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The Yin Organs. Within Chinese medicine there are five yin organs (wu zang) – plus the pericardium, and six yang organs (liu fu). The wu zang are considered deeper inside the body than the liu fu, and are therefore yin by comparison to the yang organs. This does not mean that the wu zang have no yang functions – in fact they possess both yin and yang functions.
The function of the yin organs is to produce, transform, regulate and store the fundamental substances of the body -jing, qi, shen, xue, and jin ye. It is an understanding of the yin organs, their functions and relationships that forms the core of Chinese medicine.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5) Loading ...The news of Brandon Lee’s death shocked the whole world, especially all those fans of his father Bruce Lee. At the time, newspapers and magazines often mentioned Brandon because of the movies he starred in, and many people were looking for his fathers shadow in him.
When I was little and living in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee was my hero. All the Hong Kong people liked him. He proved that small Chinese could be strong, and his fighting style showed that martial arts should be direct for fighting and not decoration. In particular, his muscular build impressed everyone, his hack looked as if he had a pair of wings. His facial expressions and charisma no one can forget. During the 70′s the world’s attention was upon him: television, newspapers and magazines reported stories about him, anything with his name on it would sell out. At that moment many martial arts clubs became full over-night. To the martial arts world he was like a miracle. Suddenly, news of his death came! Nobody could believe it! Even now no one is sure how he died, it is still a secret.
After twenty years his son has now died in a filming accident. This has made many people think about him and his father. It has been reported that before he died he said he felt the demon that had killed his father and said that it was now following him! In the end it seems it took his life! This certainly creates a mystical side to the death of Brandon Lee and connects it with his father’s.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5) Loading ...It may sound like a fairy tale to diagnose illness without medical instruments or to cure it without medicine, but this is often done in China. Such miracles, are made possible by the application of Qigong and have attracted much attention in and outside of China. Qigong therapy is practised by a gigong master who can emit a kind of energy called “Qi”, in order to diagnose or remove an illness. It has cured many sufferers of common diseases, as well as numerous difficult and complicated cases which had failed to respond to ordinary methods of treatment.
Let’s have a look at some typical cases reported in Chinese newspapers and magazines.
A Qigong master named Xu Yifan has succeeded in curing Julian a British dramatist, of a chronic ailment. Julian had been a ballet dancer,. At the age of 19 he contracted rheumatoid arthritis which caused atrophy in his left hand, so that his fingers curled awkwardly inwards and the phalanges became deformed. Before long his left arm became stiff and immobile. Later he became paralysed and had to walk on crutches. In march 82, after hearing about Xu Yifan from a friend. Julian came to China to seek the help of the Oigong master.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5) Loading ...MOUNT HIEI, Japan — In Japan, Buddhist monks wear black. Dead people wear white.
For more than seven years, Genshin Fujinami dressed in white from head to toe while covering the backwoods trails of this sacred mountain in one of the world’s most grueling feats — a punishing quest that combined starvation, isolation and the equivalent of a lap around the equator.
For 1,000 days, rising well before dawn, Fujinami embarked alone, rain or shine, on his journey, running or briskly walking more than 50 miles — that’s almost two marathons — each day as the trial neared its climax. Along with his white robes, his only gear was a pair of straw sandals, a long straw hat, candles, a shovel, a length of rope and a short sword.
The rope and sword weren’t for survival — if for some reason he could not complete his daily trek, he was to use them to kill himself.
“I would have chosen the rope over the knife because it’s faster and cleaner. But, fortunately, it rarely comes to that,” Fujinami, a stout man with a shaven head, said at a small temple deep in the mountains where he is now an abbot. On the wall behind him was a scroll with a painting of Fudo Myo-o, his guardian god, who normally is portrayed with a fearsome scowl, a raised sword and a backdrop of leaping flames. (more…)
