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18 August 2010 Acupuncture

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So I got several hundred words into this evenings post when I realized that it wasn’t a blog [...]

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Tension between the modern and the ancient in self cultivation

15 August 2010 Cultivation

This is my first weekly YODA update.
It was a tumultuous week, there’s no doubt about it.  I’ll be talking about the details on my personal blog and the Deepest Health forums, so won’t prattle on here.  However, I will provide a summary and the most important insights that have come from my work during this [...]

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An exploration of Chinese herb flavors : A student project (Part 1 of 3)

8 April 2010 Cultivation

Today, I would like to present the first part of a three-part series about flavor combinations in Chinese herbal medicine. You may remember that the issue of flavors is one of the things I’ve been discussing with my students at NCNM. The question of what the symbol of flavor actually means and how it can [...]

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The sages of Chinese antiquity stood facing South

3 November 2009 Character

Today, on a walk I was taught an important lesson by some late migrating geese. In the late summer and autumn, we get a whole lot of geese flying overhead in my neighborhood. We live pretty close to a couple of wildlife refuges, one being specifically devoted to waterfowl. In general, in Portland, the autumn [...]

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Chinese character input using the Macbook’s multi-touch trackpad : a boon for Classical Chinese language learners?

20 August 2009 Character

You know how it’s sometimes quite a pain to input Chinese on your computer? Well, I do. I use a program called QIM that works pretty well, but I’ve always longed for a better solution. Well, my friends, Apple has done it again. Without buying a tablet PC, without installing any weird software, for $29 [...]

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