Insights and Updates

Human nature is essentially greedy. The so-called morality is merely one of the means of self-restraint that human beings resort to when forced; law is only a bottom line that society sets to ensure everyone follows basic morality. Without the constraints of morality and law,…

Recently China and the United States have fought a trade war, and Huawei has been targeted by the full power of the United States; public opinion has boiled over. But Ren Zhengfei's response to the world has left a typical good impression—at once the steadiness…

Starting in October 2018, I began trying my own self-created approach of multi-target, broad-spectrum anti-cancer therapy using large traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) compound formulas on some cancer patients for whom other conventional Chinese and Western treatments had failed. It has achieved certain results, and I…

Earlier, I wrote an article introducing the experience a patient's family member had in treating pressure sores and skin ulceration. That article was titled "Experience in Treating Pressure Sores and Skin Ulcers Shared by a Patient's Family Member." That family member used MEBO Moist Burn…

Cancer is so frightening to have, and so is watching and treating it. —Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Whether it is the doctor treating cancer, the patient who has cancer, or the patient's family members—once they dwell on cancer,…

Expounding the great storehouse of teachings, the words are upright and so is the meaning. Cut off both ends entirely, one sword leans on the sky, cold. —Shi Daochuan, Song Dynasty Pointing directly to the human mind, seeing one's own nature and becoming Buddha—this is…

On this journey south to seek monks and sages, Mr. Steven Nicholas Alexander Zhou Ergou Maimaiti was suddenly seized by poetic inspiration and improvised a quatrain: A tiny room like a dungeon, deep and fathomless; Reins of fame and locks of gain are hard to…

Body trained like a crane's form, beneath a thousand pines, two scrolls of scripture. I come to ask the Way, and there is nothing to say—clouds in the blue sky, water in the vase. —Li Ao, Gift to the Great Monk Weiyan of Yaoshan A…

The trap is for catching the fish; once the fish is caught, the trap is forgotten... Words are for catching meaning; once meaning is grasped, words are forgotten. —Zhuangzi, External Things Poetry has a special talent, unrelated to books; poetry has a special appeal, unrelated…

I chose a slow green-skinned train and bought a sleeper ticket. To the clatter of the wheels and the waves of snoring from my car, I fell fast asleep, sleeping deeply. I had an upper berth, right over the air vent. They say that on…