薩古魯談為什麼水果飲食對你和地球有益？

Question: Sadhguru, you have said that our psychological situation can be influenced by what we eat. Medical science is talking about how a fruit diet promotes psychological wellness. Is there any significance to this? And is a predominantly fruit diet okay for people in regular situations involving work, family or lots of physical activity?

問：薩古魯，你曾說過，我們的心理狀況會被我們所吃的食物影響。醫學科學正在討論水果飲食如何促進心理健康。這有什麼重要性嗎？對於那些要處理日常工作、家庭生活和從事大量體力活動的人來說，主食水果真的好嗎？

Sadhguru: In any machine, with any kind of fuel that we use, the efficacy of the fuel essentially depends on how easily it burns. For example, the kind of gasoline you use for a regular automobile is different from what you use in a race car or an airplane because of how easily it burns. You might have seen the octane levels in gas stations – eighty-seven, eighty-nine, ninety, ninety-one, ninety-three, ninety-six. When we were riding motorcycles, we would pay three times and buy hundred octane because suddenly the motorcycle performs in a way that others cannot.

Sadhguru（薩古魯）：在任何機器中，我們使用的燃料的效能本質上取決於它的易燃度，例如，普通汽車所用的汽油與賽車或飛機使用的是不同的。你可能已經在加油站見過辛烷值——87、89、90、91、93、96。當我們騎摩托車時，我們可能會付三倍的價錢買100辛烷值的汽油，因為摩托車會突然以超出尋常的方式行駛。

Fruit Diets Are Easy on Digestion

水果飲食很容易消化

Similarly, the most easily digestible food is fruit. Digestion means jataragni – the digestive fires. If these fires have to burn most effectively, fruit is definitely the best thing. Unfortunately, a lot of people enjoy lethargy and inertia. Life has not touched them so they enjoy a part of them being dead. Sleep, intoxication, overeating and just lying down feels better than being alive, active and dynamic. Fruit may be a problem only for such a person because it will keep you alert and awake. It does not keep you intoxicated, unless it ferments of course! And one can know an extreme sense of joy, intoxication and a deep pleasure out of heightened levels of awareness also. But now the question is, can I eat fruit and still be normal?

同樣的，最容易消化的食物是水果。消化意味著jataragni——消化之火。若要這「火」最有效地燃燒，水果絕對是最好的。不幸的是，很多人喜歡昏睡和惰性。生命還未觸及他們，所以他們享受部分死亡的狀態。比起活躍積極的狀態，他們更享受睡眠、醉酒、飲食過量或只是躺著。只有對這樣的人，水果可能會是一個問題，因為它會讓你保持警覺和清醒。它不會讓你醉，當然除非它發酵了。然而，一個人也可以在高度的覺知中體驗到極度的歡欣、沉醉和愉悅感。現在的問題是，我可以吃水果並仍然保持正常嗎？

A Fruit Diet is What Nature Intended

水果飲食是自然的本意

A simple answer is in your general practice of life itself. Suppose you are ill in a hospital bed, no one will bring you chicken biryani. They will bring fruits because your friends and relatives understand, 「You got sick eating all that. At least now, eat sensibly.」

一個簡單的答案就在你的日常生活中。假設你生病躺在醫院的床上，沒人會給你帶咖喱雞肉飯。他們會帶水果，因為你的朋友和親人懂得，「你是因為吃了那些東西生病了。至少現在，要合理飲食。」

You know, even Adam started with a fruit. Fruit is one aspect that nature itself intends to be food. The seed is the important part of the mango. The flesh is only a draw, a lure so that animals and birds will go for it and carry the seed somewhere far away.

你知道，就連亞當也是從水果開始的。水果是大自然有意作為食物的一個表現。種子是芒果的重要組成部分。果肉只是一種吸引、一個誘餌，以便動物和鳥類來尋找它並將種子帶向遠方。

Seasonally, there are a variety of fruits. It is incredible that those kinds of fruits which the land produces at a certain time are most suitable for the system. There has been a lot of study about this – how for those seasons when it is cold, when it is hot, when the moisture is very high, then the right kind of fruit comes out of the earth if you are eating from that area. But now you are eating fruit that comes from New Zealand. This is another matter. If you are eating from the land around you, you will see that the right kind of fruit is coming to you at the right season. It is the best thing to eat at that time.

有很多季節性的水果。不可思議的是，大地在特定時間產出的那些水果恰恰對系統是最適合的。有很多關於這方面的研究——當氣象寒冷時、炎熱時，應該相應地吃什麼；當濕度很高時，會有對應的水果從土地裡出來——如果你吃的是本地食物的話。但是現在，你吃的水果來自紐西蘭。這是另一個問題。如果你吃的東西來自附近的土地，你會看到對的水果在對的季節來到你面前。這是那個時候可以吃的最好的東西。

Precautions When You Go On a Fruit Diet

水果餐的注意事項

Fruit can do miraculous things to the body. One can become very alive and active, no matter what your lifestyle is. But if you are in a very physically-demanding kind of job – for example, if you are digging outside every day, not with a machine but physically, and doing very hard work – then you may find yourself getting hungry every two hours. There is only that much volume of fruit you can eat, but it gets digested so rapidly that your stomach may feel empty.

