Contemplating Disease – Ten Characteristics – Part 12f – December 29, 2018

When a person is ill time is measured differently than generally when healthy.  In some instances especially when pain is present time can seem as if it stands still or even goes backward.  Has it ever happened to you when you’re in pain and you have said something to the effect that things seem to be going backwards getting worse rather than better?  Perhaps not. Time, Chih-I advises is to be not even considered a…

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Contemplating Disease – Ten Characteristics – Part 12e – December 28, 2018

Under the section which talks about Means Chih-I advises that you should skillfully employ healing methods as appropriate.  I take this to include the use of doctors and medicines which may be prescribed to you for your treatment and care.  Here I am going to reveal my prejudice to the use of Western medicine.   What informs my preference towards Western medicine would be a fair question to ask.  Mainly it boils down to the…

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Contemplating Disease – Part 12a – Ten Characteristics – 30 September 2018

In the previous section I gave a quote from Chih-I in which he talks about a free method of managing illness, one that doesn’t take much time, which can be done without any side effects, and may be taken with out limit.  He laments that in spite of all the benefits of this offering people refuse to partake.  In the Lotus Sutra in the parable of the Gem in the Robe we learn that the…

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