ANNIVERSARY OF GEORGES OHSAWA
April 24, 2023
Part 2

Georges J. OHSAWA

Written 24 April, 2023
Text translated into English and published on June 4, 2024

Let's continue to learn the philosophy of the UNIQUE PRINCIPLE from Professor G. OHSAWA.

LIFE IS JUST A DREAM
G. OHSAWA – 1964
Part 2 (continued)

Modern man deifies himself because he is egocentric and dualistic. He confronts himself with others. He insists on property and his own privilege. He is more intellectual than primitive man. This is why he can and does exploit the ignorant primitive. He colonized all the countries of the primitive world, or almost. The Modern man invents many things – locks and keys, rifles and machine guns – always more powerful than the previous ones. He invents laws and governments to limit the freedom of others.

To speak logically, the scientific theory of the origin of creation is more childish and superficial than the “Book of Genesis”. It completely ignores the origin of life and things and, all in all, the scheme, its creator and its mechanism, and its energy of evolution.

It is said that modern biology leaves no doubt that illness and pestilence are not manifestations of the wrath of God but simply the result of chance.

Here we see one extreme of the Western misunderstanding of the Eastern mentality. Western or modern man is completely ignorant of the oriental concept of God, which concept is the ONE of the Order-Constitution of the world interpreted in simple language for primitive, innocent men. “The wrath of God” is also a childish expression, a symbolic transformation of the mea culpa in the mentality of the primitive man.

I do not want to develop an object lesson of oriental medicine here; it is nothing other than a biological and physiological application of the Unique Principle. It has cured thousands of incurable chronic diseases in Europe and America since I first visited the continents. Modern medicine would have done better to question this subject more seriously. It cannot cure these common and chronic diseases, although they have been known for thousands of years. In addition, it cannot cure the most modern diseases. The uselessness or ineffectiveness of modern medicine has been noted and published recently in special issues of the review "Time" (February 1960 issue, French edition, and also in an issue of an American edition).

The three major diseases in the United States: cancer, mental illnesses and heart disorders, are more or less officially incurable by modern medicine (And still relevant today with complications and dissemination of these three pathologies to which we must add neurodegenerative diseases; heart disease as the leading cause of death; editor's note). Statistically, there are 128,000,000 people in the United States who are registered as suffering from chronic diseases of one kind or another (Today, 243,000,000 Americans including 205 million obese and 133 million diabetics with associated or double chronic pathologies for some, according to the Centers of Disease Control; editor's note).
This is the wrath of God, or the most complete evidence of the violation of the ORDER of the UNIVERSE by modern man, who is superintended by modern medicine.

Which is preferable? To be civilized or intellectual, but to suffer from chronic illness all the life, to live in an invincible uncertainty with fear, and to die desperate? Or to be an innocent savage who enjoys life in all circumstances?

I believe it is reasonable to be a modern man in everyday life, while recognizing the ancient and honorable ORDER of the UNIVERSE.

Modern man believes that Darwin, along with other scientists, produced a great light and a considerable understanding on how the origin of life appeared. So, he rejected the idea of spontaneous generation, but scientific research only leads to a world without purpose and devoid of meaning.
The deification of man and science comes to its predictable end. Darwin's thinking was limited and infantile; or, perhaps he was nearsighted or colorblind. He glimpsed the evolution as if through a camera; thus, so he could not perceive the multitude of factors and mechanisms that collaborate to carry out and control the evolution that he barely saw. Moreover, he was blind, absolutely blind towards the operation of this evolution: LIFE, the origin of evolution. The camera is a precision instrument, but it does not have a brain of its own. The operator must make up for this lack.

The deification of man, reflected in the denial or ignorance of the order-constitution of the universe, results in its imminent destruction. His agony, his anxiety, his uncertainty, his fear, his guilt, are the signals of the modern man on the road to the fall. Is man still, or much more, egocentric after the total negation of the anthropocentric conception of the world by Copernicus?

Man has no other alternative than to re-examine all the bases of his culture and learn to rethink from the beginning. There are no easy solutions, and many of the conventions he cherishes must be excluded as the Old World gives way to the New.

We live in a changing, exciting world, in which paradoxically, the brightest and most hopeful perspectives for humanity coexist with the darkest dangers. (The Inhabited Universe, by K. W. Gatland).

If you are a modern man of science and modest enough to agree with the author of these lines, allow me to offer you our Unique Principle; a Principle thousands of years old and yet still vital, and alive, and present in the everyday life of hundreds of millions of Eastern people.

The Unique Principle teaches us to think and judge correctly. According to our universal logic, there are two absolutely different categories of thought: the first one, “Omou”, way of thinking in a relative value about things, things in this universe of relativity; the second, “Kangaeru”, way of thinking in the universe of infinity (of which our world of relativity is an infinitesimal point).

For these two categories of thought, our old philosophy offers only a unique instrument: the polarizable monistic dialectic of YIN-YANG, the Principle that was symbolized in the "Magic Carpet", in "The Lamp of Aladdin", by "Sesame open up; Si-Yuh-Ki", and many other stories of the Orient.

G. OHSAWA - 1964
       End of article: «Life is a dream».

YIN-YANG QUESTIONS AND THOUGHTS
CONCERNING THIS TEXT

It would be necessary, of course, to explain the underlying framework of the text of G. OHSAWA; certain turns of phrase or metaphors for the neophytes, those who are beginning to practice this philosophy, or for those who are interested in it intellectually or philosophically. Expressions that may seem simplistic or contradictory to them.

