Macrobiotic Principles

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Ohsawas Seven Stages Of Judgment Stages Learning Love Profession EatingandDrinking

1. Physical Instinctive or Instinctive, appetite, One who sells ones life Guided only by hunger or thirst

or Mechanical unconscious hunger (working slave, salariedreexes employee)

2. Sensorial Dance, gymnastics, Erotic, seeking physical Wholesaler of pleasure: Gourmand (greedy eater)conditioned comfort and sensual actor, merchant,reexes pleasure novelist, prostitute

3. Sentimental Literature Emotionally universal Wholesaler of emotions Gourmet (connoisseur)

4. Intellectual Science, arts Understanding, scientic, Wholesaler of knowledge Eating according to a theorysystematic, calculating and techniques of nutrition

5. Social Economy, Social Organizer Conformistlike everyone

morality else

6. Ideological Philosophy, Spiritual Thinker, originator of Follows dietetic or religiousreligion, dialectics theories principle

7. Supreme, Self-realization, All-embracing Happy person, fullls all Eats and drinks anything with

Innite illumination, tao dreams throughout life great pleasuresatori

Excerpted and adapted from George OhsawasEssential Ohsawa by Carl Ferr; www.ohsawamacrobiotics.com.

Ohsawas Order of the Universe StagesofLife Orbit Beginningof AntagonismsandComplementaries

Innite Expansion 7. Innity, God The world that has no There is no specialization: all analytical, mechanical, and statisticalOneness beginning or end science is invalid in the innite world.

Inorganic World 6. Polarization The foundation of the The polarization of the Innite into yin (expansion) and yang

relative world (contraction)the origin of magnetism.

5. Vibration The production of energy Visible and invisible radiation, hot and cold rays, dynamic andand origin of electricity stimulating rays (yellow, orange, red) and static and calming rays

(green, blue, indigo, violet), infrared and ultra-violet radiation.

4. Pre-atomic Electrons, protons, and all Centrifugal and centripetal force, solid and gaseous.particles sub-atomic particles

3. Elements Atoms, stars, and millions Mountain and river, land and sea, air and earth, polar and tropicalof solar systems regions, hot and cold, day and night, surface and center of Earth.

Organic World 2. Vegetable Viruses, bacteria, and Grass and tree, trunk and branch, branch and leaf, ower and seed

all plants (or fruit), cell and organ, germ and soma cells.

1. Animal All animals, including White and red corpuscles, bone and esh, man and woman,human beings governors and governed, worker and capitalist, work and rest, love

and hate, war and peace, sickness and health, life and death.

Excerpted and adapted from George OhsawasEssential Ohsawa by Carl Ferr; www.ohsawamacrobiotics.com.


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The Twelve Theorems ofthe Unique Principle

1. Yin-Yang are two poles which enter into

play when the innite expansion mani-fests itself at the point of bifurcation.

2. Yin-Yang are produced continually by the

transcendental expansion.

3. Yin is centrifugal. Yang is centripetal. Yin

and Yang produce energy.

4. Yin attracts Yang. Yang attracts Yin.

5. Yin and Yang combined in variable pro-

portion produce all phenomena.

6. All phenomena are ephemeral, being of

innitely complex constitutions and con-

stantly changing Yin and Yang compo-

nents. Everything is without rest.

7. Nothing is totally Yin or totally Yang,

even in the most apparently simple phe-

nomenon. Everything contains a polarity

at every stage of its composition.

8. Nothing is neutral. Yin or Yang is in

excess in every case.

9. The force of attraction is proportional

to the difference of the Yin and Yang

components.

10. Yin repels Yin and Yang repels Yang. The

repulsion is inversely proportional to the

difference of the Yin and Yang forces.

11. With time and space, Yin produces Yang,

and Yang produces Yin.

12. Every physical body is Yang at its centerand Yin toward surface.

Thetwelvetheoremsoftheuniqueprinciple

fromthe1962FrencheditionofThe Atomic

Era and the Philosophy of the Far Eastastrans-

latedbyMichaelandMariaChen.

The Seven Laws of theOrder of the Universe

1. What has a beginning has an end.

2. What has a front has a back.

3. There is nothing identical.

4. The bigger the front, the bigger

the back.

5. Every antagonism is complemen-

tary.

6. Yin and Yang are the classica-

tions of all polarization. They are

antagonistic and complementary.

7. Yin and Yang are the two arms of

One (Innite).

