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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 tropical
of 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, flower and seed
all plants (or fruit), cell and organ, germ and soma cells.
1. Animal All animals, including White and red corpuscles, bone and flesh, 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 Ohsawa’s Essential Ohsawa by Carl Ferré; www.ohsawamacrobiotics.com.
2. Sensorial Dance, gymnastics, Erotic, seeking physical Wholesaler of pleasure: Gourmand (greedy eater)
conditioned comfort and sensual actor, merchant,
reflexes pleasure novelist, prostitute
4. Intellectual Science, arts Understanding, scientific, Wholesaler of knowledge Eating according to a theory
systematic, calculating and techniques of nutrition
Excerpted and adapted from George Ohsawa’s Essential Ohsawa by Carl Ferré; www.ohsawamacrobiotics.com.
The twelve theorems of the unique principle The seven laws of the order of the universe
from the 1962 French edition of The Atomic from the 1962 French edition of The Atomic
Era and the Philosophy of the Far East as trans- Era and the Philosophy of the Far East as
lated by Michael and Maria Chen. translated by Michael and Maria Chen.
1. No Fatigue: “Fatigue is the real foundation of all 1. Fatigue: “caused by a disorderly life (undisci-
diseases. You can cure it without any medicine plined, mean, ungrateful) or a chaotic family
if you understand and practice the macrobiotic or parents.” “The root of the disease tree is a
way to longevity and rejuvenation.” disordered, weak, and ungrateful life...”
2. Good Appetite: “A good appetite for food and 2. Pain and suffering: “caused by low judgment
sex is health itself.” Eating “…the simplest food (capricious, sensorial, sentimental, conceptual,
with joy, pleasure, and deep gratitude to God the exclusive) and psychosomatic illness.” The
Creator indicates a good appetite.” trunk of disease tree represents low judging
ability.
3. Deep and Good Sleep: “If you cannot fall asleep
within three or four minutes after putting your 3. Chronic symptoms: “caused by an excess of yin
head on the pillow, under any circumstance, at or yang in food (through love or hate of certain
any time, your mind is not free from some fear.” foods), leading to headache, painful chest, diar-
rhea, vomiting, ulcer, trachoma, leukemia (all
4. Good Memory: Memory is the single most skin and blood diseases).”
important factor in our lives, the foundation
of our personality, the com-pass of our being. 4. Sympatheticotonic or vagotonic disorders:
Without a strong memory...we are nothing but “The sickness has ascended to the automonic
machines.” nervous system.” These disorders and chronic
symptoms are the branches of the disease.
5. Good Humor: “A man of good health is free
from anger, fear, or suffering and is cheerful 5. Organ disorders: “Functional and structural
and pleasant under all circumstances. The more change in the organs themselves.” These are the
difficulties and enemies he has, the more happy, flowers of the disease.
brave, and enthusiastic he becomes.”
6. Psychological or emotional problems: “schizo-
6. Clarity in Thinking and Doing: “Promptness phrenia, neurasthenia, hysteria, cardiac dilation,
is the expression of freedom. Those who are etc.”
prompt, quick, precise, and ready to answer any
challenge or necessity are healthy...” and have “... 7. Spiritual disease: “This afflicts those of such
the ability to establish order everywhere.” good physical constitution that they bypass the
first six stages. They suffer unconsciously from
7. The Mood of Justice: “The mood of justice is their arrogance and intolerance, and despite the
revealed by your tendency to live in accordance appearance of success are without faith, hope,
with the natural Order of the Universe, by your joy, or love, and their lives always end tragi-
inclination to recognize yin and yang in every cally.” “The fruits of the disease are stages 6 and
phenomenon…” 7.”
Quotations from Essential Ohsawa by George Adapted from Essential Ohsawa by George
Ohsawa; www.ohsawamacrobiotics.com. Ohsawa; www.ohsawamacrobiotics.com.
Natural medicine—“All disease, unhappiness, Vivere parvo—“Live by the principle of vivere par-
crime, and punishment result from behavior that vi- vo, which means: be detached from all that is not
olates the Order of the Universe. The cure is, there- absolutely and immediately necessary.”
fore, infinitely simple. Merely stop violating that or-
der and allow Nature to do her miraculous work.” Quantity kills quantity—“Eat and drink only the
absolute minimum, remembering that quantity
Principal food—“Only whole grains are meant to changes quality—and that individual needs are dif-
be used as principal foods...they form the founda- ferent.”
tion of a macrobiotic way of eating because they are
a combination of both seed and fruit, are abundant Individual responsibility—“The drive to cure only
on the Earth, and are a most economical, ecologi- symptoms or to have control of one’s health without
cal, and nutritious food.” accepting responsibility is comparable to the notion
on the part of an individual that he can step in front
Natural therapy—“My therapy is very simple: Nat- of a moving train and not be struck down.”
ural food, no medicine, no surgery, no inactivity...
avoid animal protein as much as possible, and com- Mea culpa—“Many a man wishes to be cured by
pletely avoid refined sugar.” others or by some mechanical device, all the while
bypassing his own involvement and personal re-
Natural immunity—“Immunity is a characteris- sponsibility, the cause of his disease: mea culpa...
tic of health...and what is health? It is the normal my fault. There can be no cure unless we recognize
condition of all living beings. And what is life?...It is our own faults, our own ignorance, and above all,
the materialization of the invisible infinite...and the the Order of the Universe—the key to our health,
lengthy return trip through dematerialization toward freedom, and justice.”
eternal spiritualization.”
Happiness—“Everyone is born happy. If an individ-
Shin do fu ji—“The world of life is governed by the ual does not continue to be happy, it is his own fault;
law of God: Shin do fu ji, meaning the body and the through ignorance, he has violated the Order of the
land are not two (separated or divided).” Universe through improper eating and drinking.”
Quotations excerpted and adapted from George Quotations excerpted and adapted from George
Ohsawa’s Essential Ohsawa by Carl Ferré; www. Ohsawa’s Essential Ohsawa by Carl Ferré; www.
ohsawamacrobiotics.com. ohsawamacrobiotics.com.
No exclusivity—“Exclusivity is both the most diffi- Peace—“Only those who see that the two sides of
cult disease in the world to cure and the origin of all all phenomena, visible and invisible, are front and
unhappiness. One must become the sort of person back or beginning and end of one reality can em-
who cannot possibly dislike any other human be- brace any antagonistic situation, see its comple-
ing.” mentarity, and help others to do the same, thereby
establishing peace and harmony.”
Gratitude—“Accept everything with unlimited joy
and gratitude, even if it be extremely humiliating, Justice—“Absolute justice is the impartial law that
painful, or the cause of great inconvenience... Main- applies to all that exists. It is the Order of the Uni-
tain yourself in such a condition that from morning verse, which creates, animates, and transmutes
until evening the words flowing out of your mouth everything...Absolute justice is absolutely impartial,
reflect infinite gratitude.” and he who knows this is also impartial.”
Oneness—“The meaning of oneness [is] to experi- Love—“To love is to give and not to take in return.
ence the fact that the soul is one, that all things in The give-and-take system is a mere egoism, for to
this world are indivisible despite the fact that human give and give more is to become a creator...to give,
beings are apparently separate...Here is the mean- give, give is to deposit in the unlimited bank, the
ing of unity...the unification of the entire world.” Bank of Infinity.”
Quotations excerpted and adapted from George Quotations excerpted and adapted from George
Ohsawa’s Essential Ohsawa by Carl Ferré. Ohsawa’s Essential Ohsawa by Carl Ferré.