cosmic Ark of Noah”! ALL IS ONE, regardless whether we see the parts separate from each other. The template of Creation applies to everything and everyone and the Self Knows it, but do we know the Self? When we do, any form of cancer or disease cannot befall us.
Any growth goes through cycles or seasons. Our growth cannot be void of the unique personal experience, that we need to complete a cycle of Consciousness. It is by the experience that the Unknown becomes Known…and it is by the Known that we in turn can continue with the exploration into the Unknown, etc. So, even when cancer is part of the experience…do not despair…BE. IT IS! What enables us to experience, including “cancer” is the eternal-Self (who is already truly Macrobiotic), who allows the ignorant “me” to identify itself with the body and mind until it comes to its “dead-end”. This is where death is good for, to get a new perspective and chance to realise that “poor me” does NOT exist! APPRECIATE the experience, it is a Lesson by which the Self can profit from. So, don’t be stingy by refusing to be vulnerable. The distance between birth and death is actually the widening of the PORTAL of the Now, so that we can increase the “breakthrough” with “all our might”. In other words, overcome any Limit that’s caused by division. Use the Limit as the Stepping-stone.
It is by the Infinite TEST that we will come to Know Who is waiting for us within the largest possible context, in which we eventually become Conscious of the Self. Just as the primitive cell has been patient, waiting for the Human to get “cancer”…our “higher SELF” is as much eager to welcome us on a higher plane, with the realisation that we are a Cell of Creator’s Body! So, how can the Creator have cancer! Only with the “my-consciousness” can we separate from our true being and as such create our “own cancer” in order to eradicate our stuckness. This falling apart of universal exclusivity will not only befall the individual. Civilizations crashed, because they were mistaken for the “Kingdom of Heaven on Earth”. The US is now going through a similar process, from where the chance is given for anyone to make the Choice to BE.
What gets us overcome cancer without getting stuck in cancer is CHANGE. At any moment we die and are born, old cells are immediately replaced with new cells. The whole process is simultaneously captured within our body (microcosm of Creation). The primitive cells within the small-intestine and the most advanced cells of the brain are One by the Infinite Constant Change. However, when we get stuck by overly pointing out “cancer”…we become fixed in ”cancer”, possibly manifesting physically too (read AIDS and the inter-cellular effect)…because we go against Change. Change is The Law, by which Justice prevails. If The Law requires us to have “cancer”, it is for a good reason. Don’t “fight cancer”. It is our FRIEND, letting us see who The Enemy is!
Change finds its origin by finite/infinite, by the Perception of the One as Two. As such beginning and end enables us to have an experience (“expiration”) in space and time. So, the greater the “delayed perception” is of the “here and now”, the more we Forget who we are as a “One-Being” or eternal-Self…within a “hologram” that’s created by the Mind. Consequently beginning and end can Mirror each other to give a greater perspective of the “in-between”. In other words, the “in-between” is the context of the circle that upon contraction becomes the centre. The “without” (circle) is realised by the “within” (centre) and vice versa. Here is where the true cure of cancer and any other disease lies. Both extremes secure the circulation (change) where the “tumour” (stagnation) has no chance to develop. The circle is the expanded centre and the centre is the contracted circle. ALL IS ONE.
Cancer is not necessarily of a “clinical” nature, although it can obscure the root-cause! “cancer” exists in the stagnant outer, due to lacking the Memory that All is One. On the physical level, having lost connection with the centre, complex cells decompose into simple cells (go back in time), because the nucleus where the Memory of One is contained has become “distracted’ with the conflicting external affairs. This principle also applies to the cancer of the mind, when one becomes pre-occupied with dividing the world in “right’ and “wrong”. The book Cancer by Mr. Muramoto revealed this, when George Ohsawa exposed Dr. Albert Scheitzer’s Cancer by going through a voluntary experience of hell by choice.
