From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Learning about the Large Intestine using the Chinese Organ Clock, Part II

31 July 2008 Organ systems

In the first part of this post on the Large Intestine organ system, we discussed some basic information including:  the name and official related to LI, the five element and six conformation designation and more.  In this post, I’d like to dig a little deeper into the symbolism of this important organ system.  In particular, [...]

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Learning about the Large Intestine through the Chinese medicine organ clock, Part I

30 July 2008 Organ systems

This post is part of a series of articles discussing the symbolism of the organ systems of Chinese Medicine.  To help dig into the rich symbolism of the way that Chinese medicine describes the body, I am using the Chinese organ clock.  As always, this information comes from my distillation of what my teachers have [...]

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Simple solution to a complicated study problem

29 July 2008 Student Life

In the post I wrote recently about transitioning to a more self-motivated form of studying, I presented a fairly complicated problem.  When you leave the comfy confines of rigorous acaemic life, it becomes difficult to keep focused on scholarly achievement.  Okay, that sounds simple.  Really, it isn’t.  It’s complicated by a whole host of life [...]

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Shameless self promotion?

26 July 2008 Blogging

This Saturday’s links are, perhaps, a bit self serving.   I hope you won’t think it’s too much – but if you do, I apologize. I just started two new blogs that I hope you will be interested in reading. They are both just brand new – like a baby still covered [...]

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The Year of Sagely Living – The Evolution

26 July 2008 Character

When we decided to move away from our original Year of Sagely Living idea, I knew I would run the risk of dropping the project entirely.  While I had the intention to focus on my physical body, I didn’t really know what form that would take.  I’ve struggled to keep closely to my focused program [...]

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