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Zhuang Zi is one of the prominent philosophers in the era of battle nation. He has done much study about man’s spirit, integrity, nature-cultivation, heart-cultivation and advocated the nature-cultivation of unselfishness, few desires, quietness and transcendence.

Unselfishness. In the opinion of Zhuang Zi, selfishness is the origin of all evils and diseases. One is certain to worry about the gain and loss for everything and be in a state of restlessness if he is often self-centered and calculative and then overstrains of his body and exhaustion of his essence will ensue in a long run. In order to live for a long life one should be broad-minded, high-spirited, optimistic, free from fame and gain and unselfish.

Few desires. Neither abstinence from desires nor self-indulgence is helpful to nature-cultivation. Self-indulgence is certain to make one get into trouble or catch a disease. One won’t cheat or humiliate the other sex with little sexual passion. One won’t murder for money with little desire for substance. One won’t feign compliance, cut corners, play down the others and boost oneself with little desire for power. One who know his honour and disgrace and his place can be called the man with the nature of justice, honest and unselfishness who can be healthy and live at rest. In the present time, there is too much temptation all over the world. Most people are hunting for the happiness of substance and impatient, and someone is addicted in the desire for power, profit, sex, greed and hobbies. One will lose his temper and take it out on others when he is dissatisfied with what he had. Thereafter, those bad emotions such as worry, anxiety, depression, mourn, regret and anger will ensue and hurt his body.

Quietness. One can’t be affected by disaster nor attacked by exogenous pathogen with mental stability as well as indifference to fame or gain in the daily life and social intercourse. Quietness can restrain anger, rid of worry, settle down the mind and cultivate the health. Rather than thinking of nothing, quietness is one kind of mind state that should make one be far from the music and sex pleasure, out of win or loss, gain or loss, honour or disgrace, neither worry nor overstrain should exist. There is too much spirit-dispersing temptation including money, rank, fame and gain, beauty etc in the world. In this confused world, one should keep calm and out of power, fame and gain, money and scene of debauchery. Such mind state will make those bad emotions like nervousness, worry, anger, jealousy and hatred far from you and keep your mind calm. Quietness can make your mind at rest, Qi and blood circulation normal and then the modulation of your body will be normal and you will be healthy and live a long life.

Transcendence. There is a vivid metaphor in the book of Zhuang Zi, which the pheasant in waters can survive because of their optimism. They enjoy their lives, peck and drink something from time to time. It is not the same for the caged birds. It is certain that one will worry if he is imprisoned in the spirit shackles. That will be harmful to his health. Therefore, he advocates that one should be optimistic and open-minded, not be moved by grief and joy and enjoy his life. Zhuang Zi looks upon the life in an unprejudiced manner and let the nature take its course. He lives a hard life and from hand to mouth sometimes. He doesn’t care about all of that. His wife was dead and Hui Zi went to mourn for her. He started to sing instead of weeping. Hui Zi criticized him for his singing. He said calmly: at first, I am very sad about her death, and then I thought about carefully how man comes and goes in this world. I have the idea that man changes from the non-biotic substance. Figure takes shape and man has a life when Qi gathers. Man is dead when Qi scatters. Now my wife’s body is dead and will change into non-biotic substance. So I celebrate and say a farewell to my wife for her regression to the nature in the way of singing with beating the tub. What he said is not certain to be reasonable, but his transcendent and open-minded manner treating his life is worth advocating.

Reference: Zhuang Zi’s eight kinds of methods for health cultivation jsqg.sport.org.cn

Those whose vital spirit is scattered outwardly and whose intellectual ruminations ramble inwardly cannot govern their bodies. When what the spirit employs is distant, then what it loses is nearby.

So know the world without going out the door, know the weather without looking out the window; the further out it goes, the less knowledge is. This means that when pure sincerity emerges from within, spiritual energy moves in heaven.

Reference: Title quote from Mencius, Lyrics Wen-Tzu: Understanding the Mysteries 20 p. 26 translated by Thomas Cleary

Here is a short list of 10 good medical qigong books:

1. “Chinese Qigong Outgoing-Qi Therapy” by Pengjun Zhong
2. “Chinese Qigong Therapy” by Zhang Mingwu
3. “Chinese Qigong” by Zhang Enqin
4. “Medical Qigong Exercise Prescriptions” by Suzanne B, L.Ac., Dmq (China) Friedman
5. “Practical Chinese Qigong for Home Health Care” by Ce Jin
6. “Qigong Essentials for Health Promotion“
7. “Qigong for Treating Common Ailments: The Essential Guide to Self Healing” by Xu Xiangcai
8. “Self – Therapies for Common Diseases” by Li Hesheng
9. “Transmitting Qi Along the Meridian: Meridian Qigong” by Li Ding
10. “Treasured Qigong of Tradtional Medical School” by Huang Runtian

Qigong can cure almost every disease on earth if applied in the correct manner. Please remember to consult a physician in case of serious illness. I wish you good health, happiness and peace.