It is all about Self-realisation, the Goal of life. Each one of us has therefore a unique cosmic journey, to bring forth the only ONE from Within. For this reason we must practice Unconditional Love, the supreme Macrobiotic Medicine, for it interconnects the ALL (= Macro). So, whether we pressure-cook our food or not or “play it safe” in some way, when an “experience” is needed to complete ones cycle…any concept of what is “correct or incorrect” will be overruled when it does NOT serve the realisation of the Self. Considering our entire past, our “present life” offers the OPPORTUNITY to catch up with “unfinished business” unto times immemorial. So, Unconditional Love, also known as Appreciation, makes Whole (= Health) within the full-spectrum of Being.
Cancer and any form of discomfort or suffering is but a stepping-stone towards the Self-realisation (it was said that difficulty is the shortest way to heaven). To make that Step requires us to have the Courage to be VULNERABLE to Truth. If that step results in a “setback” then this is the chance to rectify an “oversight”. The more powerful and far-reaching the next step then! So, on the “kindergarten” level Macrobiotics is practised on the “right/wrong” level. We have been “macrobiotic” since ages! Now we must make the “Macrobiotic-quantum-leap”! We can then restore our unique intuitive Knowing. From thereon we can proceed towards the “World Beyond”, Yin/Yang seen as One (seed) instead of Yin/Yang seen as Two (tree). The truth is that the seed is in the tree and the tree is in the seed. This is the formula of Freedom, that we can fully embrace with the Choice to BE.
The following experience gave me an inkling of how Truth, the Unexpected, can turn up at the moment when the condition is just right for making the choice to BE. This Moment of Truth shows up differently for each one of us. We can be sure of…the greater the expectation and the certainty that we are “right” over another “wrong”…the greater the SURPRISE at the end! Cancer is the state of chaos (= “substantiated-Nothing/Void/Source” from where Order can rise. Chaos is created by anti-change. Chaos gives the opportunity to change from the level where Creation began. That’s pretty close to the Creator. So, “cancer/chaos” gives opportunity for “self-examination”. This approach towards finding the truth that will set us FREE is superior above “hope” and “fingering” into the outer. The Superior ONE is Within and “cancer” is sometimes needed to peel off the last layer of the “Cosmic Onion”.
The TEST
The man was in the hospital, dying of stomach-cancer. He asked his wife to contact me and find out if I could possibly see him at the ward, where he was hooked on a “life-support” system.
I came and saw that the only thing that “Macrobiotics” could do, is to facilitate the TEST. The man had stomach-cancer seven years before. The symptoms disappeared with the “macrobiotic-diet”. Since then he became “confident” and began to eat more “freely”. Then, suddenly the cancer came back and the “macrobiotic-diet” could not do the same.
Isn’t this in a “nutshell” the story of the many lives we went through. What is the difference….deaths between different episodes of failing tests….or “seven years” between two episodes of cancer in one life-time? So…what needs to be cured is Ignorance! This I understood what I came for… Being ignorant myself, what can I possibly do? Just DO IT. That’s what brought us this far in space and time, to carry forth the evidence that life is eternal, by doing the best we can. The Doing is our greatest Certainty. The difference is the distance between birth and death, due by not mastering life from WITHIN, where the Master is, in the Now. Death is merely the end-result of Ignorance, by not Knowing the “I AM”. Death and Ignorance are the same. We die because we ignore our eternal Self.
Another Test was unfolding here… I did my best by explaining the “bigger picture of macrobiotics”. At the end the man said, “ call the nurse”. When the nurse came and asked what she could do…the man said, “nurse please remove the “life-support system from my body”. The nurse protested, but the man insisted and said he would do it himself without her help. The nurse gave in.
The man’s eyes became focussed and bright. He thanked for the visit and I asked myself if I did the right thing. The next morning the man’s wife called me…“he died with a smile and shortly before...told me to let you know that he is thankful for what you did”.
………euthanasia…suicide……? It deserves a true Macrobiotic Perspective (8th level of judgment. Read The Nine Cosmic Gates). Now, about twenty five years later, I see the correlation between this case and an experience my friend Izolde had with her two year old baby-girl. She was breast-feeding her baby and suddenly the child stopped and looked her mother straight into the eyes…and said with a clear voice “God made Himself”…!