水果可以給身體帶來奇蹟。不管你的生活方式如何，水果可以讓一個人可以變得非常活躍和積極。但如果你從事的是體力勞動，例如，你每天在戶外挖掘，不是用機器，而是身體勞作，並且工作繁重，那麼你會發現自己每兩個小時就會餓。你一次只能吃一定量的水果，但很快就消化了，你的胃就感覺很空。

Whether you want to use your brainpower or be engaged in physical activity, fruit will work perfectly well.

不論你需要用腦力還是體力，水果都很適合。

If you go on a total fruit diet, you may have to spend a little more time at lunch and eat slowly, so that you ingest enough fruit. You may feel full even with a little fruit because it is generally sweet, so you have to wait and slowly eat. There is also a bio-clock within us. Let us say you were taking ten to twelve minutes to eat your normal cooked meal. Even if you eat fruit, when you reach ten to twelve minutes, your body will say you have eaten enough. So you have to consciously eat more because the body is not looking at the fill, it is just timing you.

如果你隻吃水果餐，你可能要多花一些時間吃午餐，吃慢一點，以便你吸取足夠多的水果。你可能吃一點水果就會感覺很飽，因為它通常是甜的，所以你需要等待並吃慢一些。我們體內也有個生物鐘。假設說你一般用10到12分鐘吃你烹飪過的食物。那麼即使你改為吃水果，當你吃了10到12分鐘時，你的身體會說你已經吃夠了。所以你需要有意識地多吃，因為身體看的不是吃了什麼，它只是在給你計時。

If you are only on fruit diet and physically very active, you may need to bring three meals into your day. If you are sleeping six or eight hours, for the remaining sixteen to eighteen hours, eating three times is more than enough if you are eating fruit. But the stomach will feel empty within two hours, so you must get used to hanging on with high energy but an empty stomach. This is the time your brain works best and you as a human being function best.

如果你隻吃水果，並且體力活動多，你可能需要一天吃三餐。如果你睡6-8個小時，對於剩下的16-18個小時，即便吃水果，吃三次都足夠了。但是胃會在兩個小時之內就感覺餓，所以你必須要習慣高能量而空腹的狀態。這是你大腦工作最佳的時候，也是你作為一個人運行最佳的時候。

Whether you want to use your brainpower or be engaged in physical activity, fruit will work perfectly well. But you do not know what the fruit that you get in the market today is filled with. That is a little bit of a problem. I clearly notice this: the kind of country fruits that we used to eat when we were young are not the same as the farm-grown fruits that are coming to us today. They are much bigger, rounder and better-looking, but this is like Botox!

不論你是想進行腦力還是體力活動，水果都會很適合。但你不知道你今天從市場得到的水果被什麼充斥著。這是一個問題。我清楚地注意到了這個問題：我們以前吃的農村的水果和現在吃的農場生產的水果是不同的。現在的更大、更圓、更好看，但看起來就像肉毒桿菌！

I can clearly feel it does not have the same level of strength and aliveness in it. These fruits are essentially made for the market, not for the man. This does not mean that they are totally a waste, but they do not have the same nutrient that they used to have, so we may have to fortify it with some amount of other food.

我可以很清楚地感到裡面沒有同等的能量和活力。這些水果是為市場生產的，不是為了人。這不意味著它們完全是浪費，但它們確實沒有過去的營養，所以我們可能還需要一定量的其他食物來增強。

A Fruit Diet is Good for the Planet

水果飲食對這個星球有益

Above all, it is ecologically a very sensible way to eat. Everyone should turn at least thirty percent fruity – that is, at least thirty percent of your diet should become fruit. If thirty percent of your food comes from trees, not from ploughed land and crop, ecologically it will make a huge difference for the world.

最重要的是，從生態學的角度，這也是很明智的飲食方式。每個人都至少應該有百分之三十是水果——也就是說，你的飲食應該至少百分之三十是水果。如果你食物的百分之三十是從樹上來的，而不是來自耕地和農作物，從生態學上來說，它將為這個世界帶來巨大的不同。

If you are trying to shift from heavy meat eating to fruit, then you may find it is like you have eaten nothing because you are used to being pulled down to the earth by eating very heavy food. You will anyway be pulled down to the earth when you die. But right now, we call it life when we spring out as if we do not belong to the earth. Even the bird that soars is made of earth, but when it is soaring up there it does not look like earth. Every life, when it springs out, it should not look like earth, though we are of the earth.

如果你正嘗試從肉類轉變成水果，你可能會感覺好像沒有吃東西似的，因為你習慣了被過去吃的很重的食物拉向地面。不管怎樣，當你死的時候你都會被拉回大地。但現在，我們冒出來時，我們被稱為「生命」，就好像我們不屬於大地似的。即便高翔的鳥兒也是來自大地的，但當它飛翔時，它看起來可不像土地。每一個生命，當它冒出來的時候，它不應該看起來像土地，儘管我們是屬於大地的。

If we want to spring up, the fuel that we consume must be that which burns quickly and is very easily flammable. That is the best food. In our stomach, without doubt, fruit is what burns up quickest. This means it has the least amount of residue and puts the least amount of tax and stress on the system.

如果我們想起飛，我們消耗的燃料必須能夠輕易、快速地燃燒。那就是最好的食物。毫無疑問的，對我們的胃來說，水果是燃燒最快的。這意味著最少的殘留物，以及對系統最少的負擔與壓力。

Love&Grace

愛與恩典