According to Tibetan belief, our body is a gift of life and we have to preserve and respect it since it is considered to be the temple of our spirit.
In Tibetan medicine, cancer is seen as a disease of the spirit that must be corrected. Of course, in our materialist world, dominated by dogmatic medicine, disease and cancer are only physical diseases that need to be treated with toxic agents. They don’t even consider the support of a nutritional or anticancer diet using natural organic food, rich in nutrients and other anticancer agents.
In oriental medicine, food can have a relationship not only with the power of nature, but also with the rules of the cosmos. For example, if you have cancer and you choose to adopt the macrobiotic food diet, which is based on the laws of the Universe, the diet is formed by the order of Yin and Yang; two opposite forces.
When sick, each individual is either too yin or too yang, depending on his/her physical constitution and mind. According to the yin/yang principal, this has to be corrected by food. If you choose a macrobiotic diet, the food is related to the yin/yang principals and order in the cosmos. Thus, your mind and diet are functioning with philosophical principles that are in harmony with the cosmos.
If you choose only natural organic food you may believe that you eat the food of mother-nature. Healing food not only contain nutrients, but also the energy that they stockpiled from the sun and the earth. So eating food must be associated with a strong belief that goes behind nutritional needs and other anticancer agents. Also, with the conviction that we are not only physical, but also have a mind that needs to be activated or opened. Anyone can change, view disease differently, and learn how to treat themselves. It’s just that sometimes they need some experience or an example how to open the mind to other concepts of life.
One day in London, after arriving to speak at a conference, I stopped by a Japanese library. 99% of their books were in Japanese, but by luck, I found a very interesting book called “GENMAI- Brown Rice For Better Health,” by Eiwan Ishida.
My first impression being - the title of the book could have been different because it was just about the value of eating brown rice for health and disease; but also with a spiritual philosophy that included an explanation about the Universe, human creation, and a description of the macrobiotic theory.
The author was a simple man who believed in western medicine. He had been sick all year round, constantly taking drugs. When his new baby girl was born, she was also sickly and could not accept any solid food or milk and was vomiting. All the best medicine in Japan was unable to diagnose any disease or problem. Since no disease was diagnosed, no treatment could be prescribed. The man was so disappointed with the verdict from modern medicine, he started to investigate for himself. One day he found a leaflet from the Institute of Macrobiotics, in Tokyo. After reading it, he decided to make an appointment with one of their doctors.
After receiving advice on how to prepare milk from brown rice, he observed, for the first time, his baby girl no longer vomited her food. His baby daughter was cured and the man changed his life. This became a real philosophy of humanity, because he wrote this marvelous book, through which I also learned. What was even more interesting is that in the foreword he wrote the following: