The Year of Sagely Living – The Evolution

26 July 2008 Character

Welcome back! The site has been updated. You might want to find out our new ways to keep updated or check out the community forum. We look forward to interacting with you!
When we decided to move away from our original Year of Sagely Living idea, I knew I would [...]

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Compassion as the driving force of Classical Chinese Medicine practice

14 June 2008 Character

A while ago, I began a series of posts designed to describe my experiences with Dr. Liu Lihong, renown Classical Chinese Medicine clinician and scholar. He visited NCNM in Portland just about a month ago, delivering powerful lectures and teaching us all with grace and simplicity. Many folks have asked me to share [...]

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Why should doctors cultivate compassion?

1 January 2008 Character

Three excellent blogs, Urbanmonk.net, The Middle Way.net, and kentonwhitman.com have collaborated to create a group writing project around the topic of compassion. They have titled the project “Spread the love NOW,” an imperative statement for an imperative topic! It’s a great time of year to be thinking deeply about compassion and other related [...]

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Thoughts on Learning Chinese Medicine

7 June 2007 Confucianism

I am not a perfect student. I sometimes choose to watch a movie or screw around on the computer instead of doing something to advance my medical knowledge or my personal cultivation. I want to say that first so I can’t be accused of having unreasonably high standards. I do understand that [...]

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