{"id":6896,"date":"2015-01-06T15:26:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T23:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=6896"},"modified":"2015-01-06T20:53:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T04:53:48","slug":"6896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/beautiful-people\/6896\/","title":{"rendered":"Michio Kushi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting Michio Kushi:<br \/>\n<strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Yoga breathing control is practiced to influence our thinking. The lungs correspond to our fore brain and can influence our consciousness.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/michio_kushi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/michio_kushi.jpg\" alt=\"michio_kushi\" width=\"198\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6897\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As you know macrobiotics has helped thousands of sick people; but this is kindergarten. The purpose of macrobiotics is to become free to change all of this world into what we want &#8211; unhappiness to happiness, sickness to health, war to peace, misery to love. When you attain this freedom you become the children of the Kingdom of Heaven.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/strong><br \/>\nNew York Times coverage on the passing of Michio Kushi is linked &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/05\/us\/michio-kushi-advocate-of-natural-foods-in-the-us-dies-at-88.html?emc=eta1&#038;_r=0\">Click Here.<\/a><br \/>\nPlease rest in peace&#8230; Hope to be learning from some of your students.<\/p>\n<p>We all have to die physically some day of something &#038; since I am putting away Haruki Murakami books into storage, this Murakami quote seems appropriate:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeath is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sad, yes, but he lives on &#038; I love the way he is remembered &#8211; His words quoted from his memorial page is so touching.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kushiinstitute.org\/honor-michio-kushi\/\">Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting Michio Kushi: &#8220;Yoga breathing control is practiced to influence our thinking. The lungs correspond to our fore brain and can influence our consciousness.&#8221; &#8220;As you know macrobiotics has helped thousands of sick people; but this is kindergarten. The purpose of macrobiotics is to become free to change all of this world into what we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6896"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6912,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions\/6912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}