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wild grass
and
minerals
. So nature comes again to you and whispers, “Stop
thinking of things like rice bran and oil cakes. Just follow me!” True organic
farming is not about adding rice bran, perilla pulp or press cakes. Find the cor-
rect way in nature and follow it. If you want big fruits and plentiful grains from
your crops, then you cannot expect such results by providing fertilizers made
from husks, peels, skins and pulp; they are the leftovers from fruits and grains.
From the soil, you demand fruits yet you give peels! Farming does not become
organic by merely putting in organic matter into your soil. Organic matter
comes in all qualities. If you add organic matter that does not have a balanced
nutrient composition (such as pulp or husks), the overuse of it will break the nu-
trient balance in the soil. is in turn will lead to increased incidence of diseases.
Creating a nutrient imbalance is in itself a form of soil contamination.
Environment-friendly agriculture is not something you learn only from
books. e greatest book and teacher is nature; you have to be an ever-inquisi-
tive student, humble and honest. Learn from nature and “do as nature does.”
ink this over carefully. Once you accept from your heart that nature is the
greatest teacher, then farming will start becoming easy; you will inally under-
stand its secrets. Nature’s farming costs almost nothing. Large yields and high
quality will all become possible. If this radical change of thinking is not comfort-
able for you, don’t pressure yourself; just relax and have a drink!
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2. I and others are one
(自他一體)
is concept entails thinking of myself and others, my life and others’ lives,
as one. In Korean there is an expression: “our body and the soil are one (
身土不
二
).” In English, they say “you are what you eat.” My body is from the soil – it
comes from water and food that came from the soil. Crops are soil too. Crops,
soil, and I are all one. All life forms are the same. If I know myself then I also
know you. When I thoroughly understand one Dao (“Way”) then I understand
millions of other Daos. In chapter 41 of “Dao De Jing (
道德經
)”, Laozi said, “I
see the world without going out the door.”
My becoming sick and your becoming sick can be perceived through the
same lens. Crops are sometimes healthy and sometimes sick. Try to understand
them as we understand our bodies. e principle behind “my health” and the
“health of soil and crops” are inseparable. Modern humans have so many ill-
nesses afflicting their bodies. Why is this so? People think they are personally
helpless against failing health. As a result, they rely more and more on “ex-
perts” to determine what is wrong and what should be done. Let’s try under-
standing our own bodies. Let’s study ourselves to keep our own health.
Typically there are two main reasons why we lose our health. One is bad food.
Second is bad blood circulation.
Interestingly, these hold true also in farming. Why are our crops sick? Bad
fertilizer and bad circulation are the main culprits. Bad fertilizer is equivalent to
bad food. e compost that come from animal manure often contain antibiotics.
Chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides poison the soil. Excessive input of
nutritionally unbalanced fertilizers – such as press cakes – disrupt the plants’
healthy diet. Bad circulation refers to the soil compaction layer that prevents the
proper circulation of air, water and nutrients. How do we recover our health?
Change our diet to “good” food with balanced nutrition, drink enough water
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and do exercises to boost circulation. It is the same for farming and for all living
forms. Stop the use of bad fertilizers and eliminate the compacted soil layer. Your
farming will gain a new momentum. Just like we solve our health problems, use
the same approach to solve soil problems.
It is estimated that our bodies have approximately 100 trillion cells. Each cell
needs to be provided with nutrients and cleansed of waste every day. To that end,
the body is equipped with an extremely sophisticated circulatory system of veins
and arteries. Arteries deliver nutrients and oxygen to cells. Veins remove the ex-
cretions. e total length of blood vessels in a human body is approximately
96,000 km (60,000 mi) which is longer than two trips around the globe. Blood
coming from the heart cycles the body 1,000 times a day. A crucial factor deter-
mining the normal function of this circulation is an adequate absorption of
water; this is directly linked to our health. You must drink until your urine is no
longer yellow. How much water you drink is critical to how much toxins you re-
move from your system. Drinking water alone will improve your health. Bathing
and light walks will further help. e life span of our cells is said to be shorter
than six months. Every day 10 billion new cells are born. ese cells are made of
the water and food we ingest daily. Change water, change food, change your
mind; then, your body will change too. is is “natural healing.”
is is the same for plants. What you put into the soil has an enormous im-
pact on the formation of new cells in plants. e quality of water and fertilizer
will decide the crop’s health. Health is not a coincidence; healthy crops do not
come to you by chance. 70 percent of the human body is water. For our brains
and internal organs, up to 90 percent are made of water. It is safe to say over 70
percent of human health is decided by water. For plants the igures are even
higher. Water takes up around 95 percent of a plant’s structure. Just like humans
have to choose good water for optimum health, you must give good water to
your crops. Water is the starting point of all health. It is advisable that you drink
mineral water (spring water) rather than puriied water. Most of the puriied
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water that is iltered from tap water cannot sustain the life of ish. Water where
ish cannot live cannot be good for your health. For farming, I strongly suggest
you use JADAM mineral water.
Next most important to water is a
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