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Frustrations on the path to Chinese medicine mastery

7 March 2010 Learning

I’ve been working with students explicitly for about a year now, teaching at NCNM. I think I will be continuing to do this, as the activity suits me and it also forces me to keep studying. I find that I want to teach about learning a lot, even though I do like teaching about herbs [...]

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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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Taking it all in: Buddhist practice and Chinese medicine school

9 April 2008 Character

I’ve been struggling for the past couple of weeks.  I’ve gone through the range of responses to my difficulty, mostly hovering in the realm of “just keep moving” which seems to work for me.  The fact is that since I began Chinese medicine school at National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) I’ve gone through periods [...]

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