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do i understand mb? does mb cost?
the appearance of a written version of mb was pretty miraculous:
george ohsawa had to come down with a case of tuberculosis; he had to lose his mother to tuberculosis; he had to be sent home (to die of tuberculosis) by the public health authorities; he had to discover a text by sagen ishizuka in a second-hand bookseller's penny-value bin; this book, in turn, had to be the exact text that showed him how to save his life.
from that point on, ohsawa tried to understand [read: rationalize] the process by which his life was saved. historically, orientals rationalize [read: think] in terms of yin and yang. the
complicating factor was that the japanese government's military advisers had convinced the emperor to proscribe the use of traditional japanese medicine. they favored the newly-developed western medicine, and they wished to introduce that system's chemical-based nomenclature. ohsawa needed to think in terms of chemical notations.
thus, you will find substantial effort expended by early mb theorists to analyze and substantiate their work using sodium-potassium relations. are you having difficulty understanding their theories? do you find their theories to be superficial? this is not surprising.
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on the other hand, yin-yang theory (the traditional way of oriental thought) isn't hard to pick up. ohsawa can teach it to you in an hour. (the application is another matter . . . perhaps. in my case, for example, i was dense enough to take twenty years to come . . . to an appreciation of the yin-yang equivalency of diet!)
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ohsawa showed many persons - western as well as eastern -
how to save their lives. his version of applied mb is not for the exclusive use of orientals. by the same token, of course, he does use rice. when clients were saved. he didn't ask for cash. instead, he asked, How much is your life worth to you?
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Last edited by mike chen; 01-14-2002 at 12:40 AM.
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