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Going beyond yoga, many cultural revolutionaries are adopting-or at least sampling-an imported version of the dietary discipline of the Zen Buddhists. That diet had been dubbed macrobiotic (from makros, meaning long, and bios, meaning life) by the late Japanese Author George Ohsawa, who wrote dozens of abstruse books on ancient Oriental diet and medicine and was the principal proselytizer for macrobiotics in Europe...
...from six to minus three to include increasing amounts of fish and vegetables -organically grown-along with brown rice. In actual practice, a good many youthful macrobiotics also eat meat. Explains Michel Abehsera, author of the cookbook recommended by the Whole Earth Catalog: "Meat finds its way into the Zen macrobiotic diet quite simply as a concession to man's sensual desires...
Clue in the Candy. The farthest-out macrobiotic lore, which would come as a surprise to the Zen Buddhist monks themselves, is to be found in the culinary columns of underground newspapers, where readers are routinely warned against eating too much meat, dairy products or sugar. A columnist in the Los Angeles Free Press, for example, recently speculated that the University of Texas massacre a few years back was caused by too much yin-in this case sugar-in the killer's blood. The clue that supported his conclusion: chocolate candy was found in the pockets of the slain...
...spirit of the Zen master captured in a (Zen) portrait, like the spirit of Zen teaching from mind to mind, is the "be-ingness" in a photograph that White proposes as an ideal form. Be-ingness is like photographing one hand clasping...