ANNIVERSARY OF GEORGES OHSAWA
April 24, 2023
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| Georges J. OHSAWA |
Written 24 April, 2023
I translated into English for all our native English-speaking friends.
Text Published on Mai X, 2024
GEORGES OHSAWA: WHO IS HE? WHAT DID HE ESTABLISH IN THIS 20TH CENTURY?
Georges OHSAWA (1893-1966), born in 1893 in Kyoto was a Philosopher and a Doctor therapist who lived as much in East and West throughout his life.
Earth life that ended on April 24, 1966, 58 years ago.
G. OHSAWA is the Creator-Founder of the Macrobiotic method, its modern concepts, and its culinary and nutritional techniques.
He creates a new interpretation of ancient eastern philosophies and medicines that he named PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE OF THE FAR EAST.
He propagated and transmitted the Macrobiotic(s) and the Philosophy of the UNIQUE PRINCIPLE all around the world: Japan, France (Europe), India, USA, Vietnam, Africa, Russia, … for free, to everyone, all over the world. Unlike some "business men" who have copied them and would like to make Copyright or Trademark.
This Macrobiotic Dietetics is only an application of the SINGLE PRINCIPLE from which LE COMPAS YIN-YANG is derived.
He mainly spread it while it is only a system to establish a base that opens up to the real goal which is to develop the process of infinite consciousness.
Macrobiotic Dietetics is a remarkable praxis (practice) to first achieve an optimal level of health. Then allows entering into the psychic and energetic perception of the Macrobiotic Principle. And thirdly, deepen the degree of integration of the Unique Principle YIN-YANG. What many ignore or not practice.
These three phases, Macrobiotic Dietetics, Macrobiotic Principle, Unique Principle YIN-YANG, are the only true spiritual goal, (see in this site: Vie Macrobiotique Et Philosophie Du Principe Unique, La Voie Macrobiotique, Les Trois Phases Essentielles, Oct 2022 / Macrobiotic Life and Philosophy of the Unique Principle, The Macrobiotic Pathway, The Three Essential Phases, Oct 2022).
Attaining the highest spiritual state is the essential motive of the Philosophy of the Unique Principle according to G. OHSAWA.
G. OHSAWA has invented and perfected to excellence a new interpretation of ancient Eastern philosophies and medicines which he has modernized and named FAR EAST PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE.
In this Philosophy and Science of the Far East all the SOURCES and PURPOSES of the old Oriental philosophies and schools which you meet in the way of the Macrobiotic Principle are combined.
The ORDER of the UNIVERSE is the eternal school!
G. OHSAWA said: “This guide to your life is more than enough in this great school. I have never written a book that answers so many questions, although I have written over 300 in Japanese.”; Le Zen Macrobiotique, Vrin Edition, p. 47.
THE MEANING OF THE UNIQUE PRINCIPLE IN THE WRITING STYLE
I took the time to translate entirely this important text of G. OHSAWA into English for our very dear American friends
assiduous and aware of the teaching of G. OHSAWA.
Those who have chosen to stay near the thousand-year-old oak, that is to say at the heart of the teaching of G. OHSAWA, those who have not given in to the spectacular and exoteric siren song.
And also, for all our other Anglo-Saxon friends, who strive to practice the Macrobiotic Principle according to their style in this life and the following ones...
My English today is modest, neither academic nor anchored in Anglo-Saxon culture, despite the very good level of semantics and lexicon that I practiced at secondary school.
I did not maintain it for the benefit of my mother tongue which I did not want to lose; that indigenous language derived from the ancestral Sumerian language which gave Aramaic (according to certified linguists) and the latter gave the language derived in part from the Aramaic that my mother spoke and her genealogical ancestry.
After a long practice of the Macrobiotic Philosophical Principle and numerous readings of the writings of G. OHSAWA, I discovered that this ancient language (derivative Aramaic), learned from my animist mother, was of the same fabric as the Erewhonian language (from the paradoxical and satirical narrative of Samuel Butler: Erewhon).
The style of my written English today is rather “cobbled together” but this style has an essential quality: it is embodied as closely as possible in the semantics and Spirit of the writings of this rare Master, G. OHSAWA.
He himself had a specific style in his writings in French: only researchers, francophones, who read and reread his books without letting go of the Practice, discover this secret which expresses his experience and his extremely deep and millennial philosophy in a gradient of increasingly subtle layers.
His texts at first level are absolutely accessible to everyone and to anyone who takes the slightest effort to read them.
But, after some progress by the Practitioner in the Macrobiotic Principle, he discovers, surprised, a scale of depth composed of several strata.
The composition of the texts of G. OHSAWA is made in such a way that it is aimed at all beings who are beginners, curious, diligent, discoverers, experienced, affiliated, and above all seekers of the Truth.
Reading them at the same time as the work of the Practice is as if you were freediving into a shining ocean of elegance and richness. With your adjustable magic glasses, finally acquired, you travel into the true Philosophy and Science of the Far East.
The deeper you dive, the more a paradoxical but extremely realistic and imperishable world is revealed before your presence.
A world where the oldest and the most prized “secrets” by many truth seekers for millennia, become accessible in this textual and pragmatic exploration.
Level after level, the depth of the Macrobiotic Principle and the Millennial Unique Principle are revealed. And as you know so well, a freediver descends into the depths according to his abilities; not only respiratory (physiological) but metabolic (cellular gas exchange).
