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A monk asked the Buddha: What is the greatest strength? What is the purest light? The Buddha said: Forbearance under insult is the greatest strength, because it harbors no harm and is also peaceful and sound; one who endures has no evil and is sure…

After Mr. Hu Shi died, Chiang Kai-shek sent him this elegiac couplet: In memory of the late Mr. Shizhi A model of old morality within the new culture A paragon of new thought within the old ethics Respectfully mourned by Zhongzheng This couplet is the…

The heart of compassion is common to all people. — Mencius The British economist Alfred Marshall said that the motive force of an economic man comes first from egoism, but that in the end this egoism more or less consciously develops into altruism. This process…

Among all the gentlemen who wrote intellectual history in the Republican era, I like Hu Shi best. This thinker, brimming with the spirit of the scholar, had both a naive, simple side and a broad-minded, generous side. He dared to criticize, yet could modestly accept…

Someone once joked with me, "You are truly Hua Tuo reborn." I jokingly replied, "I really have no wish to be Hua Tuo reborn." Hua Tuo died at the hands of his own patient, Cao Cao. Even earlier, the Western-Han physician Chunyu Yi nearly lost…

The three cases of treating asthma with Chinese medicine presented here were selected from among the asthmatic patients I have treated as several representative types of asthma. I place them together to illustrate some points worth noting when treating asthma. Because I myself was once…

Knowing all appearances are not appearances, yet wishing to be passionless while still feeling. — Li Shenzhi Nothing but heart-rending pain can crush the four maras; nothing but gut-breaking sorrow can extinguish the five poisons. The eight sufferings of life—birth, old age, illness, death, parting…

1. A person's attachments are always seen through and let go of in the process of repeated setbacks. 2. Be grateful to those who bring us to understanding, and to those who bring us to awakening; whether or not the name of teacher and disciple…

The patient, Ren, female, aged 74, presented for treatment of lung adenocarcinoma. First visit, February 24, 2016. She had undergone targeted therapy for lung cancer. Findings: teeth-marked tongue; chest pain radiating through to the back; dry mouth; bitter taste in the mouth; bone-steaming sensation and…

Confucius said: One who understands the Changes does not divine. Xunzi said: One who is skilled in the Changes does not consult the cracks. The Zhouyi was originally a book of divination. Yet great scholars like Confucius and Xunzi said that "one who understands the…