Thesevenlawsoftheorderoftheuniverse

fromthe1962FrencheditionofThe Atomic

Era and the Philosophy of the Far Eastas

translatedbyMichaelandMariaChen.


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Ohsawas SevenConditions of Health

1.NoFatigue: Fatigue is the real foundation of all

diseases. You can cure it without any medicine

if you understand and practice the macrobiotic

way to longevity and rejuvenation.

2.GoodAppetite: A good appetite for food and

sex is health itself. Eating the simplest food

with joy, pleasure, and deep gratitude to God the

Creator indicates a good appetite.

3.DeepandGoodSleep:If you cannot fall asleep

within three or four minutes after putting your

head on the pillow, under any circumstance, at

any time, your mind is not free from some fear.

4.GoodMemory:Memory is the single most

important factor in our lives, the foundation

of our personality, the com-pass of our being.

Without a strong memory...we are nothing but

machines.

5.GoodHumor: A man of good health is free

from anger, fear, or suffering and is cheerful

and pleasant under all circumstances. The more

difculties and enemies he has, the more happy,

brave, and enthusiastic he becomes.

6.ClarityinThinkingandDoing:Promptness

is the expression of freedom. Those who are

prompt, quick, precise, and ready to answer any

challenge or necessity are healthy... and have ...

the ability to establish order everywhere.

7.TheMoodofJustice:The mood of justice is

revealed by your tendency to live in accordance

with the natural Order of the Universe, by your

inclination to recognize yin and yang in every

phenomenon

QuotationsfromEssential Ohsawa byGeorge

Ohsawa; www.ohsawamacrobiotics.com .

Ohsawas SevenStages of Sickness

1.Fatigue: caused by a disorderly life (undisci-

plined, mean, ungrateful) or a chaotic family

or parents. The root of the disease tree is a

disordered, weak, and ungrateful life...

2.Painandsuffering: caused by low judgment

(capricious, sensorial, sentimental, conceptual,

exclusive) and psychosomatic illness. The

trunk of disease tree represents low judging

ability.

3.Chronicsymptoms:caused by an excess of yin

or yang in food (through love or hate of certain

foods), leading to headache, painful chest, diar-

rhea, vomiting, ulcer, trachoma, leukemia (all

skin and blood diseases).

4.Sympatheticotonicorvagotonicdisorders:

The sickness has ascended to the automonic

nervous system. These disorders and chronic

symptoms are the branches of the disease.

5.Organdisorders: Functional and structural

change in the organs themselves. These are the

owers of the disease.

6.Psychologicaloremotionalproblems: schizo-

phrenia, neurasthenia, hysteria, cardiac dilation,

etc.

7.Spiritualdisease: This aficts those of such

good physical constitution that they bypass the

rst six stages. They suffer unconsciously from

their arrogance and intolerance, and despite the

appearance of success are without faith, hope,

joy, or love, and their lives always end tragi-

cally. The fruits of the disease are stages 6 and

7.

AdaptedfromEssential Ohsawa byGeorge

Ohsawa; www.ohsawamacrobiotics.com .


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Macrobiotic Yin-Yang Classi-cations of Opposites

more yang more yin

contractive expansive

inward outward

re water hot cold

heaviness lightness

inner outer

active passive

drier wetter

summer winter

day night

brighter darker

descending ascending

time space

Yin and Yang of the Body

Physical condition

more yang more yin

strongpulse weakpulse

redface,pinkface yellowface,paleface

drier(lesswatery) (lessdry)wetter

smaller,shorter bigger,taller

heavier,harder,stronger lighter,softer,weaker

Emotional condition

more yang more yin

laughing,overjoyous sadness,crying

anger,complaining worry,whining

overcondence,arrogance inferiority,doubtorfear

stubborn,screaming complacency,silence

Psychological condition more yang more yin

extrovert,aggressive passive,introvert

optimist,positivethinker negativethinker,pessimist

focused spaciness

talker listener

Mental condition

more yang more yin

specicthinker universalthinker

dealingwiththepast dealingwiththefuture

materialistic spiritual

Activity

more yang more yin physical,social mental,emotional

jogging,dancing meditative,sleeping

disco,rockandrollmusic blues,religiousmusic

talking writing

Yinandyang havemeaningonly when used todescribeand

comparethings.Weneedbothyinandyangtoenjoyahappy

andhealthylife.Excerptedandadapted fromPocket Guide to

MacrobioticsbyCarlFerr;www.ohsawamacrobiotics.com.

