我們該吃什麼：選擇正確的食物非常重要

最新 04-14

To choose the right fuel, Sadhguru explains, you must know what kind of machine you are. He discusses many aspects of eating for health and vitality, but warns us not to make food into a religion. Just eat sensibly!

如果把你比作一台機器，薩古魯說，要選擇正確的燃油，你首先得知道自己是什麼類型的機器。薩古魯討論了關於如何為健康與活力而選擇正確的飲食方式的話題，但也提醒我們不要將食物當成一種信仰。只要做到理性飲食就好。

Sadhguru:Every few years, a different theory emerges on what kinds of foods to eat, and there are a whole lot of people who follow it religiously. People talk about 「veganism」! We shouldn』t be making food a religion. It is not about what you or someone else believes. It is about eating sensibly.

薩古魯：每過幾年，總會有各種各樣關於吃的理論冒出來，而且有不少人會嚴格地遵循這些理論。人們開始談論「素食主義」！我們不應該將食物變成一種宗教信仰。食物不該是你或其他人信仰的東西，只要理性地對待就好。

In the yogic culture, we always consume cooked food within 1.5 hours after it comes off the stove. If it』s any later, inertia will set in.

在瑜伽文化中，我們總是在食物出爐後1.5小時內就吃完它。如果超過這個時間，惰性成分就會出現。

The first thing to remember is that essentially, food is fuel. If you want to refuel your car, you go to the gas station and choose the appropriate fuel for this particular machine, in order to achieve optimal performance. You could put kerosene into your car and it would actually drive, but it may smoke and cough, and you may not be able to accelerate as you want. This is the situation with most people when it comes to their food choices. To choose the appropriate fuel, you need to know what type of machine you are.

需要記住的第一件事就是，食物就是燃料。如果你要給你的車加油，你會去加油站並且選擇適合的汽油，以便達到最佳性能。你也可以在你的車裡加入煤油，那樣你的車也能開動，但它會冒煙，會踉蹌，而且你想要加速時也不能如願。這就像是大多數人選擇食物時的情況。如果要選擇適合的油，你需要知道自己是一台什麼樣的機器。

Ensure that the food you eat is fresh

確保你吃進去的食物是新鮮的

Eating properly is an important aspect of health. If you are interested in your wellbeing and that of your children, you must ensure that the food you eat is fresh. The average American eats processed food that has been prepared three or six months ago. In the yogic culture, we always consume cooked food within 1.5 hours after it comes off the stove. If it』s any later, inertia will set in. If you eat food that creates inertia in the system, you will lose all your dynamism. There is also a correlation between the kind of food you eat and the amount of sleep you need. Generally, doctors advise that everyone must sleep a minimum of eight hours. If you sleep eight hours per night, it means you are sleeping one third of your life.

吃得合理對身體健康來說是一個很重要的方面。如果你關心自己和孩子的健康，你必須要確保你吃進去的食物是新鮮的。大多數美國人吃的加工過的食物，在3-6個月之前就已經在開始製作了。在瑜伽文化中，我們總是在食物出鍋後的1.5小時內就把它們吃完。一旦超過這個時間，食物中就會產生惰性成分。如果你吃掉的食物在你的身體系統中產生惰性成分，你就會失去你所有的活力。你吃的食物的種類也會影響到你需要的睡眠多少。一般而言，醫生會建議每個人最少的睡眠時間為8小時。如果你每天晚上都睡8個小時，那意味著你人生的1/3時間你都在睡覺。

People are writing whole books on how everyone must sleep eight hours, and warn of dire consequences if you don』t. These days, I am getting a little lazy and sleep for four hours. But earlier, for twenty-five years, I used to sleep less than three hours per day, and I am healthy. The body needs restfulness, not sleep. One important factor of how much sleep you need is what type of fuel you put into your system. If you put the wrong fuel into your car, it will need a lot of servicing. Similarly, if you put the wrong fuel into your system, it will need a lot of sleep.

有人寫了整整一本書闡述為什麼每個人都需要8小時睡眠，並且警告人們如果你不這麼做，你將會有多麼可怕的後果。這些日子以來，我感覺有點懶，每天要睡4個小時。但是早些年，差不多有25年的時間，我通常每天只睡不到3個小時，而依然能夠保持健康。身體需要的是休息，不是睡眠。決定你需要多長時間睡眠的一個重要因素在於你給予身體系統什麼燃料。如果你給你的車加了錯誤的油，它就會需要很多維修。同樣的，如果你給你的身體系統錯誤的食物原料，它就會需要大量的睡眠。

There are many aspects that need to be considered in this context. One important factor is that you may be eating food that has a high level of inertia in it. We classify foods as rajas, tamas, or sattva. Tamas means inertia. If you eat food that has the quality of inertia to it, then how can you be active? If you eat dull food, it will make you dull.

