Why “Macrobiotics”? (regardless where the name began). The “Yin/Yang” answer is within the formula of “the tree is in the seed and the seed is in the tree”. As long as the answer is given from either the “tree side” or the “seed side”, we still have not fully attained the “Macrorama View”. The saying is that one “can not see the tree from the forest”, when looking at the forest from a DISTANCE. By reducing the distance we loose the perception of the forest. By being in the forest we may want to loose ourselves in the outer. This is the case of most humans who today identify themselves with the outer (opinion, favours, looks, passport, social security number, driver’s licence, etc. So….within the cosmic scale the “diagnosis” of ones condition gets a different picture.

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.