Macrobiotic Yin-Yang Classi-cations of Food Categories

more yang more yin

seasalt sweeteners

soysauce beverages

miso dairy eggs oil

redmeat fruit

poultry nuts

saltedcheese seeds

sh beans

wholegrains seavegetables

renedgrains vegetables

less yang less yin

Yin and Yang Qualities of Food

Composition

more yang more yin

richinsodium richinpotassium

moredry(lesswatery) morewatery(lessdry)

highincomplexcarbs highinfat

Color and taste

more yang more yin

red,brown,orange,yellow white,green,blue,violet

darkershadesofcolor lightershadesofcolor

bitter,salty sweet,sour,spicy

Growth

more yang more yin

moredownwardorinward moreupwardoroutward

force force

verticalbelowground verticalaboveground

horizontalaboveground horizontalbelowground slowergrowth fastergrowth

Season and climate in the Northern Hemisphere

more yang more yin

grownmoreinwinter grownmoreinsummer

grownincolderclimates growninwarmerclimates

(growsbiggerormore (growsbiggerormore

abundantlyintheNorth) abundantlyintheSouth)

Manner of production or processing

more yang more yin

organicallygrown grownwithchemical

fertilizers

needslongercookingt ime needsshortercookingtime wholefood renedfood

Size, weight, and hardness

more yang more yin

smaller,shorter bigger,taller

heavier,harder lighter,softer

Allmacrobioticfoodchartsareusefulasgeneralguidelines.Ide-ally,individualswouldcreatetheirowncharts.


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Seven Life Principlesof Ohsawa

ActivitySimply stated, transmutation occurs

whenoneelementischangedintoanother...Intheprocess of biochemical transmutation, the most

essential ingredient is activity, the by-products of

whichareoxygenandheat.

Biological transmutationsThe process of

transmutation goes onwhenever there is life, no

matterwhatsortofdietwefollow.Byunderstand-

ing how itworks, wecan trulybethe creatorsof

ourselvesandourexistence.

Vivere parvoLivebytheprincipleofviverepar-

vo,whichmeans:bedetachedfromallthatisnotabsolutelyandimmediatelynecessary.

Quantity kills quantityEat and drinkonly the

absolute minimum, remembering that quantity

changesqualityandthatindividualneedsaredif-

ferent.

Individual responsibilityThedrivetocureonly

symptomsortohavecontrolofoneshealthwithout

acceptingresponsibilityiscomparabletothenotion

onthepartofanindividualthathecanstepinfront

ofamovingtrainandnotbestruckdown.

Mea culpaManyamanwishestobecuredby

othersorbysomemechanicaldevice,allthewhile

bypassing his own involvement and personal re-

sponsibility,thecauseofhisdisease:meaculpa...

myfault.Therecanbenocureunlesswerecognize

ourownfaults,ourownignorance,andaboveall,

theOrderof theUniversethe key toourhealth,

freedom,andjustice.

HappinessEveryoneisbornhappy.Ifanindivid-

ualdoesnotcontinuetobehappy,itishisownfault;throughignorance,hehasviolatedtheOrderofthe

Universethroughimpropereatinganddrinking.

Quotations excerpted and adapted from George

Ohsawas Essential Ohsawa byCarlFerr;www.

ohsawamacrobiotics.com.

Seven Natural Principlesof Ohsawa

Natural originSincemanisanaturalproductof

anaturalenvironment,hemustliveasclosetona-tureaspossible;tobehealthyandhappyhemust

eatnaturalfoods...thosethataretraditionallyeaten,

locallygrown,andseasonalinthatparticularloca-

tion.

AdaptabilityCivilizedmanhaslosthisdynamic

adaptability,hiskeytoinfinitefreedom.Hehasun-

knowinglyreplaceditwiththefiniteandconditional

libertythatisalsoknownassensorysatisfaction.

Natural medicineAll disease, unhappiness,

crime,andpunishmentresultfrombehaviorthatvi-olatestheOrderoftheUniverse.Thecureis,there-

fore,infinitelysimple.Merelystopviolatingthator-

derandallowNaturetodohermiraculouswork.

Principal foodOnlywholegrainsaremeantto

beusedasprincipalfoods...theyformthefounda-

tionofamacrobioticwayofeatingbecausetheyare

acombinationofbothseedandfruit,areabundant

ontheEarth,andareamosteconomical,ecologi-

cal,andnutritiousfood.

