Accumulate your virtues and improve your luck
The idea is to pile up virtues to improve your fortune. Charity donations and animal welfare don't add to the virtue. To pile up the virtues, you control the strongest “eating” desire among human desires, halving the amount of your daily meal and returning the other half to heaven.
Mizuno Namboku (1760-1834) is the person who advocated the theory that fate can be improved by eating little food. Nanboku lost his parents at an early age, and since he was a child (10 years old), he has learned to steal alcohol and has had a fight with gambling. He was put in a prison at the age of eighteen. He noticed the bad looks of the people in the prison there. And he found that there was a correlation among the facial features, food and the fate of a person.
Facial Features and Fortune
After leaving the prison, a physiognomist told Nanboku that he would die in a year from facial features and advised him to become a monk for a fate. So Nanboku asked the temple to become a monk. However, the priest told him that Nanboku's look was so bad that he would "disciple if he continued to eat only barley and soybeans for a year." He continued to eat as he was told. And finally, not only did his face disappear, but his fortune improved.
This triggered him to go physiognomy. For the first three years he studied head shape at a barber's. For the next three years he observed nude in a bathhouse. For another three years he observed the bones and bodies of the dead at the crematorium. He cut open the corpse and find that unlucky people have bad internal organs, especially the color, luster and remnants of their stomach and intestines.
Mizuno Namboku's Theory of Fate by Eating Less
From these experiences, the north and south became the leading physiognomist. He began to advocate the theory of fate by eating less. Some of his teachings are:
- People who eat and drink less than the limit are long-lived and happy in later years.
- People who eat and drink more than the limit are unhappy in their later years, even though they have a good appearance.
- People who eat different amounts at different times always have a lot of ups and downs in their lives.
- People who are fat and eat a lot of alcohol and meat are unhappy in later years.
- You can eat as much green vegetables as you like.
- Do not eat unless you have a good appetite.
- Try to get up early.
Luigi Cornaro（1464-1566) was influential aristocrat of the Republic of Venice (also a politician). He was a rich and gourmet, as opposed to Mizuno Namboku. However, his way of gaining of longevity, health, intelligence and rich relationships is same as Mizuno Namboku to reduce food intake. In the case of Cornaro, he drank about 400cc of wine a day in addition to his meal.
A short meal changed him from a short-tempered and irritable personality to a cheerful and gentle personality. Also, his mood was always filled with joy. In addition, he was able to sleep more comfortably and always had fun dreams. Moreover, even after the age of 80, he was fine, riding a horse, climbing mountains, devoting himself to public works and writing, and was never tired.
Control your Diet for your Happy Later Years
Mizuno Namboku experienced various jobs, met various people, and discovered the rules common to happy people. On the other hand, Italy's Cornaro ate a small amount of food with a menu that suits himself, and achieved perfect happiness later in his life. Their teachings are practical and full of know-how.
By all means, why not try to control your diet for your happiness in your later years? The following are the suggestions:
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