God's Way to Health - What is Illness?

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Informally known as Shumei, Shinji Shumeikai, is a spiritual organisation,

dedicated to creating an ideal state of health, happiness and harmony for all

humanity by applying the insights of our founder, Mokichi Okada (1882-1955),

known to Shumei members as Meishusama. Mokichi Okada taught a world free of

sickness, poverty and strife can be achieved through an appreciation of art and

beauty, a reverence for nature through natural agriculture and by the healing

art of Jyorei.

www.shumei.org

 

I was extremely interested in his comments on colds/flu, though some of the

other points on herbs may not please people. I could have removed them but felt

I should type up the article in full. He may just mean that any intervention to

halt the purification process of colds/flu are detrimental....Louise Mclean

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Meishusama's Writings

 

God's Way to Health - What is Illness?

 

Every man and woman has within him or her two kinds of poisonous matter. One

of these is inherent and the other is acquired after birth. The inherent poison

is, of course, passed on from the person's parents and the other comes from

drugs absorbed into the body after birth.

 

Most people will find this statement suprising, because from the earliest

days, medical drugs have been thought of as curing illness and being

complementary to good health. People have always believed that if they can find

a good drug, they will be able to cure the illness and this search has been the

chief end of medical treatment. The USA has been especially notable for its

stress on the importance of drugs and has devoted great effort to the discovery

and development of new medications as everyone know. In the light of this, we

cannot help but think that if illness could be cured by drugs, it would be

steadily getting less and less. And yet illness is, in fact, steadily

increasing. The situation is one of great illogicality and confusion.

 

Originally and basically, there is no such thing as 'medicine' on this earth.

There is not one single thing which can be so described. So-called 'medicines'

are all poisons and it is precisely because they are poisonous that they have an

effect. To be exact, the poisons we call medicines act in a toxic way to reduce

the symptoms of disease and thus give the superficial appearance of a cure. No

real cure takes place.

 

The reason why medicines are in fact toxic is this. The things which human

beings could possibly try to eat were all given life at the same time as the

creation of man. These are what we call food. The two types of food - that is,

that which man should eat and that which he should not eat - are naturally

separated. That is, things which man should eat have a flavour which is

pleasurable to the sense of taste of human beings. If people eat those thing

which they find enjoyable, they will receive adequate nourishment. This shows

the comprehenseive concern of the Creator of the Universe for all creation.

 

This means that, rather than saying that we eat in order to live, the truth is

that we live by eating. This is similar to the case of reproduction. Men and

women do not come together in order to create children. Rather, they are

blessed with children as a half-unexpected consequence of the pursuit of another

goal. This is a profound and divine mystery.

 

The internal organs of the body are unable to deal completely with things that

are not supposed to be taken as food. As medicine is precisely such a foreign

object, although the body absorbs what nutrition there is from it, the remainder

stays in the body and is not all voided. This is medicinal poisoning. The

worst aspect of this is that the poison accumulates in all parts of the body and

it solidifies as time passes.

 

The places where the toxin gathers are always places of high nervous activity.

And when we think where such places are located, we realise that they are, of

course, mostly in the upper half of the body, especially from the neck upwards.

With the brain as the centre, they also include the eyes, the ears, the nose and

the mouth, and it is in these places that the toxin concentrates, once it has

solidified around the neck.

 

When this hardening reaches a certain degreee, there occurs a process of

natural discharge, that is, a process of purification. In this phase, the

solidified toxin is melted by a rise in temperature and becomes a liquid. This

liquid is eliminated from the body by means of a cough, phlegm, nasal discharge,

perspiration, diarrhea, fever or urine. This is what we term a cold.

 

A cold, therefore, is a process of elimination of poisons. If you put up with

the slight discomfort patiently and trust yourself to Nature, the poison will be

discharged with no problems, the inside of your body will be purified and you

will arrive at that state of good health which means that you are truly cured.

A cold is a very simple form of natural regulation. It is God's Providence.

People who do not realise this and don't give heartfelt thanks to God, instead

interpret the significance of the discomfort of the purification in a negative

way and decide that they should try to end it. This way of thinking brings

about medical science, that great source of error.

 

This process of purifcation takes place with greater frequency when the

cleansing power of the body is stronger and more vigorous. A way of preventing

or lessening this frequency is, of course, to weaken the body, and it is towards

this end that the poisons called medicines are used. Traditionally, people have

taken such things as herbs, roots, barks, minerals and the viscera of animals,

have boiled them, made them into powder or taken extracts from them to make

liquid medicines, pills, ointments, injections - indeed all sorts and shapes of

medicament. They are all, however, designed to halt the natural process of

purification. All these medicines are strong and taken in large doses would be

lethal and so they are given to people little by little in a dilute form. They

are thus given in doses to be taken more than once a day and an 'effective'

medicine is one that is toxic to the degree that is only fractionally less than

that necessary to bring about noticeable symptoms of

poisoning.

