Health
Cancer, diet, and the mind in sickness.
16 essays, 2016–2024.
Essays16
- Eat what you like to eat diet
It’s easier to eat too much protein than it is to eat too little protein and nine other things I learned about food and performance Eat what you like to eat If you don’t eat what you like…
- Jigme Lingpa on Sickness
But see them as the signs of the waning of your bad karmas, and rejoice over them.
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (10) – Afterword
The manuscript for this pamphlet was written two years ago in New York I’d hoped to publish an English version but could not find a com- < petent translator. This past spring I returned to…
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (2) – History
Cancer-related afflictions have increased at an alarming rate in this century. Records from the United States Department of Health indicate that cancer claims one life every four minutes.
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (3) – Symptoms
Cancer can attack any area of the body. During Tang and Sung times, doctors noticed that most men suffered in the abdominal area, while women suffered in breast and uterus.
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (4) – Nature and Composition
Chinese medicine distinguishes every illness by nature, yin or yang, and by composition, depleting (draining) or repleting (filling). 4 When a symptom corresponds to the nature and course of…
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (5) – Causes
The ancients believed cancer resulted from mental anxiety or phys- ical suppression. Not everyone suffers from abnormal anxiety, but suppression is common. I would like to summarize a few…
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (6) – From First Sensation to Development and the Mistake of Procrastination
The symptoms of serious abdominal lesions include plain bump which neither hurt nor itch: similar to abdominal swelling due to constipation, phlegmatic lumps, the inner lumps of…
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (7) – Treatment
There are two schools of thought in treating illness—the orthodox and the alternative methods.
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (9) – Prevention
This is preventative medicine. You can cure any future illnesses if you receive qualified advice today. Sixty to seventy percent of cancer is self-inflicted through lifestyle—so preventative…
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer – Introduction
Caution in treating illnesses was deemed more important than sincere prayer or solemn marches.
- Light on Pranayama
Pranayama (Chinese Qi Gong, Tibetan Cha Lung) is a series of practices focused on the breath. These practices have become increasingly popular over the past decade or two, but unfortunately…
- Introduction to Mind Training
In meditation practice, as you sit with a good posture, you pay attention to your breath. When you breathe, you are utterly there, properly there.
- Learning Something New
Learning something new means to “change something” that is currently happening or not happening.
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer – Short Background to Master Cheng
Cheng Man Ching is one of the greats of contemporary Tai Chi and is the single best-known contributor to the spread of Chinese internal arts to the US where today millions of people…
- The Macrobiotic Way of Life
George Ohsawa (born in Japan as Yukikazu Sakurazawa 1892-1966) introduced many Europeans and Americans to macrobiotic eating.