We must therefore reread at the “second degree” or with the dialectical Compass which opens up the existential and philosophical depth of the G. OHSAWA ‘s text.

For example, I have already cited the paradoxical act of the primitive man. He realizes a dream in which he is robbed and decides to give what is precious to him to the thief.
This seems absurd: a fellow who dreams that someone will steal or plunder him, will on the contrary increase his distrust and lock his house with triple locks to protect their property!

This primitive man then seems either a dupe or suffering from psychological disorders. But no ! For him the dream is not a dream but a reality resulting from Infinite (divine) Memory.
It summons him and signifies to him the acts of «good conditions» to be carried out for the evolution of his own destiny.

Contrary to Western interpretations, it is not a pleasant or unpleasant dream fantasy. Nor to the psychoanalyst S. Freud, for whom the dream is the rearrangement of daytime remains or the function of an instinctual (pulsional) desire.

It is up to us to reflect on the deep meaning of the Primitive Oriental Spirit who lives in a world that we can call: EREWHON. It is the “dream” world of Samuel Butler (who was a shepherd in his youth) equivalent to that of Lewis Carroll who preceded him with “Alice’s adventures in Wonderland”.

Another example. “Oriental philosophy teaches the negation of the self.” But if we erase the self, what remains? Are we nothing at all? We must not confuse the denial of identity, of the ego, which is the schizophrenic state, and the mastery of its self.

This «Refutation» serves the need to first go through the «negation of the self» that is to put his ego, the little me, where he must be, that is to say in his hut of guardian and apply the tasks strictly assigned. Once this work is done, «meet» his spiritual Self so that it regains its sovereign place, its regalian place.

In short, our ego is placed in its “hut” while our true identity which unfolds in the “work” of the Way, takes the form of an infinite spiritual Self…

Another example. G. OHSAWA talks about “the polarizable monistic dialectic of YIN-YANG, the Principle which was symbolized in the “Magic Carpet”, in the “Aladdin’s Lamp” ...”.
After having defeated the powerful and legendary Darwinian theory concerning the evolution of species, he proposes a serious revolution in Western science and a change of the whole civilization, based on the Unique Principle.

And this Principle is itself represented by «symbolic stories» such as a «Magic Carpet» and «The Lamp of Aladdin». Ostensibly for the common man these are only imaginary entertainment or children’s tales!

Here is yet another metaphorical paradox stemming from the Unique Principle: magical tales, an “Open Sesame” etc.… which serve as a pattern for a very ancient philosophy and science of the Oriental Schools to revise the powerful analytical, that sovereign modern science, and to renovate the bases and conceptions of current sophisticated civilization.

Here’s what G. OHSAWA offers us to walk through this ancient dying world, because from the start the way he took was erroneous, skewed, and even senseless. He professes to constitute a New world with the model of the Unique Principle YIN-YANG which teaches us to think intelligently and spiritually: “Kangaeru”.

In the spirit of this text, Kangaeru means: meditative process in the constant practice of the Macrobiotic Dietetics, the Macrobiotic Principle and the Unique Principle to integrate these oriental legends which are in reality true scientific and philosophical models disguised as tales “des mille et une nuits” (“the thousand and one nights”; Arabians’ legends: Alf Laylah wa-Laylah).
Only sincere and regular practice opens the curtain to grasp the formidable depth of the UNIQUE PRINCIPLE “made up” by these adventurous and recreational tales and legends.

Much better than the method of Descartes (died exhausted by his excessive lovemaking “frolics” with Christine of Sweden…); and even better than that of Einsteinian physicists who confuse relativity and Infinity; and even better than that of color-blind geneticists who want to make the living and fickle genome a new atomistic religion.

And at last, he gave us a terrible prophecy: "We live in a changing, exciting world, in which paradoxically, the brightest and most hopeful perspectives for humanity coexist with the darkest dangers."

This is a text that I have chosen because it fully enters into the pedagogy of the dialectical model of the Unique Principle that Professor G. OHSAWA came to offer us in the continuity of his work fundamentally committed almost 2000 years ago now (and since much more…).

ZEN MACROBIOTIQUE - Edition VRIN - Sorbonne Paris.

SOME QUESTIONS TO GO FURTHER FOR RESEARCHERS OF PHILOSOPHY

OF OUR UNIQUE PRINCIPLE

I ranked them in order of difficulty from 1 to 10.

1.    Can we produce Dream by techniques (feeding behavior) or food consumption? How it works?

2.    Is the Dream triggered by a diet that is too YANG or too YIN? Why?
3.    Which menus of the Zen Macrobiotic repertoire predisposes to the act of dreaming?
4.    Why do animal products cause nightmares? How it works?

5.    How do we know if the life we lead is a dream or the constitution of our true destiny, our Pact Life?
6.    If a night in your sleep or contemplation, an “entity” shows you that your life is only a dream, how will you know that you are not dreaming a reverie?
7.    Have you ever dreamed while thinking or acting as in everyday reality?

8.    Is the Real world here in daily life or in a Dream dimension? Why?
9.    Is progress in the faculty of Judgment a matter of substituting one dream with another, more virtuoso dream in order to advance? Does the dream process play a role in the evolution of Judgment?

10.    Are we in a universe that is only an illusion manufactured or cultivated artificially, by super-intelligent beings or generated by human energies (and others livings beings…) in an endless generational chain, from generation to generation?



Ad Vitam æternam.
L. DEYNE