Question: What is the benefit of eating a vegetarian diet and how it can be easily implemented in a person’s life?
Sadhguru: What kind of food you eat should depend not on what you think about it, or on your values and ethics, but on what the body wants. Food is about the body. When it comes to food, don’t ask your doctors or your nutrition experts because these people keep changing their opinion every five years. When it comes to food, ask the body with what kind of food it is really happy. Try different foods and see how your body feels after eating the food. If your body feels very agile, energetic and nice, that means the body is happy. If the body feels lethargic and needs to be pumped up with caffeine or nicotine to stay awake, the body is not happy, isn’t it?
萨古鲁：你该吃什么样的食物，并非取决于你对食物的看法或者价值观、伦理观，而是取决于你身体的需要。食物对身体至关重要。说起食物，不要咨询你的医生或营养专家，因为他们每隔五年就会改变他们的看法。问问自己的身体，它吃什么样的食物时是真正高兴的。尝试不同的食物，看看你的身体在吃这个食物后有什么样的感受。如果你的身体感觉敏捷，精力十足、感觉很好，那么说明身体是愉悦的。如果你的身体感到困倦无力，需要咖啡因或者尼古丁来提神，那么你的身体是不愉悦的，是不是这样？
If you listen to your body, your body will clearly tell you with what kind of food it is happy. But right now, you are listening to your mind. Your mind keeps lying to you all the time. Hasn’t it lied to you before? Today it tells you this is it. Tomorrow it makes you feel like a fool for what you believed yesterday. So don’t go by your mind. You just have to learn to listen to your body.
如果你倾听身体的声音，你的身体会很清晰地告诉你它喜欢什么样的食物。但是现在，你听从的是你的头脑。你的头脑一直都在欺骗你，它以前就欺骗过你吧？今天它告诉你这是正确的，明天就会让你觉得自己有多么傻，昨天竟然相信了它。因此，不要跟着你的头脑走，你只需学会倾听你的身体。
Every animal, every creature knows what to eat and what not to eat. The human species are supposed to be the most intelligent on the planet, but they don’t even know what to eat. Forget about how to be, human beings do not even know what to eat. So, it takes a certain mindfulness and attention to learn to listen to your body. Once you have that, you know what to eat and what not to eat.
每一个动物、每一个生物都知道该吃什么不该吃什么，人类本应是这颗星球上最聪明的物种，但是他们现在竟然不知道该吃什么。先不要说如何生活，人类甚至还不清楚自己应该吃什么。因此，学习去听懂身体的声音，是需要投入一定程度的觉察与关注的。一旦你听懂了身体的声音，你就会清楚什么应该吃、什么不该吃。
Just experiment and see, when you eat vegetarian food in its live form, what a difference it will make.
试试看，当你吃可以生吃的素食时会有什么不同。
In terms of the quality of food that is entering you, definitely vegetarian food is far better for the system than non-vegetarian. We are not looking at it from a moral standpoint. We are just looking at what is suitable for the system – we try to eat foods which would make you comfortable in the body. Whether you want to do your business properly or study properly or do any activity properly, it is extremely important that your body is at ease. So, the kind of food with which your body would be most at ease and would not struggle to get nourishment out of, that is the kind of food we should eat.
就进入你身体里的食物的质量而言，毫无疑问，素食远比荤食对身体更有益处。我们不是从道德的角度来看待这个问题的，我们只是看什么对身体系统适宜——我们要尝试吃那些让我们的身体感到舒服的食物。不管你是想要顺利地做生意，还是顺利地学习，或者顺利地做任何一件事情，极为重要的是你的身体必须处于自在的状态。所以，让你的身体最舒适自在并且毫不费劲就能从中摄取营养的食物就是我们该吃的。
Just experiment and see, when you eat vegetarian food in its live form, what a difference it will make. The idea is to eat as much live food as possible – whatever can be consumed in its aliveness. A live cell has everything to sustain life. If you consume a live cell, you will see the sense of health in your system will be very different from anything that you have known. When we cook the foods, it destroys the life in it. Eating foods after its process of destruction does not give the same amount of life energy to the system. But when you eat live foods, it brings a different level of aliveness in you. If one eats lots of sprouts, fruit, and whatever vegetables that can be eaten in a live condition, if you bring in at least thirty to forty percent live food – things that are alive – you will see, it will sustain the life within you also very well.
试试看，当你吃可以生吃的素食时会有什么不同。这种吃法在于吃尽可能多的生素食——只要是可以生吃的。一个活生生的的细胞具有维持生命的一切物质。如果你吃活的细胞，你能感受到你系统里的健康状况会比你所认知的都大不同。当我们烹煮食物，里面的生命因素就会遭到破坏。吃破坏了的食物不能给系统提供同样数量的生命能量。但是我们吃活着的食物（指可以生吃的素食），会给你带来不同水平的活力。如果你吃大量的嫩芽、水果和任何可以生吃的蔬菜，如果你摄入的食物30%-40%是生的——活生生的食物——你会发现，它会很好地维持你的生命。
Above all, the food that you eat is life. It is other forms of life that we are eating – the other forms of lives are giving up their life to sustain our life. If we can eat with enormous gratitude for all the living things which give up their life to sustain our lives, then the food will behave in a very different way within you.
重要的是，你吃的食物也是生命。我们吃进去的是其它形式的生命——其它形式的生命正放弃自己的生命来供养我们的生命。如果我们进食时能怀着巨大的感激，感激所有那些为供养我们的生命而放弃自己生命的生物，那么，食物在你体内会以一种截然不同的方式运作了。
Love&Grace,
Sadhguru
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