In my leisure I read a lot of Science Fiction, Fantasy, General Fiction, and Young Adult literature. If anyone has read anything dealing with magic, or sorcery, or witchcraft and lore one thing that is a constant is the power of a name. In fact mages, witches, sorcerers guard their true name knowing that someone who knows their name has power over them. To know someone’s name is to have a power over them. Think…
Faith can be a wonderful thing and it can also be dangerous. I’ll write more about the power of faith with regard to managing illness and disease. For now I would briefly like to stop here and speak of harmful religious ideation, a term that frequently used among chaplains when working with patients and families who would believe something that was harmful to their lives and contrary to the advice of their medical providers. Being…
In Chih-I’s time, and in fact for most of the time humans have been around until more recent times, the idea of living with long term illness didn’t exist much. You either recovered or you died in most cases. With the advances of modern medicine people are living longer, dying at later ages, and living with illnesses that would previously meant death. This is a wonderful benefit of modern medical science. We have much to…
“I shall be able to obtain the golden body of the Buddha because I gave up my arms.” I think of the many golden body Buddhas I witnessed over the years who through their passion not only gave up their arms, their legs, their minds, their lives doing the compassionate acts of caring for the sick. “If my words are true and not false, I shall be able to have my arms restored.” And these…
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