Eating & Drinking 论饮食

接着，一位老人—他是一家酒馆的主人，说道：“请给我们谈谈饮食的事情吧。”

他于是说：

但愿你们能生活在大地的芳香中，宛如空气中的植物，生活在阳光中得以延续生命。

既然你们不得不杀生为食，从初生羔犊口里掠夺它母亲的乳汁以解你自己的干渴，那就让这成为一种膜拜吧。

在你们的砧板上立一座祭坛，让森林和平原的天真纯洁祭祀更加天真纯洁的人类吧。

当宰杀一头牲畜时，你们应在心中对它说：

“现在屠宰你的力量也将宰杀我，我也将被吞噬。
将你送到我手中的那条律法，也会把我送到更强者的手中。
你的血和我的血都只是灌溉天国之树的汁液。”

当用牙齿咀嚼苹果时，你们应在心中对它说：

“你的种子将在我的身体里存活，
你明日的蓓蕾将在我的心中绽放，
你的馨香将成为我的呼吸，
我们将欢快地共度所有的岁月。”

在秋天，当从葡萄园中采集葡萄酿酒时，你们应在心中说：

“我也是一座葡萄园，我的果实也会被采摘酿酒，就像新鲜的酒，被封在永恒的容器中。”

在冬天，当你们啜饮佳酿时，请在心中为每一杯酒献歌一曲；在歌声中想起秋天的日子、葡萄园和葡萄酒的酿制。


On Eating and Drinking

Then an old man, a keeper of an inn, said, “Speak to us of Eating and Drinking.”

And he said:

Would that you could live on the fragrance of the earth, and like an air plant be sustained by the light.

But since you must kill to eat, and rob the young of its mother’s milk to quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship.

And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.

When you kill a beast say to him in your heart,

“By the same power that slays you, I too am slain; and I too shall be consumed.
For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand.
Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.

And when you crush an apple with you teeth, say to it in your heart,

“Your seeds shall live in my body,
And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,
And your fragrance shall be my breath,
And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.”

And in the autumn, when you gather the grapes of your vineyards for the winepress, say in your heart,

“I too am a vineyard, and my fruit shall be gathered for the winepress, and like new wine I shall be kept in eternal vessels.”

And in winter, when you draw the wine, let there be in your heart a song for each cup;

And let there be in the song a remembrance for the autumn days, and for the vineyard, and for the winepress.