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Contemplating Disease – Part 3a – Balance, Harmony, and Whack – August 23, 2018

To have physical form is to have disease.  Why you might ask?  Beside an obvious answer that a physical body is subject to decay and change another response is because of the natural imbalance of physical life forms.  Our bodies are comprised of the four elements of earth, water, air, and fire.  That may sound a tad bit ancient or even suspiciously superstitious and certainly not the language of modern medicine.  Remember though we are…

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I’m happy to report that I’ve finally untangled the mess to have a blog newsletter.  I hope you will consider signing up to receive it.   The newsletter will be a feed of snippets of all the blog posts from the previous day.  The newsletter will go out once a day in the morning.  If there is nothing new then no newsletter should go out, at least that’s the plan though gremlins may have other ideas.…

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The Clergy Letter Project

(I am one of the signators of this letter) Article by Michael Zimmerman “From Baptists to Buddhists, Roman Catholics to Rabbis, and from mainline Protestants to Unitarian Universalists the number of clergy stepping up to make it clear that religion and all facets of science need not be in conflict is exploding. Indeed, more than 16,000 clergy members have now joined The Clergy Letter Project, a grass roots organization designed to demonstrate this point. These 16,000…

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Part II – Disease Two Meanings – August 22, 2018

Disease is a fact of existence.  Chih-I considered disease to be of two types.  One is real and the other is tentative.  We must not be misled by the use of tentative however as being something that only is of short duration or that will simply go a way.  Another way of considering tentative is they are diseases of instruction.  A disease of instruction or tentative would be like the illness of Vimalakirti the famous…

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