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12/14/2022

TRAVEL WITH THE SAGES 22: HUA TUO

Hua Tuo (c. 140–208) was a physician who lived during the Three Kingdoms era (struggle began in 184; the official dates of the era are 220–265). He was the first person credited with using anesthesia during surgery, and he was skilled in acupuncture, moxibustion, herbal medicine, and daoyin (a form of qigong) exercises. He is considered the creator of the Five Animal Frolics (Wuqinxi)—exercises that improve health by imitating the movements of the crane, bear, deer, monkey, and tiger. Sadly, he was executed by the warlord Cao Cao. Just before his death, Hua Tuo burned the records of his medical techniques when his jailer was too afraid to accept them.

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人體欲得勞動，但不當使極耳，動搖則俗氣得消，血脈流通，病不得生，戶樞不朽也。

The human body wants to work, but it's inappropriate to go to extremes. If it moves, coarseness will disappear, blood will circulate, disease will not start—just as a door hinge never rots.

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This puts exercise into a medical context. We know that being active is healthy. But it never hurts to be reminded.

Despite this knowledge in Chinese and Western culture, despite this being known for centuries as much as now, we still don’t pay enough attention to this. I don’t think it’s mere laziness. I think we also get cross-messages. We are told that putting our needs aside for the sake of career is good. We are rarely told that putting career aside for the sake of health is good too. But the blunt truth is this: your job won’t take care of you once you retire or get sick. We have to do something the ancients never had to contend with: balancing job demands and walking our path.

Just keep moving. That’s the way to long life. That’s the way to follow Tao.

09/09/2022

TRAVEL WITH THE SAGES 35: LAOZI

As this series draws to a close, I’m going to take this week and next week to give the last word to the Daodejing.

Among all the different kinds of people in the Daodejing, the sage exemplifies one who follows Tao. The sage is a holy person who lives among the people and who brings balance to the community. Silently, this also means that we should each try to be a sage.

The sage is shèngrén, 聖人. Shèng means, “holy; sacred; sage.” The ideogram shows a person, 壬, with good speech, 口 (a mouth), and careful listening, 耳. The word Rén,人, means “person.”

The components for shèng show human values. Sacredness can sometimes be associated with separateness. It can mean dedicated or set apart for the service to some spiritual ideal. It can mean religious, and our temples, monasteries, and altars are seen as elevated beyond normal life. The word sheng is decidedly human and physical: a mouth and an ear. What makes the sage holy is not consecration, but the way that they live.

The sage is unselfish:

Heaven is forever, earth is lasting.
The reason why heaven and earth
are forever and lasting
is because they do not live for themselves.
That’s why they live forever.
Therefore, sages put the personal behind,
yet are bodily in front
for everybody other than themselves.
Are they wrong to use such selflessness?
That’s how they can fulfill themselves.
(Chapter 7)

They put others ahead of themselves:

So if a sage wants to raise the populace,
then a sage must speak below them.
If they want to be in front of the populace,
then they must be behind them.
(Chapter 66)

The sage rescues others.
. . a sage is always good at saving people.
Since they never abandon others,
they are always good at rescuing things.
(Chapter 27)

The sage works for reconciliation and does not blame others.

Reconcile great hatred,
and plenty of resentment will remain.
How can peace be made good?
Thus, a sage holds agreement on the left,
yet does not blame people.
(Chapter 79)

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08/08/2022

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07/27/2022

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06/13/2022

"When everyone in the world knows that which is beautiful as beautiful, then ugliness comes into being.
When everyone in the world knows that which is good as good, then that which is not good comes to be.
The mutual production of being and not being,
The mutual completion of difficult and easy,
The mutual formation of long and short,
The mutual filling of high and low,
The mutual harmony of tone and voice,
The mutual following of front and back -
These are all constants.
Therefore the Sage dwells in the non-active affairs and practices the wordless teaching.
The 10,000 things arise, but the Sage doesn't begin them;
The Sage acts on their behalf, but doesn't make them dependent;
The Sage accomplishes tasks but doesn't dwell on them;
It is only because of not dwelling on them, that they therefore do not leave.

06/08/2022

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06/06/2022

"Fame or your health - which is more dear?
Your health or your possessions - which is worth more?
Gain or loss - in which is there harm?
If your desires are great, you're bound to be extravagant.
If you store much away, you're bound to lose a great deal.
Therefore, if you know contentment, you'll not be disgraced.
If you know when to stop, you'll suffer no harm.
And in this way you can last a long time." -Lao Tzu Ch.44