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Originally posted by Ulrike
I want to add some thoughts:
A macrobiotic diet for me is getting on my feet. Without a body I wouldn't exist. The first step in taking care of myself is to take care of my body. When it feels well its illness doesn't occupy my whole attention. Instead, my health gives me a positive energy. We begin to experience that the principle of yin and yang really exists by eating macrobioticly and observing the effects on our own body and the sense of order that is in it. Our body shares the same principle as the world surrounding us. Our soul is effected by it - our thoughts too.
Whatever happens after life we don't know. I read an interesting study on afterlife experiences in a German newspaper. It compared the experiences of former East-Germans with former West-Germans:
- the West-Germans had reported familiar observations: A bright light, a passage- everything seeming to be very meaningful and symbolic.
- many of the East-Germans, who were mostly brought up to be atheists, arrived at a novel perception. As I recall, they felt they where thrown into a grey room, with not much happening. An experience of a rather dull quality.
My immediate thoughts were: perhaps it's better to furnish our afterlives while we still can. Maybe we get what we expect.
In one piece, Ulrike
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Hi Ulrike,
I think your post takes us back to question "What is the meaning of life" after some loing, but interesting posts.
We have a body here otherwise we could not exist on earth. But why are we here? What is the meaning of our lives?
My original answer is in the archives.
I think what you are saying here about expectations is a very good point. Interesting to think that, at least here in the US, many of our associates believe that heaven is a place where everyone plays the harp and has angel wings....
Kurt Vonnegut, the famous author, calls heaven the turkey farm...he describes it as a place that is full of lots of noise...all these people who never played a musical instrument while on earth now are trying to play the harp!
But in terms of macro philosophy, The spiral diagram that Ohsawa discusses and outlines as does Herman Aihara, is something that more of us may want to explore.
Dave
