East Asian Philosphy & Cultures

Aging in Acupuncture and Asian Medicine

By Dr.Kim / 09/17/2012 / Comments Off on Aging in Acupuncture and Asian Medicine

Topics: Aging Well with Acupuncture and Asian Medicine, Six Easy Tips for Greater Health and Longevity, Health Boosting Foods Aging Well with Acupuncture and Asian Medicine Asian medicine has a long history of healing and rejuvenation that teaches us a great deal about aging well. Two thousand years ago, ancient Chinese scholars described the stages…

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How to be Rich How to be Strong

By Dr.Kim / 02/10/2011 / Comments Off on How to be Rich How to be Strong

To Understand others is to be knowledgeable; To understand yourself is to be wise. To conquer others is to have strength; To conquer yourself is to be strong. To know when you have enough is to be rich. To go forward with strength is to have ambition. To not lose your place is to last…

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How You Deal with Being Sick

By Dr.Kim / 02/08/2011 / Comments Off on How You Deal with Being Sick

So glad, finally I am writing about the way of being sick, or how you feel still O.K. even when you are sick housebound or bedbound. Since My mother has been ill for years, now at a nursing home, can’t walk, wheelchaired, with hemodialysis three times a week, hypertension, so fragile, I started thinking about…

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The Wisdom of Prajanaparamita Heart Sutra

By Dr.Kim / 08/26/2010 / Comments Off on The Wisdom of Prajanaparamita Heart Sutra

The Childhood Memory of The Heart of the Prajnaparamita Anyone who grew up in the Buddhist culture or family remembers this sutra, When I was little boy, my mother and grandmother took me to the Buddhist temple in the mountain for the special occasions; the birthday of Buddha or the commemorative day of the ancestors,…

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What is Thought?

By Dr.Kim / 07/22/2010 / Comments Off on What is Thought?

Contemplation of Thought From Siksasamuccaya Translated from the Sanskrit by Edward Conze He searches all around for his thought. But what thought? It is either passionate, or hateful, or confused. What about the past, future, or present? What is past that is extinct, what is future that has not yet arrived, and the present has…

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The Self in Transcendence – No Boundary

By Dr.Kim / 03/31/2010 / Comments Off on The Self in Transcendence – No Boundary

I have been reading this book over the past 10 months, sometimes just sitting in my backpack, and many ideas and urges to write came upon me. Today I finally sit and am introducing some of ‘No Boundary’ exercise and believe that other people also will have the benefit or some ideas of ‘The self…

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People Seek Tao Far Away

By Dr.Kim / 02/06/2010 / Comments Off on People Seek Tao Far Away

Not knowing how near truth is People seek it far away – what a pity! They are like he who, in the midst of water Cries in thirst so imploringly ——The great zen master Hakuin   No need to leave your door to know the whole world; No need to peer through your windows to…

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TAO TE CHING Chapter 7

By Dr.Kim / 08/31/2009 / Comments Off on TAO TE CHING Chapter 7

TAO TE CHING – CHAPTER  7 Heaven endures; Earth lasts a long time. The reason why Heaven and Earth can endure and last a long time- Is that they do not live for themselves. Therefore they can long endure. Therefore the Sage: Puts himself in the background yet finds himself in the foreground; Puts self-concern…

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