My Fingers Brush the Strings

[Guest guest]

All,

Everyone seems to be zenning out lately. This is good. Keep it up forever.

And life goes on. The time of the magic spleen, ruler of sympathy. Everyone

needs a little tea and sympathy. You know what I realized? This gig is just like

waiting tables. All gigs are just like waiting tables. Just do it your way and

have a grand old time. I'm starting to realize how magic it is to know and

work with herbs. They speak to us. We know them. Everyone used to know herbs, or

at least some. It was just a natural part of life. I'm starting to tell those

patients who can hear me that they know herbs in their bones, and they have

common sense, and so they can play around with them just a little once they get

eddicated by me. I tell them enough to keep them from hurting themselves,

which is usually not a problem anyway. It's time to bring back a populace that

knows herbs in their bones for real in these particular bodies. The herbs truly

do work wonders. Spread the word. And work a miracle on yourself with herbs.

Show us what you got.

 

Hey I'm too lazy or busy right now to look it up. Can somebody please remind

me what the name of the herb is that they routinely really give us when we

order shi hu? I love a little shi hu gan cao tang (2 parts shi hu, one part gan

cao) at just the right moments. Heals me.

Joseph Garner

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Joseph,

 

Do you mean Hb. Dendrobii, the orchid? By the way, I

truly enjoy reading your postings. They remind me to

slow down and everything will be ok. Thank you.

 

 

 

 

--- acugrpaz wrote:

> All,

> Everyone seems to be zenning out lately. This is

> good. Keep it up forever.

> And life goes on. The time of the magic spleen,

> ruler of sympathy. Everyone

> needs a little tea and sympathy. You know what I

> realized? This gig is just like

> waiting tables. All gigs are just like waiting

> tables. Just do it your way and

> have a grand old time. I'm starting to realize how

> magic it is to know and

> work with herbs. They speak to us. We know them.

> Everyone used to know herbs, or

> at least some. It was just a natural part of life.

> I'm starting to tell those

> patients who can hear me that they know herbs in

> their bones, and they have

> common sense, and so they can play around with them

> just a little once they get

> eddicated by me. I tell them enough to keep them

> from hurting themselves,

> which is usually not a problem anyway. It's time to

> bring back a populace that

> knows herbs in their bones for real in these

> particular bodies. The herbs truly

> do work wonders. Spread the word. And work a miracle

> on yourself with herbs.

> Show us what you got.

>

> Hey I'm too lazy or busy right now to look it up.

> Can somebody please remind

> me what the name of the herb is that they routinely

> really give us when we

> order shi hu? I love a little shi hu gan cao tang (2

> parts shi hu, one part gan

> cao) at just the right moments. Heals me.

> Joseph Garner

>

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been

> removed]

>

>

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

>>> , acugrpaz@a... wrote:

> Everyone seems to be zenning out lately. This is good. >>>

 

I thought all the problems had been decided and resolved!

Jim Ramholz<<<

 

Jim,

You just blew everybody away, that's all. But I bet a lot of people are just

off having a great time. Yo. Thanks for the beautiful pulse discussion. Pulse

is good. Me like pulse. Me like you, you grand man. The Academy itself is a

magic formula, full of lovely sticks and rocks and grass. I just want to say how

much I appreciate having all of you to talk to. You guys are great. You make

my days often. Thanks again, gush gush.

 

Has anyone else read Plant Spirit Medicine by Eliot Cowan?

Yosef Garner (Heart of Oak), compulsively teaching

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

, acugrpaz@a... wrote:

> Everyone seems to be zenning out lately. This is good. >>>

 

 

 

I thought all the problems had been decided and resolved!

 

 

Jim Ramholz

[Guest guest]

Emmanuel/Bai He,

Beautiful Emmanuel, how about you try some Jiao Tai Wan for a few days.

Tastes like hell and works like heaven. Then move to Ding Zhi Wan for two days

only, then find some raw herbs and ask them for entrance. If we take enough

heart-opening herbs, they're guaranteed to get to us. Especially those of us who

can

take a hint. No beauty has ever gone wasted, my friend of quicksilver

stillness. Every roadsign is ecstasy. We are what we have always been waiting

for.

Now is the moment of ultimate love.