The Creator made us and only He can decide about our life. So, does this mean that we cannot decide about anything and thus must be like a robot? Even so, who in the world must then be responsible to care for this object without Will? Is having Free Will just non-sense? Are the senses by which we can discern non-sense? To be able to reason as such gives license to question…“ WHO AM I”? EXACTLY! This very Question enabled us to enter Great Mystery. The Creative Force, released to make the One Two, has led to the creation of the Mirror to See ourselves within the LIGHT that comes from ”within”. This “Within” we temporarily experience as the Outer, by which we can sense and discern, giving us the illusion that we are the Two. But then…when the Mirror that we chose to create, to see a certain aspect (possibility) of Great Mystery…we must be DIS-illusioned, so that the “within” can be WITHIN! Here is where “Job’s Test” comes in. At the height of our “glory” we must face the End of the Mirror’s purpose, to See from Creator’s point of view…to See Oneness. All the perspectives based on “mine and yours, right and wrong” must at the end make place for Creator’s observation…Who is WITHIN! At this point the “without” collapses. This is the DIS-illusion, to let us See Who is the Master. To See and Know as such, this is Self-realisation. So, Macrobiotics has two sides. One side is that of the “mirror”, where we apply its principles by some ones “textbook-knowledge”. The other side has no “sides” It comes from the ONLY-ONE-WITHIN! The last step for “becoming Macrobiotic” is by the Courage to BE and goes along with transcending the conditions which we created ourselves. All masters have been downplayed by the ignorant, because the ignorant without courage is like an orphan who cannot stand on its own ground. As such lynch-mobs are created. All wars became possible by those who refused to be Self-realised. Even the “macrobiotic circle” is not void of this Cancer!. This is “Job’s Test”. When everything goes “well” according to the “norms” we are “in”. When things go “wrong” according to the “norms” we are “out”. The Self doesn’t care about the “norms”, because IT IS.
Realising that the man’s body was a part of Creator’s Body, this “tiny cell” made the Choice to hook on to Creator’s system of eternal life. Not until we in turn become food for Creator’s Body, “macrobiotic food” can just as much set us up for the Test as any other “diet”! What must be cured is IGNORANCE. Therefore George Ohsawa named his school “Ignoramus”.
Moreover…
To Remember who we Are implies to also REMEMBER why we came to Earth, to create the Mirror. As we have, more than ever before, the chance to create a premature axis-shift of Earth…where at best a boy and a girl can make a “new beginning” (Hopi)…what are we wallowing about, about the personal trivial concerns. “my property”, “my life”, “my cancer”, “my health” or any “my” deletes us from being Macrobiotic. The world got stuck with the too many “my’s”. Hey, let’s shift consciousness and sing George Ohsawa’s favoured song often:
“row , row, row your boat…gently down the stream…
merrily, merrily, merrily… life is but a dream!”
Then, Ohsawa’s great difinition: “Happiness is the endless realisation of an infinite Dream”. So, let’s Realise the Dream (PLAN) that brought us to Earth. This should be the MAIN issue of “Today’s Macrobiotics”. Then everything else will follow suit, because it is by Creator’s Plan and Will that we will come back to the Oneness/Macrocosm.
First Macrobiotic Advice: Stop Wallowing
What man who has clearly understood this continual death-birth cycle and the endless miseries that it brings with it, could be foolish and blind enough to cling to this earthly life or value it?
Think of the millions of years that you have eaten, drunk and slept, enjoyed sensual pleasures and consequent misery. Should you still wallow in delusion?
Think of the thousands of births you have had and the thousands of parents , wives, husbands and children that you have had in those births. Should you still wallow in delusion?
Think of the desires gratified and thus strengthened, the ambitions fulfilled, the houses built, money made and property acquired, and think of all these have been razed to the earth by the ravages of time ... the millions of millennia that this universe has existed, Should you still wallow in delusion?