 

Thus medical science uses poison to prevent the liquefaction and discharge of

already accumulated poison and in fact to harden it. Once you realise this, it

is disturbing to speculate how poisoned the people of today are, and how prone

they are to disease. As a result, the need for prophylaxis and hygiene has been

stridently proclaimed recently and influenza has become an object of fear and

loathing.

 

Again, people assume that human life should only extend to seventy years and

are delighted to attain this age. This is a greatly mistaken view. If a human

being is not afflicted with illness, he or she can easily live for a hundred

years or more. To die before this is to die an unnatural death brought about by

illness. If you do not become ill, you are sure to die a natural death and will

inevitably live a long life.

 

Scientific medical treatment does not cure illness, but only suppresses the

symptoms temporarily. All methods of treatment - such as complete rest,

poultices, liniments, cold compresses, electrotherapy, phototherapy - are no

more than means of hardening the poisons of the body. There are one or two

methods which are a little different - for example, moxa cautery and

thermotherapy - but these also do little more than use the stimulus of heat to

attract poison to the area of treatment, thereby affording temporary relief to

the body. As time passes, the person reverts to his previous condition and the

treatment has in a real sense, failed.

 

Again, cancer is sometimes attacked and destroyed using radium. This would be

fine if it were only the cancer that is destroyed but in fact the entire cell

organisation of the body suffers and the negative effects of the treatment far

outweight the positive ones.

 

One often hears that people who are careful about their health are prone to

illness, whereas those who do not give a thought to it stay healthy. Thus the

families of doctors, nurses and such people are noted for their frequent

illnesses. Interestly enough, if one asks one of the rare people who live to be

a healthy old age, he or she will say, 'I've never been ill, so I've never seen

doctors or taken medicine.' As we see it, such people are healthy because they

do not have medical treatment and do not have medical treatment because they are

healthy. This point deserves deep consideration.

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[Guest guest]

I think Okada is little bit flaky.

 

> Mokichi Okada taught a world free of sickness, poverty

and strife can be achieved through an appreciation of art and beauty,

a reverence for nature through natural agriculture and by the healing

art of Jyorei.

[Guest guest]

Hi Jagannath .. this is really very interesting point of view that cold is

purification.. I have heard fever is purification but cold... too? I am

suffering nearly since many years on cold /btw. became already 80/... so it

would mean that cold is.. healthy?

greetings iren from germany

[Guest guest]

Good morning, my friends,

 

My humble opinion, I think that Mr. Okada had a good

point. I have no scientific training in this, but I

am a harper, interested in music therapy. I have used

my harp to help my husband bring down his blood

pressure, with very good result. Besides, he likes to

hear me play.

 

Not long ago, the Sacramento Bee (newspaper) published

an article about harpists who play in the neonatal

intensive care unit ... it turns out that even very

premature infants benefit greatly from hearing harp

music - they become calmer, their blood oxygenation

improves, etc.

 

If music, a form of art and certainly a beautiful one,

can have such a healing effect, perhaps Okada's ideas

are not so odd? Certainly these things - art, beauty,

the loveliness of a sunset or a tree - uplift the

human spirit and contribute towards health, a feeling

of enjoying opulence and beauty and these must lessen

strife?

 

What does everyone else think?

 

Melangell

 

 

> Mokichi Okada taught a world free of sickness, poverty and strife

> can be achieved through an appreciation of art and beauty,

> a reverence for nature through natural agriculture

[Guest guest]

hi dear Melangell

how happy is your hubby being able to

listen your harp playing.. I envy him..

Yes I am too sure that everything which

calms, soothes our inner perception

is bringing health.. this means what we

can see, listen to, feeling ....may us

uplight.... and of course it can us also

disturb when unharmonious, ugly, non pleasant

and even make ill...

so let us look for seeing, doing and consequently

being good.. / a word from Sathya Sai Baba/ Prashanti Nilayam A.P

blessings

iren

[Guest guest]

Dear Irene,

 

If any condition is chronic then definitely it must be bad. However I

don't think occasional cold is bad.

 

Jagannath.

 

ayurveda, IrenCzajka@a... wrote:

>

this is really very interesting point of view that

cold is purification. I am suffering nearly since many years on cold /btw.

became already 80/... so it would mean that cold is.. healthy?