1. Simplifying involvements
2. Not craving anything
3. Queiting the mind

“If people can empty their minds and contrive nothing, it is not that they want the Way, but the Way spontaneously reverts to them”.

Reference: Treatise on sitting forgetting from Taoist Meditation by Thomas Cleary p. 102

When people see others doing wrong and conceive aversion and disdain, that is like grabbing the knife from someone about to kill himself and committing suicide with it your self. It is the other who is doing wrong, not compelling you; why take on others wrongs and make them into your own sickness?

Reference: Treatise on sitting and forgetting

Taoist Meditation: Methods for Cultivating a Healthy Mind and Body

p. 91

The man behind the massacre on the isle of Utøya and the 2011 July bombing in Oslo, Anders Behring Breivik alias “Andrew Berwick” posted his manifesto ”2083 – a European Declaration of Independence” to Pat Dollard for publication on his website.

Anders Behring Breivik is by his own admission a wright wing christian conservative, nationalist and liberalist. He is also known as a freemason of the St. John lodge St. Olaus TD Three pillars of the Norwegian Masonic Order in Norway. Anders Behring Breivik is a former party member and chairman of a local branch of the norwegian immigrant critical “Fremskrittspartiet (FrP)“. Anders Behring Breivik is against a multicultural globalisation of the world. Anders Behring Breivik is pro Israel and anti Islam.

Links:
Video And Full Text – “2083: A European Declaration Of Independence” by Norway Shooter Andrew Berwick patdollard.com

Other references:
Norway Attacks bbc.co.uk
Anders Behring Breivik postings document.no
Gates of Vienna
Anders Behring Breivik wikipedia.org

There are things one tries everything to gain, but endless efforts end up in vain;

however, sometimes you obtain something without trying look for it

- serendipity, or even inspiration.

Feng Menglong

Reference: Wisdom of the Ancients for Today
Foreign Languages Press 2007

p. 120

The saying goes that young boys from Korea would prefer their tender beef in stead of their mom!

The Viet Man Dish: Marinaded tender beef with peanut sauce together with red onions, spinach with pine nuts and bruun rice with peas.

Prepare the peanut butter dip:

• 1 cup of fried finely chopped (no salt) peanuts
• 6 spoons of fish sauce
• 1 finely chopped red chili
• 1 half round 5 cm palm sucker
• 100 grams of ” Wet tamarind” soaked in 1 1/2 cop of water
• The juice and grated peel of 1 lime
• Mix everything and season.

Main dish:

• Cut the tender beef in to thin slices and marinade in peanut oil, Teriyaki (or Japanese Soy Sauce), thin slices of ginger and garlic and coarsely ground black pepper.
• Start cooking the brown rice.
• Roast the pine nuts in a hot pan without oil until brown in color and set them aside to cool.
• Saute the peas lightly in butter until they are bright in color (only a short time) and set them aside.
• Saute the fresh spinach in the pan with less butter than you normally would do.
• Saute the finely cut red onions in peanut oil and and coarsely ground black pepper and set them aside.
• Grill the marinaded tender beef briefly on the hot pan.

Serve this wonderful, green and spicy dish fast and delicately with thin slices of green chili on top the of tender grilled beef and sprinkle with coriander leaves.

Bon appetit!

Love Thomas

Use the recipe whenever you want to strengthen your self. A fresh cucumber salad on side would do nicely as well.

Once upon a time there was a craftsman who lost his Axe. He thought hard, and finally suspected his neighbor of stealing it. When he saw his neighbor walking, he thought that he walked like an Axe thief. When he meet his neighbor, the others countenance was just like that of an Axe thief, and when he saw him in conversation with others, he even talked like an Axe thief.

Not long afterward, the craftsman found his Axe where he had mislaid it. Strangely enough, from that time on, his neighbor ceased to walk, look and talk like an Axe Thief.

Reference:A Taoist Miscellany p. 67