Professor OHSAWA, The Foundations of Macrobiotics
Currently, to pay tribute to good and knowledgeable people, many people recognize the macrobiotic method founded by the Japanese forefather George Ohsawa. However, he never acknowledged himself as the founder. Someone asked him: “Why did you invent the macrobiotic method?” The Prophet replied, “I am not the founder. I just discovered what was already there.” Ohsawa was born on October 18, 1893, and died on April 24, 1966. His English name is Georges Ohsawa, and his Japanese name is Sakurazawa Nyoichi. It can be said that a prophet is a nutritionist, medical scientist, scientist, philosopher, cosmologist…
When he was young, he was not as lucky as other children, orphaned at the age of 10. You remember vividly the last words your mother whispered on that sad evening: “I am a weak person, I try to study…” After waiting for a long time, I did not hear anything more from my mother, sir. took his 6-year-old brother out into the hallway and watched his friends playing under the distant lights, then went to sleep. Little did he know that his mother had taken her last breath after that whisper. In the morning, the neighbors discovered that his mother had passed away forever. His mother was a diligent nurse in Western medicine and died of tuberculosis. After that, the younger brother left with his mother, leaving him also because of tuberculosis. Before that, his sister also died of tuberculosis. When he was 16 years old, he also had tuberculosis, his lungs were punctured with deep holes. At that time, the hospital gave up, there was no way to save it. At the beginning of the 20th century, pulmonary tuberculosis had no cure and all people with tuberculosis had to die. At that time, he was living in a monastery. He sought out many great masters to find a cure for him. In the end, he discovered that only food could cure his illness. By the age of 18, he had cured himself of tuberculosis with a diet consisting of brown rice, fresh vegetables, sea salt and oil.
After healing himself from tuberculosis by eating right, he spent the rest of his life studying how to eat to cure disease and improve health as a tribute. In addition, he also suffered from heart disease, kidney disease and most seriously stomach cancer at that time and in turn he completely cured these diseases on his own. The ancestors have synthesized the principles of eating and drinking based on the quintessence of the East into a strict and modern system of reasoning so that later people can easily learn and practice. Currently called the Macrobiotic Method.
Not only did he treat the body, but he also wanted us to cure all diseases of the mind such as greed, anger, infatuation, arrogance, etc. He said: “Any disease can be cured except pride.” It shows that mental illness is extremely difficult to cure. The Prophet understood why we develop mental illness. That’s because our perception is wrong. We do not understand the laws of nature and the cosmic order that our ancestors discovered thousands of years ago. They are located in the ancient oriental study pool. They are obscured by the temporary glitz of modern science and technology. Young people now only know how to run after the light of the scientific torch in front of them and forget the sunlight behind them.
When seeing wrong knowledge, it gives rise to the disease of greed. When greed arises, we want to own all the material things, which is money, wealth, land, beauty, knowledge, fame… When we have one of these things, we are born. infatuation and arrogance. The more you possess, the more infatuation and arrogance. Usually, the richer the person, the higher the degree or the higher the status, the larger the “me”, which is showing the increased arrogance. Few people dare to give up wealth, give up degrees, give up status. Inadvertently or intentionally trespassing on these properties or obstructing them all anger the owners. It all comes from small struggles to wars for markets, for power or wars between nations.
Body and mind are one. When the mental illness is healed, the physical illness disappears on its own. Likewise, when the physical illness is healed, the mental illness is no longer significant and will gradually dissipate with the increasing health of the body. The more correct eating and drinking, the more the part of seeing and knowing, and the more the part of seeing that develops, the more correct the adjustment of eating.
Seeing that the Yin-Yang Philosophy was difficult to understand and foreign to Westerners, he interpreted this philosophy into the Unparalleled Principles so that it would be easy for Westerners to understand and follow. Vo Song Nguyen Ly is also suitable for Eastern people, especially young people, who do not have much access to the category of Yin and Yang. The Unparalleled Principles is a work that marks a turning point in Ohsawa’s outstanding intellectual development and demonstrates his profound understanding of the Yin-Yang Philosophy and the universe. “According to Eastern philosophy, nothing on this earth is apart from Yin and Yang,” he said. The Unparalleled Principle is the Yin-Yang philosophy and the Yin-Yang philosophy is the Unparalleled Principle.
Understanding the Unparalleled Principle and Cosmic Order, the first master understands the formation of all things and all phenomena in this world. Thanks to that, the progenitor transformed
Georges Ohsawa – Biography
G. Ohsawa (1893 – 1966)
- 1893: born in Kyoto, Japan.
- 1908: suffering from tuberculosis, orthodox medicine can’t cure it.
- 1912: cured of tuberculosis thanks to the dietary treatment of doctor Sagen Ijizuka (1850-1909), who advocated the treatment of disease with food based on the balance of K/Na elements.
- 1914: First visit to France.
- In 1915: worked as a branch manager of Nakagiri Trading Company in Kobe, Japan.
- 1917: worked as the director of the Kobe branch of the Kumazawa import-export company; started giving macrobiotic lectures and made some macrobiotic dishes.
- 1924: quit business, devoted full-time to the macrobiotic movement.
- 1929 – 1931: went to Paris, France to spread macrobiotics; listening at the Sorbonne and the Pasteur Institute; lived very poor and wrote books.
- 1936: meets Lima; she became Ohsawa’s assistant wife for life.
- 1949 – 1953: established the medical journal Sana; encouraging students from Japan to go abroad to spread macrobiotics.
- 1953: left Japan with Lima to spread macrobiotics around the world.
- 1965: traveled to Europe and the United States giving lectures and talks; to Vietnam to visit the macrobiotic movement here.
- 1966: died at home in Tokyo.
George Ohsawa (1893-1966) is considered the founder of the macrobiotic principles and lifestyle.
Khai Minh Nutrition