[Guest guest]

I did not read the whole post before when I posted my reply,but did

just now.

 

 

Okada makes sense makes sense ,but his thoughts about being born with

poisoned was alittle bit illogical to me.

 

I think his orginisation,MOKADA,was here were I live,by the Japanese

community,actually by a Okinawan lady with the same last name.

 

 

I think there is another Japanese man who gives great insight on body

and health,but I forgot his name.

ayurveda, "chotawa" <chotawa> wrote:

>

> I think Okada is little bit flaky.

>

> > Mokichi Okada taught a world free of sickness, poverty

> and strife can be achieved through an appreciation of art and beauty,

> a reverence for nature through natural agriculture and by the healing

> art of Jyorei.

>

[Guest guest]

In einer eMail vom 2005-11-29 04:01:19 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt

jagchat01:

 

> If any condition is chronic then definitely it must be bad. However I

> don't think occasional cold is bad.

 

So dear jagannath i am already married with cold..

iren

[Guest guest]

Children occupy centre of our attention, especially during first 1/3

of our life, when they are very young. Moment some symptoms of ill-

health are noted, first action taken is to rush to the doctor. Author

recollects how a worried mom posted a message on our list for urgent

help when her daughter was having a fever. And kept glued to computer

in hope of a reply soon. Being in a foreign land, and midnight, she

did not know what to do. Having herself suffered heavily due to

various antibiotics, she did not want to try even paracetamol tablet.

When some home remedies were suggested by email, she immediately

followed, some change was attempted evry four hours and by noon next

day, the baby's fever subsided. Modern ayurvedic doctors who express

concerns at online exchange of info like this, should look at such

incidences and better change their views.

 

There is a serious paucity of discussion on this list about children

diseases. Message# 1633,37,50 and 2393 are the only ones which deal

with children problems exclusively.

 

In childhood, every disease gives a friendly visit to the child,

perhaps to make his immune system trained. The fever should be

starved and body should be allowed to take action on its own, as the

conclusion of message# 1633, 1637, 1650 shows. Many medicines for

Asthmatic children are also discussed in Message# 2393.

 

In most conditions of children, there is a need to be patient.

Reactions such as itching, small erruptions,

circles (as in ring worm), loose motions, dyscentry, fever, cough and

cold are caused by toxins leaving the body. Observe for a

week. The reaction stops automatically. No synthetic medicine are

needed to stop reaction.[Message 4169].

 

Author feels a great happiness when such ayurvedic and naturopathy

views are supported by even modern medicine practitioners.

Pediatrician are a different lot, with a true "mothers heart" in

their rib cage. A Pediatrician friend of this author, does not visit

home if a child is suffering in ward. When child becomes comfortable,

he goes home for rest.

 

Regarding fever of children, look at what a modern Indian

practitioner has to say:

 

"Fever is body's response to mostly an infection, though a variety of

other factors may induce similar reactions.

It is important to realize that fever is a beneficial response in

favour of the host. Then should fever be ever suppressed and if so

when?

In general, fever up to 102°F may be considered beneficial, safe and

not discomforting, and so may not be intervened."

These are only few of the statements, and full article is available

at

 

http://www.indmedica.com/journals.php?

journalid=3&issueid=3&articleid=38&action=article

 

[Copy and paste in browser window for successful access]

 

Author salutes such practitioners, even if they are followers of

modern medicine!

 

Dr Bhate

 

 

ayurveda, Jagannath Chatterjee

<jagchat01> wrote:

>

> The places where the toxin gathers are always places of high

nervous activity. And when we think where such places are located,

we realise that they are, of course, mostly in the upper half of the

body, especially from the neck upwards. With the brain as the

centre, they also include the eyes, the ears, the nose and the mouth,

and it is in these places that the toxin concentrates, once it has

solidified around the neck.

>

> When this hardening reaches a certain degreee, there occurs a

process of natural discharge, that is, a process of purification. In

this phase, the solidified toxin is melted by a rise in temperature

and becomes a liquid. This liquid is eliminated from the body by

means of a cough, phlegm, nasal discharge, perspiration, diarrhea,

fever or urine. This is what we term a cold.

>

> A cold, therefore, is a process of elimination of poisons. If

you put up with the slight discomfort patiently and trust yourself to

Nature, the poison will be discharged with no problems, the inside of

your body will be purified and you will arrive at that state of good

health which means that you are truly cured. A cold is a very simple

form of natural regulation. It is God's Providence. People who do

not realise this and don't give heartfelt thanks to God, instead

interpret the significance of the discomfort of the purification in a

negative way and decide that they should try to end it. This way of

thinking brings about medical science, that great source of error.

>