From the category archives:

Cultivation

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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A very long Chinese medicine engagement

17 August 2009 Classical Texts (general)

I want to try something new. Many of my readers have asked me to do more discussion of the Classical texts. I have been hesitant because my command of Chinese is not great and the available translations are mostly disappointing (if my teachers are to be believed). However, my need to dive into them continuously [...]

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5 Things to Look forward to after graduation : Chinese medicine post-graduate education

10 June 2009 Cultivation

Since the arrival of my friend Brandt Stickley, I have been unfortunately unable to devote the amount of time I would like to living out our wild Portland-area Awareness Project dreams. We had so many late night chat and Skype conversations, whipping one another into a sleepless frenzy about the power and possibility in symbolism. [...]

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What is a watershed?

3 March 2009 Cultivation

So, you may remember all this talk about the Awareness project. The idea was (and is, though evolved now) that we wanted to bring all of our senses to bear IN THE WORLD as people nourished by particular types of practices to really live what the Classics tell us about. This in turn would be [...]

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Still learning Chinese medicine : through the birth canal

9 December 2008 Blogging

It’s a cardinal rule in blogging that one shouldn’t write too many “sorry I’ve been away” posts. They tend to convey weakness, over-involvement in one’s own process and generally turn readers off – particularly first-time readers. If you’re a first time reader, may I suggest that you hunt through the Articles page or look to [...]

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