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Confucianism

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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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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