It is not the lungs but cellular plasticity that takes precedence over performance in immersion and retention time.
In other words, the more we acquire this metabolic capacity (cleanliness and transmutation in the intracellular environment) the more the “veils” open, like curtains at each level of reading, to witness new scenes confined in the Infinite Memory.
Instead of printed textual chapters, spiritual chapters in the same book open to reveal the deep genesis of the Philosophy of the Unique Principle.
I will expose at conferences to demonstrate on specific examples from the texts of G. OHSAWA what I advance above.
In the writings of G. OHSAWA, the more you progress in your practice of Macrobiotic Dietetics and your research and discoveries in the Unique Principle, the more you “dive” into this creative power and clairvoyant stratification.
These are progressive levels of depth that increase your intellectual and spiritual discoveries.
They “pull” you naturally and rhythmically towards biological and psychological health, for the Supreme Judgment.
Without risk and without danger, since everything is done with a natural progress strictly modeled according to the advance of your development and your intention. Your faculties are then acquired with gentleness and continuity...
What a joy that he wrote 10 books (ten books) in French, by himself “Made in Master OHSAWA”. Others were translated by his faithful student and friend, Clim YOSHIMI.
But these ten books of his own French are impregnated, irrigated, animated, with his own semantics, and of his spiritual aura.
I advise you, anglophone friends, to make an effort to read them in this Erewhonian French of G. OHSAWA.
These brief presentations and demonstrations made, I offer you for this anniversary a precious text of G. OHSAWA, written in French, in 1964: La Vie n'est qu'un songe (Life is just a dream). I broadcast it on this site in two parts.
Dream in the dictionary definition is: “A combination of images that appear in the mind during sleep. “Making” a dream - View of the mind - Chimeras - Illusions or vain imaginations”.
The title chosen by G. OHSAWA is clear in the first degree: life would only be a “dream” which has no reality, that is to say a fantastical period in which the subject believed he was doing real things, palpable, and even projects for his personal happiness.
But it went up in smoke: this life that the subject lived was therefore only a fantasy, a dream...
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LIFE IS JUST A DREAM
G. OHSAWA – 1964
Part 1
This is the conclusion of this renowned mathematician who wrote the charming story of Alice in Wonderland. Did Bridgman, Einstein, Oppenheimer, etc. accept and were they satisfied with this conclusion?
The Orientals are much greedier and more voracious. We accept this conclusion but it does not put an end to our research. We accept, and this acceptance is the beginning. “Life is only a dream” is, in reality, our starting point. A bit like Twain's Sawyer, we search for man's the greatest dream, then we try to grab Aladdin's lamp in order to make our dream come true forever. Naturally, our dream is simply eternal happiness consisting of infinite freedom, absolute justice. Our lamp is the Unique Principle.
This attitude seems similar to that of Disraeli who said: «Life is too short to be small». But it’s completely different in reality. I can translate that attitude as, "Life is too big to be small." But by life we mean the ad-infinitum expansion. We can never be too great in this Infinity.
The one who is the greatest in the finite world of relativity is in reality the smallest and most insignificant in the universe of Infinity. We are ashamed to be great in the world of relativity, a world so infinitesimal, so illusory. The greater the reputation in the world of illusion, the greater the difficulty in the search for the Path that leads to the universe of the Infinite.
We are taught to be small, beaten, imperfect, weak, despicable! Never to be the first, but the last. Not to protest, although we are accused or neglected. To recognize our smallness, our weakness, our ignorance, our arrogance and the crimes we have committed, even those who came by ignorance.
It is only through our smallness and insignificance that we can hope to be great and infinite. We do our best to deepen our understanding, our knowledge, our judgment so low, desperately, to reach Satori, self-realization, enlightenment, liberation from the relative into the infinite universe, where we can enjoy infinite freedom and eternal happiness.
This is how we are educated in the East. Our smallness and insignificance are our starting point. This is Eastern philosophy, Western philosophy teaches the positive importance and superiority of man. The Oriental philosophy teaches the negation of the self. And the end of our teaching is the Eastern teaching comes to infinite positivism. While Western scientific education is forced to face what is meaningless, to the "Nowhere", despite the importance and superiority instilled by education, it must here and there beat shamefully retired.
Primitive man loves the sun, the moon, the stars, trees and animals. Modern man has killed his old God and now worships a new one: science. Science, which teaches a new idea about the origin of life, completely rejecting the idea of creation.
What is the difference between the understanding of primitive man and that of modern man? What is the difference between their daily lives? Both have their God; there is no difference in appearance, but a deep chasm separates their mentality. Certainty-uncertainty, joy of living-anxiety, gratitude-fear, satori-total destruction.
The primitive mentality is modest, it is humility itself. Primitive man is ignorant and innocent. This is why he is less criminal. He commits very few social crimes because he lives with his God, side by side, night and day. He makes long trips chasing, without locking his house. He can give his favorite and precious pumpkin and his corn to a stranger because in a dream he saw the stranger stealing and eating them. He can easily detach himself from all that he possesses. (There are hundreds of similar examples from missionary reports compiled in the famous book of Lévy-Bruhl: “Primitive Mentality”). The primitive does not have the concept of possession, because his self is not individual, but collective.
End of the first part of “Life is a dream”.
G. OHSAWA - 1964
Ad Vitam æternam.
L. DEYNE
