"You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder."  Xi Zhi

One of my favorite quotes. None of us are perfect. No matter how much seeking perfection might be noble. The work, and benefit both lie in the effort, without any hope of success. Teaching is a talent not a skill, you can learn to teach but to be successful it is an art form. It is a balance of discovery and shining the light on the right path to guide the students to where you want them to go. I as my own teacher for so long have trouble with turning the light on for myself at times. It is one thing to be offered guidance, it is another to forge  your own trail.


I have been working over the Lung Channel yet again discovering the details of the indications for the points usage and contraindications. For instance TianFu (LU-3) or Palace of Heaven. This is a location on the lateral anterior aspect of the arm. about a single hand width inferior of the axillary fold. In the depression created by the biceps brachii and the shaft of the humerous. Indications include Cooling of heat in the lung channel, Cools blood and halts bleeding. Calms the soul, decreasing sadness weeping, and insomnia. However in some of the early texts this point is strongly contra-indicated for Moxa. Suggests that the use of moxa would cause a reversal of Qi ( For those that don' t know this is really really bad).

We are all connected. The basic concept of M theory or String Theory goes to prove a existence of the interconnection of all things. I think, and there are others doing the research right now that we will eventually discover that these points on our bodies, these channels where our ancestors discovered the flow of something beyond us but still a part of us. Will be found to be points of connection to other planer levels of existence, that web of inter-connectivity that we see being pointed to in string theory. I dont think qi is the actual force making the connection but... is the point of connection that exists in this plane. Which is why qi can take on 83 forms in the human body alone. Because where the connection occurs and how and where that flow of connection gets sustains would adopt an aspect unique to that person and location. But similar enough in each person to be a system of governance of the energy that connects us to the universe.


Such is how I spend my spare time. :) Shining a light on the darkness first so  I can lead the way, eventually for those to follow. I am still walking the paths of those before me to guide my way into this world of information so foreign to the western world. But I am forging my own path to getting there. :) 

I fill my mind with information and task my soul with temperance. I seek to enlighten my mind and unburden my spirit. In a dogged pursuit of my tasks. I am threatened by the process that will forever be true to the nature of learning. Learning more, only opens more for you to learn. There is no end, there is no perfection. There is, always was, and always will be more to learn.

Yet I am troubled. Not by the endless task that lies before me, but the ones that I have left behind me. No amount of seeking, no amount of knowledge can replace holding loved ones close to you. The learning eases my pain, but today there is a heaviness of my heart, an emptiness of soul. The light for me today shines a bit dimmer.

Even though we have been so blessed by the Sun which has finally burned through the clouds and offered me an unobstructed view of the heavens. I think I actually spent the entire day dry for the first time. :)

Take care my friends. Look about you. Enjoy that which is close to you, wherever you may be. 

You will find happiness only in the current state of existence.
Happiness exists only in the now, it cannot exist in future.