Natural therapyMytherapyisverysimple:Nat-uralfood,nomedicine,no surgery, no inactivity...

avoidanimalproteinasmuchaspossible,andcom-

pletelyavoidrenedsugar.

Natural immunityImmunity is a characteris-

ticofhealth...andwhat ishealth? Itis thenormal

conditionofalllivingbeings.Andwhatislife?...Itis

thematerializationofthe invisibleinnite...andthe

lengthyreturntripthroughdematerializationtoward

eternalspiritualization.

Shin do fu jiTheworldoflifeisgovernedbythelawofGod:Shindofuji,meaningthebodyandthe

landarenottwo(separatedordivided).


OhsawasEssential Ohsawa byCarlFerr;www.

ohsawamacrobiotics.com.


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Seven Spiritual Principlesof Ohsawa

HumilityEverything changes in business, poli-

tics,science,marriage,inalloflifethereisalwaysanewwinner...Themanofhumility,hewhohasno

fearofbeinglast,therefore,knowsacontentment

thatistheessenceofhappiness.

ThankfulnessYouwillbefreedfromdebtifyou

distributeinnitejoyfulnessandthankfulnesstoev-

eryone you meet throughout your life...TheEarth

givesbacktenthousandgrainsinreturnforeach

grainshe has received. Onegrain, ten thousand

grainsisthebiologicallawofthisworld.

FreedomThe one who is able to love all hemeets, who can establish justice where he nds

himself,andisalwayslovedbytheonesheknows,

isreallyafreeman,heishappyandhonest.

WisdomBynature,wepossessacloudlesswis-

dom,giventhatwearebornofthatinnite,absolute

world,whichisofGod.WeareallchildrenofGod

andcitizensofaninnite,absoluteworld.Forgetting

thistruthisthecloudthatcausesustobesick.

PeaceOnlythosewhoseethatthetwosidesof

allphenomena,visibleandinvisible,arefrontandbackorbeginningandendofonerealitycanem-

brace any antagonistic situation, see its comple-

mentarity,andhelpotherstodothesame,thereby

establishingpeaceandharmony.

JusticeAbsolutejusticeistheimpartiallawthat

appliestoallthatexists.ItistheOrderoftheUni-

verse, which creates, animates, and transmutes

everything...Absolutejusticeisabsolutelyimpartial,

andhewhoknowsthisisalsoimpartial.

LoveToloveistogiveandnottotakeinreturn.Thegive-and-takesystemisamereegoism,forto

giveandgivemoreistobecomeacreator...togive,

give,give isto deposit inthe unlimited bank,the

BankofInnity.


OhsawasEssential OhsawabyCarlFerr.

Seven Conceptual Principlesof Ohsawa

AdaptabilityIcannotover-emphasizethepoint

thatmacrobioticliving isnot rigidadherence toasetofrules.Themaintenanceofahealthybalance

inourdailylivesdemandsfromeachindividualan

adaptability and an awareness of the constantly

changinginuencesofmanyfactors.

NatureManinhissearchforpleasureandcom-

fortndsonlyweaknessand disease.To forsake

articialcivilizationandreturntonatureistondthe

macrobioticwayoflife.

No enemySinceweareheirstotheentireinfi-

niteuniverse(life,whichincludeslifeanddeath),weneedneverkillnotevenin self-defense. There

trulyisnoenemyanywhereintheinfiniteuniverse.

Primitive mentalityThe fundamental philoso-

phy of the non-civilized primitive peoples is very

simple:Accepteverythinggratefullyandwithoutthe

slightest protest...without such understanding, no

humanbeingcanattainawarenessofthetrueself

(oneness).

No exclusivityExclusivityisboththemostdif-

cultdiseaseintheworldtocureandtheoriginofallunhappiness.Onemustbecomethesortofperson

whocannotpossiblydislikeanyother humanbe-

ing.

GratitudeAccept everything with unlimited joy

andgratitude, evenif itbeextremelyhumiliating,

painful,orthecauseofgreatinconvenience...Main-

tainyourselfinsuchaconditionthatfrommorning

untileveningthewordsowingoutofyourmouth

reectinnitegratitude.

OnenessThemeaningofoneness[is]toexperi-encethefactthatthesoulisone,thatallthingsin

thisworldareindivisibledespitethefactthathuman

beingsareapparentlyseparate...Hereisthemean-

ingofunity...theunicationoftheentireworld.


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