Saturday 31st January 2015, Northfield, Ohio, Macrobiotic Cooking Class
$40, 10am to 2 pm. Kushi Institute Counselor, Janet Vitt Sommer
"We have to practice eating in such a way that will retain compassion in our heart. We have to eat in mindfulness. Otherwise we will be eating the flesh of our children." Thich Nhat Hahn, global peace leader in the Zen Buddhist tradition. http://plumvillage.org/
"We have to practice eating in such a way that will retain compassion in our heart. We have to eat in mindfulness. Otherwise we will be eating the flesh of our children." Thich Nhat Hahn, global peace leader in the Zen Buddhist tradition. http://plumvillage.org/
Janet Vitt Sommer
Counselor with the world famous Kushi Institute, Center for natural Healing, located in Eastern Massachusetts, offers Macrobiotic Cooking Classes and counseling in Northfield Ohio. Learn to cook macrobiotic for the winter.
Saturday, 31 January 2015
10 am to 2 pm
893 Spicer Lane, Northfield, Ohio 44067.
$40 a session
Janet Vitt Sommer is a counselor at the world renowned Kushi Institute of Macrobiotics located in Massachusetts, http://www.kushiinstitute.org/about-the-kushi-institute/, a twenty year lung cancer survivor, RN, and has spoken at that US National Institute of Health about her experience with macrobiotics. She has been on the macrobiotic diet for twenty years and cured herself of lung cancer with the macrobiotic diet. She has been teaching macrobiotic cooking for twenty years in her home in Northfield, Ohio and advocating for a healthier food system.
In Columbus, Ohio Call Maria Whittaker at 913 945 1333 for more information or to attend. Outside Columbus, OH call Janet directly at +13304676739.
What is a macrobiotic diet? It is essentially a traditional Japanese diet. The Japanese have been the healthiest and longest lived people in the world until now. A Macrobiotic diet recommends 50% vegetables, 25% beans, lentils, nuts seeds, fish, tempeh, seitan and other sources of protein and 25% whole grains such as millet, barley, buckwheat and brown rice as well as many condiments, side dishes, some seaweeds and a small amount of fruit. Organic food without pesticides and herbicides are recommended as well. At Plum Village in France, where the Hamlets grow some of their own food, it is the macrobiotic diet that is primarily eaten there although at Plum Village, the nuns and monks do not eat meat of any kind out of compassion for animals. At Plum Village as well, only some of the food is organically grown.
In a book about our environment, The World We Have, Thich Nhat Hahn, global peace leader in the Zen Buddhist tradition, writes passionately about what and how we should eat. He has also spoken movingly about this topic in many dharma talks and has written a book entitled How to Eat.
In the World We have, beloved Thay, as THich Nhat Hahn is known by his students, writes, quoting the Buddha that: "We have to practice eating in such a way that will retain compassion in our heart. We have to eat in mindfulness. Otherwise we will be eating the flesh of our children."
Thay recounts a story to by the Buddha, the Sutra on the Son's Flesh, where a family traveling mindlessly across the desert decides to kill their own little son and eat his flesh in order to stay alive when they run our of food due to lack of adequate preparation. In this Sutra shares Thay, the Buddha teaches us how to practice mindful consumption in order to preserve our future.
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