In the last 3 billion years no other animal species on this Earth learned the art of cooking, Man is the only one who applies it in his daily diet. As a result of his intellectual development that increased with the consumption of cereal grains for millions of years, he began during the ice age to use fire in search of an adaptation to his environment. Fire provides energy, vitalizing physical, mental and spiritual activities. For this same reason, the Man began to build his culture and civilization.
In the beginning, the fire was applied to their food, then to produce the clothing, later it was applied to their home, along with the manufacture of tools and equipment with the natural materials that surrounded it. Thanks to the fire absorbed by his body in the form of food, and to the fire that surrounded him in the form of culture, the emotional, intellectual, social and ideological consciousness of Man grew rapidly. Man has become a totally different species from other biological lives on Earth. Prometheus managed to free Man from his environment so that he would no longer be subordinate to it, and he would be able to adapt positively to administer his own destiny.
However, to the extent that he applies the use of fire in the various domains of his life, turning his into a technological society, he began to lose his ability to use fire in a flexible way to his natural environment, and has Become a slave to the firework environment that has grown out of your control. Civilization, especially in the last thousands of years, has continued its course without an adequate cure based on the understanding of life and the order of the universe.
Internally, modern Man now suffers from various physical and mental illnesses due to the use of artificial and denatured food and beverages, and from breathing contaminated air, all produced by the action of fire; while externally he is experiencing. ':' Do various conflicts and struggles, wars and battles. Also resulting from the application of fire. The current human current of physical and mental, social and spiritual generation, which is now developing in such an scope that can lead to the extinction of Homo sapiens, originally began with the improper use of fire, especially in the preparation of food, source of the adaptability of Man to Earth.
For that reason, it is urgent and essential that everyone understand the culinary principles that should be applied to daily food. These principles must not only be applied to ensure the existence of Man as a human species, but also to a greater development of the quality of humanity, as the greatest art produced by Man. As much as there are important works of art like those of Miguel Angel and Leonardo Da Vinci, Beethoven and Mozart and many others, none was able to create and change life itself. Except the art of cooking applied to daily life. The purpose of culinary art is to use a part of the environment - minerals. water, biological life, atmosphere, pressure and time - to transform the simplest dishes into the most practical and delicately condensed ways designed to gently change Man into a healthy, happy and free being.
These principles contain the following aspects:
1. All food genera must be chosen among organic products that grow in the same region and in the same season.
2. They must represent all stages of biological development in their entirety - mostly plant species in cases of adults who do not live in polar regions.
3. These foodstuffs must maintain their vitality until the moment of cooking and used integrally.
4. The foundation of daily food should be centered on whole grains.
5. Before applying fire and water, chopped foods must be cooked separately - and not mixed - to avoid quality exchange.
6. When cutting food, it is preferable that each piece can represent the two qualities Yin and Yang.
7. During the cooking process, we should avoid stirring too often, and allow as much as possible that simple foods mix together during the natural cooking process.
Yin and Yang in human activity
One type of Yin activity is more mental, emotional, intellectual and philosophical in activities such as the arts, music, architecture, planning, accounting, legal, administration, religion and spiritual, teaching, secretarial, literature, planning and thinking.
Yang activities are physically and socially more dynamic including manual labor, construction, automotive management, distribution and sales, promotion, public relations, production, politics, martial arts, sports, dance and agriculture.
The Yin types of activity are those that are dedicated to those fed by a more Yin type of food (their faces are generally more elongated), while the Yang types of activity belong to people engaged in tasks resulting from a more Yang consumption of food (Their faces are generally rounder or square).
The seven levels in eating
The eating habits of all the peoples of the Earth belong, according to their states of judgment and conscience, to the following 7 levels:
1st Level: Eat mechanically according to appetite without using any clear conscience. People of this level eat anything available around them. His way of life is to respond mechanically without thought or idea to any external stimulus.
2nd Level: Eat according to a desire of the senses, such as taste, color, smell and volume. People of this level are the ones who follow popular tastes looking for foods that satisfy the senses, seeking sensual pleasure and satisfying their desires for anything is their way of life.
3rd Level: Eat according to emotional satisfaction. These people prefer an atmosphere and arrangement of dishes that appeal to their sentimental comfort, often using music, candles and certain forms of dishes for aesthetic reasons. Some of them advocate vegetarianism for sentimental reason that they do not want to kill animal life.
4th Level: Eat according to an intellectual justification. It is generally based on theories about nutrition that include the concepts of calories, vitamins, enzymes, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals and many other food components. This is the theoretical way of eating of modern society, but its defect is the lack of a clear vision of the biological nature of humanity in relation to the environment, and the absence of a true understandable principle.
5th Level: Eat according to a social conscience. It is based on the idea of a fair distribution, often by an egalitarian principle. At the same time, ethics and morals as well as an economic conscience control the types and volumes of food consumed. The control in the production and distribution of food belongs to this level. The national and international economy also manages food programs at this level many times.
6th Level: Eat according to ideological beliefs. Corresponding to this level, all forms of eating based on religious and spiritual traditions: Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism and many other traditional teachings include dietary disciplines.
This way of eating is blindly observed or ignored in modern society.
7th Level: Eat according to a free conscience. This way is to eat according to a clear and intuitive judgment, freely exercised. This intuitive way of eating does not preclude any type of food, but automatically selects and prepares the one that best matches the environment. This is the way to eat to realize our dreams.
Low levels of eating produce more lack of harmony between people and the natural environment, resulting in physical, mental and spiritual chaos. Higher levels produce more harmonious relationships with the environment. However, the way of eating expressed from the 1st to the 6th level eventually results in disorder. Only the 7th level can ensure good health and individual happiness and for society as a whole. This way of eating begins with the understanding of the order of the universe and the biological clarification of the veiled consciences through the practice of an adequate diet for a period of time.
Michio Kushi
Source: The Macrobiotic book
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