Think of the insignificance of a short span of active life in comparison to the millions of years that constitute a Day of the Creator. What can you still do during this short span from transmigration forever. Should you still wallow in delusion?
Gurudev
Stop wallowing and pay attention to our own Unique Role that no one but ourselves can fulfil. The best thing we can do is to be an example, by our diligent dedication to become Conscious that the ONEHEART is our Centre.
The illusory ego tries to make us believe that we can be superior by the degrading of another. The contrary is true, with the understanding that ALL IS ONE Whose Centre is Within. Until we discover our true Self we continually set ourselves up for the rebirth where the "not to BE" is instrumental to Awaken us by way of Suffering!
Think of the significance of this life-span as it still can be used as the Stepping-stone for the Self to Know the Self by, of, for and within the Self. At any moment the chance to attain this FREEDOM, with the Self-realisation, can END. Glorify the Now with the Creative Act!
Unconditional Love
by a Hopi
You are unique - different from all others. Without reservation or hesitation, I allow you to be in the world as you are without a thought or word of judgement from me. I see no error in the things you may say and do, feel and believe since I understand that you are honouring yourself by being and doing what is true to you. I cannot walk life through your eyes nor see it through your heart. I have not been where you have been and experienced what you have experienced, viewing life from your unique angle.
I appreciate you exactly as you are, being your own unique spark of the Infinite consciousness, seeking to find your own individual way to relate to the world. Without reservation or hesitation, I allow you every choice to learn in the way you feel is right for you. It is vital that you be your own person and not someone that I or others think you 'should' be. To the best of my ability, without denigrating or compromising myself in any way, and I will support you in that.
I cannot know what is for your highest good, what is true for you or what you need since I do not know what you have chosen to learn, how you have chosen to learn it, with whom or in what time period. Only you can feel your inner excitement and hear your inner voice - I only have my own.
I acknowledge that, though they may be different to each other, the many ways To perceive and experience the various facets of our world are all valid. Without reservation or hesitation, I allow the choices you make in each moment. I make no judgement of this for it is imperative that I honour your right to your individual evolution, because it empowers that right for myself and all others.
To those who would choose a way I cannot or would not walk, whilst I may not choose to add my power and my energy to that way, I will never deny you the gift of love that God has bestowed within me, for all creation. As I love you, so shall I be loved. As I sow, so shall I reap.
Without reservation or hesitation, I allow you the universal right of free will to walk your own path, creating steps or sitting still if and when you feel it is right for you. I cannot always see the higher picture of Divine Order and so I will make no judgement that your steps are large or small, nor light or heavy or that they lead up or down, for that would just be my viewpoint. Though I may see you do nothing and judge it to be unworthy, I acknowledge that you may be the one who brings great healing as you stand calm, blessed by the Light of God.
For it is the inalienable right of all life to choose their own evolution, and without reservation or hesitation I acknowledge your right to determine your own future. In humility, I bow to the realisation that the way I see as best for me does not have to mean that it is also right for you, that what I believe is not necessarily true for you. I know that you are led as I am, following your inner excitement to know your own path.
I know that the many races, religions, customs, nationalities and beliefs within our world bring us great richness and allow us the benefits and teachings of such diverseness. I know we each learn in our own unique way in order to bring that love and wisdom back to the whole. I understand that if there were only one way to do something, there would need only be one person.
I will appreciate your unique inner light whether or not you behave in a way I think you should or believe in those things I believe in. I understand you are truly my brother and my sister, though you may have been born in a different place and believe in different ideals.
The love I feel is for absolutely all that is. I know that every living thing Is a part of one consciousness and I feel a love deep within for every person, animal, tree, stone and flower, every bird, river and ocean and for all that is in all the world.
I live my life in loving service, being the best me I can, becoming wiser in The perfection of Divine Truth, becoming happier, healthier and increasingly abundant and joyous.
Though along the way I may like you, feel indifferent towards you, or dislike you, I will not stop loving you - honouring your uniqueness and allowing you to be you. That is the key to peace and harmony in our lives and around our Earth since it is the capstone of Unconditional Love.