還有一些面需要被考慮進來。一個很重要的因素是，你吃的食物中很可能含有很多惰性成分。我們將食物分為悅性食物、惰性食物以及中性食物。惰性食物就是那些含有惰性成分的食物。如果你吃的食物具有惰性成分，那麼你又怎麼可能很有活力？如果你吃的是遲鈍的食物，它便會讓你也變得遲鈍。

Eat What』s Far From You

吃那些在基因上離你最遠的食物

Your body is just an accumulation of the food that you have eaten, after it has been transformed and assimilated. There is a certain intelligence, memory, and genetic code in the body that determines what the food that you eat is converted into. For example, the same apple, depending on who eats it, becomes part of the body of a woman, a man, or a cow.

你的身體只是你吃進去的食物的累積，當食物被吸收和轉化之後，它們就變成你的身體。身體內的智能、記憶和基因代碼決定了食物會轉化成什麼。舉個例子，同一個蘋果，因為吃它的主體不同，將會變成不同性質的身體——女人、男人或是一頭牛。

In the yogic tradition, we always said you must eat what is furthest away from you, genetically. In that sense, plant life is furthest away from us.

在瑜伽傳統中，我們總是說你必須吃那些在基因上離你最遠的食物。在這個層面上說，植物是離我們最遠的。

As life evolves, the information and memory an organism carries get increasingly complex. In the yogic tradition, we always said you must eat what is furthest away from you, genetically. In that sense, plant life is furthest away from us. If you must eat non-vegetarian food, we advised the consumption of fish, because among the animals, it is furthest away from a human being, if you look at it from an evolutionary perspective. As the first animal life on the planet is thought to have evolved in water, the first avatara was matsya avatara or the fish.

在生命進化過程中，一個生物體所攜帶的信息和記憶會變得越來越複雜。在瑜伽傳統中，我們總是說你必須吃那些在基因上離你最遠的食物。在這個層面上說，植物是離我們最遠的。如果你必須吃非素食食物，我建議你吃魚。因為從進化角度上看，魚是所有動物中離人類最遠的食物。因為地球上最早的動物生命被認為是從水中進化而來，最早的祖先就是魚形的祖先。

After a century of saying the best thing to eat is meat, doctors in the West are slowly shifting to a different view today. For some time now, they have been saying that beef is the main cause for most of the cardiac ailments in America. And in the last few years, they are also saying that meat consumption is a cause for cancer. In the yogic culture, we have been telling you for ten thousand years that if you eat foods with a complex genetic code, your system will break down, one way or the other. We arrived at that not by doing million-dollar research, but just by observing what happens in our system when we eat. If you pay enough attention, you will know. Every creature does. A dog just knows what to eat and what not. Human beings do not know because they go by whatever information someone gives them, not by awareness of life.

在宣傳肉類是最好的食物一百年之後，西方的學者們在今天慢慢地將觀點轉換到了一個完全相反的方向上。一段時間來，他們都說牛肉是現在美國心臟疾病的主要誘因。而在過去的幾年中，他們也發表言論說肉食會導致癌症。在瑜伽文化中，我們已經傳播了一萬年這個觀點：如果你吃那些帶有複雜基因代碼的食物，你的身體系統就會垮掉，以這樣或那樣的方式。我們得到這個觀點並不是通過去做數百萬經費的研究，而是通過觀察當我們在吃東西的時候，我們的身體系統中發生了什麼。如果你付出足夠多的注意力，你也會知道這些。每一個生命都可以知道。一隻狗都知道該吃什麼，不該吃什麼。人類不知道這些，是因為人們只是按照別人給出的信息去生活，而不是通過對生命的覺知。

So, do not make food some kind of a religion. If it is a question of survival, eat what is available. But when survival is taken care of, there is a choice. When you have a choice, you must eat sensibly, what is best for your system. The ideal fuel for your body is what leaves you alert, agile, and active. You could experiment. One day, just eat fruits; another day, just eat raw vegetables; yet another day, you cook the vegetables; then you eat fish, you eat meat – try out everything. With what kind of food you are experiencing maximum levels of energy and alertness, please eat that, and you will be healthy.

所以，不要將食物當成某種信仰。如果生存是一個問題，那麼就去吃任何你能得到的食物。但當生存的問題已經解決，那就有了選擇。當你有選擇的機會，你必須吃得理性，吃那些對你的身體系統最有益的東西。對你的身體來說，最理想的燃料是那些會帶給你警覺、靈活和活力的食物。你可以做一個實驗。在某一天，只是吃水果；另外的一天，只是吃生的蔬菜；另外的一天，吃熟的蔬菜；然後再選一天吃魚和肉——嘗試一下這些選擇。看看什麼樣的食物讓你感受到最大程度的活力與覺察力，然後吃它們，你就會健康。

When Not to Eat

什麼時候不該吃東西

In any case, especially when you eat too much, it is good to fast once in a way. But if you forcefully go without food, this may cause damage to the system. If you want to fast, you have to prepare psychologically and physiologically, so that you can effortlessly go without food. We have identified certain days of the lunar month when digestion is not at its best. On these two days in the month, known as Ekadashi, which is the eleventh day after the full and new moons, it is best to have only light food or to fast entirely.

