Empty Mind to Cure Disease- article

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Hi all list members,

I just thought it would be interesting for many of us to expand the

view by reading this articles written by a korean OMD whose lectures

were big hits on korean national TV a few months ago. I'll keep

posting the series of his articles.

 

 

`First of All, Empty Mind to Cure Disease!'

 

By Kim Hong-ghyoung

Well, now. Let's have a look at our lips. The lower lip belongs to

the Ren (Conception) Meridian. Ren means ``to entrust,'' or ``to

commission. " The upper lip corresponds to the Du (Governing)

Meridian. Du means ``to oversee,''``to supervise,'' or ``to direct.''

In general, women have a more developed Ren Meridian, whereas with

men, it's the Du Meridian that's more developed. People who are more

developed in the Du Meridian have a fuller upper lip, and would tend

to not trust others easily.

 

Anyone reading this book with excessive Du Meridian energy, a ``stiff

upper lip,'' is probably not buying a word of what I'm saying.

Whenever I give a lecture, I notice that the men in the audience have

tense upper lips for the first 15 days or so, watching me guardedly.

They're thinking to themselves, ``Is this guy pulling my leg, or

what?'' Men in general, and the majority of arrogant people, have a

more developed Du Meridian. A woman with a large hooked nose and a

prominent upper lip, also a sign of stronger Du Meridian development,

is more likely than not to have infertility problems. Her appearance

is an indication that she has more masculine energy than feminine

energy.

 

Let's say that a guy asks a girl out for a date, and the girl says,

``Sure! I'd love to,'' but with her upper lip puckered. What is she

really saying? She's saying, ``Let me see if I like you or not.'' Or,

say a guy asks his sweetheart to go on a picnic, but the girl says,

``No, I don't want to'' with her lower lip puckered. Although she

says ``no,'' she actually wants to go. When someone says, ``read my

lips,'' you really should, if you want to find out what that person

is really thinking.

 

In my lecturing experience, I've found that women tend to believe

whatever I say right from the start. But by the end of the lecture,

they've gone off on their own tangents, and drawn conclusions totally

unrelated to anything I've been talking about. Men, on the other

hand, tend to be more wary in the beginning. But once things begin to

fall into place, they stick with me to the end. So, with my audience,

it's always half and half. But then, we're all made up of half and

half: Yin and Yang!

 

Scholars who specialize in the esoteric theories of the I Ching, the

Five Transportative and Six Climatic Energies don't like me too much.

You know why? Because I make the difficult sound so easy. The Truth

IS EASY! When a three year-old child thinks her sister is pretty, is

she talking about the proportion of the nose in relation to the arch

of the brows? No. The child sees and knows. Just like that! The child

can see, because everything beautiful, good and true shines with its

own light.

 

The Du Meridian is related to death, and the Ren Meridian is related

to life. When you're really, really angry, and you say ``F**k off!,''

notice how your lower lip gets covered over by your upper lip. The

lips are the crossroads of life and death. In Eastern Philosophy we

call the lips Qi Jiao, or ``the place where the Exchange of Qi

occurs.'' Speech is possible only when the upper and the lower lips

work in unison, or, to put it another way, when Yin and Yang exchange

their respective Qi.

 

During my examinations, my patients often pour out a torrent of

speculations as to how or why they got sick. But I don't let what

they say unduly sway me. I stick to what I observe. What medicine

should I prescribe for someone who has a prominent upper lip but a

rather thin lower one? Generally speaking, you don't find too many

obese people with a prominent upper lip. However, an obese (Yin)

person with a strong Du Meridian (Yang) would be a good thing

(because it shows relational balance).

 

A skinny person (Yang) with a prominent upper lip (Yang) tends to be

argumentative, asking a lot of questions. When he's done getting his

treatment, he'll turn right around and ask:

 

``And my head itches, too. What do you think, doc?''

 

``That's because you have heat rising to the head.''

 

``I sprained my back a few years ago. What about that?''

 

And so on and so forth. In such a case, sedating the Du Meridian and

tonifying the Ren Meridian either through acupuncture or herbs would

be in order.

 

Every one of you is an incredible piece of work, a complete meridian

matrix. And, within this matrix is the small part which we've just

talked, the Du and Ren Meridians. You really gotta believe me when I

say, ``Emptying the mind cures the disease.'' If you have a headache

or a tummyache, calmly scrutinize the location of the pain. You'll

feel better in no time. That's what my lecture's all about.

 

It's this sort of thing that I'm trying to help you to see. And I'm

going to do whatever it takes for you to see it, even if it takes

hollering and swearing! But it'd be no good if the only thing you

remembered after the lecture is, ``Man, he's one foul-mouthed

s.o.b.!''

 

Having attained knowledge that really illuminates, now what? Do the

Right Thing, that's what!

 

In the Bible, it is written that God commanded Adam and Eve not to

eat of the Tree of Knowledge, lest they come to know the difference

between good and evil. You all know that the disobedient couple got

evicted from the Garden shortly after learning to distinguish between

right and wrong. Now, in order for us their descendants to do the

right thing, we need to get past the duality that they established,

the strife-ridden conceptualizations that pit beauty against

ugliness, superior against inferior, knowledge against ignorance. The

right thing, after all, is not a matter of intellectually constructed

definitions.