He

P.S. Of course, you will use your own discretion with herbs. You know your

way around or will find it. As you know so well, love and respect the medicinals

and they will love and respect you. Signing off from Crazed Taoist Pagan

Sadhus Anonymous. We are all the Medicine Buddha. Take it easy, always. I know

you

meant for me to 'name' a formula for everyone, but that's asking too much.

The formulas shift too quickly. I hope no one feels excluded by this kind of

in-joke e-mail massage, because no one is ever excluded, not in my world.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Actually, I am bracing for the blast of renewed involvement in our

discussions on the list, along with return to teaching at PCOM. I've

enjoyed the break, visiting with Emmanuel Segmen, and lecturing in San

Francisco and Seattle.

 

I actually had Elliot Cowan over for dinner with some of his students a

few years ago. Very interesting stuff he is into, but I don't know if

I buy the whole using 'the spirit of the herb' trip. I believe that

plants have a particular type of spirit, that is certainly the

Kabbalistic approach, but I don't think using one herb's spirit for

every ailment is the way to go.

 

 

On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 10:47 PM, acugrpaz wrote:

 

>>>> , acugrpaz@a... wrote:

>> Everyone seems to be zenning out lately. This is good. >>>

>

> I thought all the problems had been decided and resolved!

> Jim Ramholz<<<

>

> Jim,

> You just blew everybody away, that's all. But I bet a lot of people

> are just

> off having a great time. Yo. Thanks for the beautiful pulse

> discussion. Pulse

> is good. Me like pulse. Me like you, you grand man. The Academy itself

> is a

> magic formula, full of lovely sticks and rocks and grass. I just want

> to say how

> much I appreciate having all of you to talk to. You guys are great.

> You make

> my days often. Thanks again, gush gush.

>

> Has anyone else read Plant Spirit Medicine by Eliot Cowan?

> Yosef Garner (Heart of Oak), compulsively teaching

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Yosef,

 

I full agree with your two posts regarding herbs and CHA. I, too, gush the body

electric. Now for an extra challenge, select formulas for everyone. ;-)

 

In Bai He Gratitude,

Emmanuel Segmen

-

acugrpaz

Friday, August 29, 2003 10:47 PM

Re: My Fingers Brush the Strings

 

 

>>> , acugrpaz@a... wrote:

> Everyone seems to be zenning out lately. This is good. >>>

 

I thought all the problems had been decided and resolved!

Jim Ramholz<<<

 

Jim,

You just blew everybody away, that's all. But I bet a lot of people are just

off having a great time. Yo. Thanks for the beautiful pulse discussion. Pulse

is good. Me like pulse. Me like you, you grand man. The Academy itself is a

magic formula, full of lovely sticks and rocks and grass. I just want to say

how

much I appreciate having all of you to talk to. You guys are great. You make

my days often. Thanks again, gush gush.

 

Has anyone else read Plant Spirit Medicine by Eliot Cowan?

Yosef Garner (Heart of Oak), compulsively teaching

 

 

[Guest guest]

>>>I actually had Elliot Cowan over for dinner with some of his students a

few years ago. Very interesting stuff he is into, but I don't know if

I buy the whole using 'the spirit of the herb' trip. I believe that

plants have a particular type of spirit, that is certainly the

Kabbalistic approach, but I don't think using one herb's spirit for

every ailment is the way to go.

 

<<<

 

Z'evzilla,

Eliot can be a bit forbidding in person. He's just had his mind blown so many

times it's hard for him to relate to the rest of us. Eventually the issue of

how herbs work and whether to use a single or a formula or whether they're

conscious or not all becomes moot. Everything's conscious: it's only a matter of

just how are you conscious? The only question is: How can I make use of what I

know to help people? To help myself? How do I know how to love? For every way

to love there're connections. Just relax about it all and be OK with it all.

Women understand this instinctively. They come out of the womb knowing that

we're all one big family. Men keep trying to tell them that our tribe is more

real than their tribe. Men even take it to the point of not educating women to

make sure they don't get ideas about loving everybody. Just think how boring

the news would be if there were no men. Everything was cool today. Everybody

talked everything out and ended up hugging, and then went home and gossiped

about

each other. There were no rapes, murders, wars, robberies, bomb blasts or

drunks roaming the streets. My theory is that in about six months, half the

women

would be acting just like men.

 

Being in one's head is a beautiful thing actually, but there's a limit to

what the heart can stand. Shalom, uncle.

Jyosephi