在任何情況下，尤其是你吃得太多的時候，禁食一次在某種程度上是好的。但是如果你是強迫自己不吃東西，那會破壞你的身體系統。如果你想要禁食，你需要在生理和心理上都做好準備，這樣你才能毫不費力地不吃東西。我們已經指出過，在太陰月中的幾天，消化功能不在最佳狀態。在這個月中的這兩天——也就是我們所說的Ekadashi（愛卡達西日斷食日），在滿月日和新月日後的第11天——最好的方式是只吃清淡易消化食物，或者徹底禁食。

Ekadashi was built into your system. So, if you can fast, please do. If that is not possible for you, go on a fruit diet, which is referred to as palahar. Unfortunately, in Tamil, pala means 「many,」 so Tamil people tend to think that on Ekadashi, they must eat many varieties of things! So they eat a wide variety of snacks, which is worse than the regular food they otherwise eat. No, palahar means fruit diet. The idea is, if you cannot fast, have something that is easily digestible.

愛卡達西已在你的系統中。因此，如果你可以禁食，那麼就去做。如果對你來說，還沒達到這樣的能力，那麼就吃「水果飲食」，也就是我們通常所說的「palahar」。不幸的是，在泰米爾語里，「pala」的意思是「很多」，所以泰米爾人會認為在斷食日里，他們必須吃很多種東西！所以他們吃各種各樣的零食，而這是比我們的日常飲食更糟糕的。不是他們理解的那樣，「palahar」指的是「水果飲食」。它的意思就是說，當你還無法禁食時，就吃些好消化的食物。

If you eat cooked meat, it will take forty-eight to fifty-two hours. If you eat raw meat, it will take seventy-two hours to digest it.

如果你吃了熟肉，需要48小時到52小時才能消化。如果你吃了生肉，需要72小時去消化它。

If you eat a fruit, within 1.5 to three hours』 time, it will be fully digested. If you eat cooked vegetables, it will take twelve to fifteen hours to digest them. If you eat cooked cereals and other foods, it will take twenty-four to thirty hours. If you eat cooked meat, it will take forty-eight to fifty-two hours. If you eat raw meat, it will take seventy-two hours to digest it. When food remains in the system for such long periods of time, it will rot and cause unnecessary levels of bacteria. With such food choices, you are causing damage to the system. And then you believe you need medicines, rather than living healthy. You need pharmaceutical products because you are generating poison within yourself.

如果你吃了水果，在1.5小時到3小時的時間內，它會被完全消化。如果你吃了熟的蔬菜，它需要12到14小時的時間去消化。如果你吃了熟的穀類或其他類別的食物，它們需要24到30小時的消化時間。如果是熟肉，則需要48到52小時的時間用於消化，生肉的話，則需要72小時用於消化。當食物在身體系統中停留那麼長的時間，它會腐爛併產生對人體有害的程度的細菌。如果做出這樣的食物選擇，你就是在給你的身體系統搞破壞。然後你就會相信你需要藥物，而不是活得健康。你需要配方葯，因為你自己在給自己製造有毒物質。

What you put into your system can make a big difference. To give an example – when I drive in the United States, I make sure I never go to a gas station that has ethanol gasoline. When they first introduced ethanol gasoline about twelve years ago, I said, 「I don』t want to put ethanol in my car because the engine is going to rust.」 You do not have to be some brilliant scientist to arrive at that – it is just common sense. Now, after it has been used for twelve years, they finally admit it may cause corrosion of the engine. You just have to pay attention to how things work. Most people do not pay attention to anything. For everything, they need a prescription.

你讓自己的身體系統攝入什麼食物會造成很大的不同。舉個例子，當我在美國開車時，我從來不去有乙醇汽油的加油站。大約12年前，當他們第一次介紹這種汽油給我時，我說：「我不想在我的汽車中放入乙醇，因為那會使我的引擎生鏽。」你不需要是一個多麼出色的科學家也能知道這一點，因為這是常識。現在，當他們使用這種汽油12年後，他們終於承認，那會使引擎生鏽腐蝕了。你其實只需要關注事物都是如何運作就可以。大多數人什麼也不關注，對於所有事物，他們都需要被指示才知道怎麼做。

If you have been eating the wrong kind of food for too long, the body may have become so lethargic and dense that you cannot notice anything. In that case, fasting will give you a break. It is time we teach people how to pay attention to what is happening in their system. Just ask yourself – is it working well right now or not? This is a simple way to know.

如果你很長時間以來一直在吃錯誤的食物，你的身體就會變得無精打采而沉重，你很難注意到任何事物。在那樣的情況下，禁食可以給你一個休整的機會。是時候告訴人們去關注在你的身體系統中發生了什麼了。只是問問你自己——它運轉得正確還是錯誤？這是一個了解這個問題最簡單的方式。

Love&Grace,

Sadhguru

愛與恩典

薩古魯

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