 

Let's look at everyone around us as if we're seeing them for the

first time. When you take a fresh look at the world from a certain

meditative angle, you'll see everything in a wholly new light.

 

When asked, ``Where are you from?,'' most people generally skip the

street, borough, county, and town, and go straight to their country

of citizenship. They say, ``I'm a Korean'' or``I'm an American,''

etc. But, love of one's country notwithstanding, from a planetary

point of view, we're all from the same place: Earth. When you realize

that you're just a human being, no more, no less, you'll be able to

lose a lot of the baggage that makes you and others uptight. Think

big in this way, and you'll get rid of a lot of diseases. But if we

keep going the way that we're going -- popping pills and idly

speculating about things which only further obfuscate the most

fundamental truths of being human -- then for sure, we're headed

straight for the ``all-you-can- eat'' buffet table of disaster.

 

I can't divulge their names here, but there's been a lot of talk

about things to come among those ``in the know'' within the field of

Eastern Medicine. I count among my teachers of Zen, Masters Kyung

Huh, Mahn Gong, and Hye Am. But I've met and talked with many other

Masters who possess profound knowledge concerning the I Ching, Five

Transportative and Six Climatic Energies. According to them, the

future forecast doesn't look good. But where there is despair,

there's hope, no? I run a small clinic, and enjoy giving lectures

because I believe there is still hope. And, it is through gatherings

like this one that I'm trying to share this hope, the possibility of

thinking beyond (conceptual) thinking.

[Guest guest]

, isom@k... wrote:

> Hi all list members,

> I just thought it would be interesting for many of us to expand the

> view by reading this articles written by a korean OMD whose lectures

> were big hits on korean national TV a few months ago. I'll keep

> posting the series of his articles.

 

This is interesting. Lets make sure we have permission to post this

here. Is it public domain? thanks.

 

[Guest guest]

This lips information is of interest to me .

 

Generally speaking as people age the upper lip thins out more than what the

bottom one does if you compare pictures of the person when in youth as opposed

to when aged.

Does this mean the yang declines more than the yin ?

 

Actually the ren, chong and liver circle the lips more . The du just ends at the

top lip. I have been able to redden up the lips on patients using only ren 4 .I

believe this was so because because the point treats the essence and by

benefiting the esence I influenced and

benefited liver blood ( and liver goes throught the inside of lips ) hence

making lips more red .

 

What do others on the list feel about the Korean guys statement that the upper

lip is the du mai?

 

Heiko

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Heiko Lade wrote:

 

> Actually the ren, chong and liver circle the lips more . The du just ends at

the top lip. I have been able to redden up the lips on patients using only ren 4

..I believe this was so because because the point treats the essence and by

benefiting the esence I influenced and

> benefited liver blood ( and liver goes throught the inside of lips ) hence

making lips more red .

>

> What do others on the list feel about the Korean guys statement that the upper

lip is the du mai?

 

I'm okay with it. Take anything, cut it in half and the top part is

Yang in the bottom is Yin. There's your upper lip/Du Mai connection.

 

Only problem for me, having been checking out people's lips for a few

days now, Is that I don't see very many strong upper lips, only

excessive lower lips. The prominant upper lips are really weak jaws, or

overbites. And that makes me think in terms of a deficieincy of yin,

rather than an excessive Du Mai.

 

I've got a book by Shiatsu-Dude Ohashi called " Reading the Body " .

Except for the fact that Heaven is Yin and Earth is Yang in this book,

it reads very well. Ohashi says that the upper lip is the Stomach and

Small Intestine. The lower lip is the LI and Colon which seems redundant

to me. Perhaps this means LI and rectum. The corners of the mouth are

said to be the duodenum.

 

I've watched lips on people with chronic digestive pathologies. There is

definately some relationship there. Though, I kind of prefer to leave

the SI out of it. Upper lip is stomach, lower is LI. If anything, the

corners are the SI. I did meet a women with very tight corners to her

lips. There was some redness there too. I asked her if she had a

duadonal ulcer and her answer was yes. Probably a little disconcerting

to her, she was serving me food at a restuaruant. That was back when I

was reading this book for the first time.

 

" Hi, could I get some catsup, and do you have a duadonal ulcer? "

 

--

Al Stone L.Ac.

<AlStone

http://www.BeyondWellBeing.com

 

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

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upper lips cont:

 

Actually my experience with women and infertility is that women with a thin

upper lip do not fall as easily pregnant as those with a full upper lip. This is

contary to what the Korean guy suggests .

 

My view is that that women with a full upper lip have more blood and yin and

their liver, ren and chong are in abundance.

 

Heiko

 

 

 

 

 

 

> Al Stone wrote

>

> I'm okay with it. Take anything, cut it in half and the top part is

> Yang in the bottom is Yin. There's your upper lip/Du Mai connection.

>

[Guest guest]

Heiko Lade wrote:

>

> upper lips cont:

>

> Actually my experience with women and infertility is that women with a thin

upper lip do not fall as easily pregnant as those with a full upper lip. This is

contary to what the Korean guy suggests .

>

> My view is that that women with a full upper lip have more blood and yin and

their liver, ren and chong are in abundance.

 

Chong has a relationship with the Stomach, upper lip has a relationship

with the stomach...

 

I can appreciate your observation.

 

--

Al Stone L.Ac.

<AlStone

http://www.BeyondWellBeing.com

 

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.