My New World

don't just dream about it, build it.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

The Silent Majority of Hopi

I am recently quite busy because I procrastinated too much, reading more interesting books that I didn't make much progress on a paper that is due this week.

However, I came across this article/video, and decided that I need to share it.

The Silent Majority of Hopi and how you can help

Please do not judge it before hand. Just watch the entire video and read the article and come up with your own conclusions.

I hope one day, not only the indigenous people, but all of us, all of us on this planet will be able to be treated, and treat each other like human beings with rights and respects.

much love.

Monday, October 11, 2010

健康health? 运动 exercise?


Steve Gagne's book "Food Energetics" was the final trigger for me to go back to the roots of the ancient traditional Chinese medicine in search for the meaning of being healthy and the ways to go about it. For people who can't understand Chinese, I can only recommend Gagne's book. Many his concepts are based on Chinese medicine.It is an extraordinary book that I don't think anyone would regret buying.

Through thousands of years of "evolution" and "development", general Chinese people lost their knowledge about health along with their understanding of words through simplified writings and modern day speech. I was lucky to find many works of Dr. Xu, perhaps one of the best Chinese medicine practitioners in this generation, and an outstanding Taoism philosopher. Going over just a few paragraphs of the ancient scrip "Huang Di Nei Jing"(黄帝内经)in his programs, it took him 10 episodes!! He thoroughly amazed me by his word understanding and dazzled me with his knowledge. I have one of his books in possession, and I am devouring the publications on his blog...I wish I could share more,  maybe I will just be able to do that one day. Today I'm going to begin with just two words; since each Chinese character already contains profound knowledge of where it came from, and how it is achieved and built. Hopefully this will give whoever is reading a vague idea about the ancient knowledge behind simple words.

Health, in modern Chinese translation, is 健康, Jian Kang. They are spoken everyday by people; almost none of them have a slightest idea of what it really means. Because, we have forgotten that each of these characters means something.
健, Jian. With the 建(jian, also) on the right, and a "person"人 block on the left, it originally means having power, able to have force and speed. 建is used in words like to build something, meaning build. So put it simply, as a creature in the universe,健in health means well built, have a good amount of power, with abundant energy.
康, Kang, was used in many combined words in relation to roads. A infrastructure with roads that covers 5 directions is called Kang. Many ancient poems and scrips used Kang to describe good infrastructure and great connections. It is also believed in the traditional Chinese governing, that with a good infrastructure that allows the people and the officials to communicate with each other and among each other, peace and happiness in people's hearts are achieved. Therefore, Kang means no blockage, fluent. In the word "health", one could easily identify that this is referring to the roads within our bodies: our nervous system, digestive system, blood circulation system, and one traditional Chinese system"jing luo". Jing Luo is where "Chi" runs about. It is also where the acupuncture points lies on. Its a complicated idea to explain, people who are interested can search on youtube "Dr. Pete Peterson" for his interview with Project Camelot. He mentioned his scientific experiments with Jing Luo.
Now we see health, "健康" really means the total wellness of both inside and outside. Well built muscles are not indications of health, most people already know that. Having Chi, information, nutrition and blood being able to go through the entire body fluently is the other crucial point to achieve health.

Chinese has an old saying "生命在于运动" meaning, life is based on "yun dong". When you ask a Chinese what does "yun dong" means, he'll be happy to tell you it means exercise, sports, working out. Few could recognize that this is another typical lost of knowledge through what I call "illiterate by modernization". Yun Dong again, each has its own meanings.
Dong, "动", means what your Chinese friend would tell you. It means movement, practicing sport, move the legs, hands, and body. It iss always used in words that indicate action. Everyone knows how to do that.
Yun "运", when it is put in this context, not many people know what it means.
This word is typically used in transport of goods and things. It is also often used in words with meaning of luck. As a verb it also means to move something, A Qi Gong master would say "yun chi" to indicate his mastering of his Chi.In regards of our bodies, this word means letting our organs and internal functions to also exercise,  allowing our internals to move well, and  function in optimum state. So how is it achieved? Ancient script explained that when Dong, one can NOT Yun. Using a runner as an analogy, he is very unlikely to have any appetite to eat meals after his marathon. When he does, he'll very likely to feel ill. Dr. Xu pointed out that modern people could rarely stay still, even when they are sitting down, they'll be scratching here and there, shaking legs and moving hands; one reason is that people have no peace at heart anymore. (and that is also health related..)

So we see, life is based on both yun and dong! not just exercise. People who don't know how to go along with Nature's natural flow, the rhythms of our universe, eating the wrong food to make Yun very hard or constantly stressing their bodies without rest, will suffer health complications.

When I first started reading about nutrition, a question always bothered me deeply. That is, why is it that in the westernized system, nutrition, psychology and medicine are separated?! Not only do they have direct influences on one another, they often cause problems in each other's areas. Another question that puzzled me a lot is, why do the doctors in the westernized system have to look at my body as separate parts? Does my lung and heart and stomach function separately independently within each chambers under my skin?! A lot of Chinese people are very unhappy with the modern medicine system. Because, when they feel ill or in pain, a westernized doctor will take their blood, scan them, and if they see no lump for example, they just tell you you are not sick! You are not sick until you have symptoms that is.  But a traditional Chinese doctor is able to ask you about your habit, look at your face, eyes, palms, tongue, take your pulse, and smell your smell... to tell you what you have been eating wrong, which organ might be having a little problem, or even certain problem is caused by certain extreme emotions that you have. He looks at us as an entire organism, not as a machine that is being assembled by parts.

Chinese medicine is a profound practice of philosophy that is based on the rhythms of nature. The weather, times of day, seasonal change all plays an important role of how people should go about their lives in many aspects. It is a complete understanding in psychology, nutrition, and clinical practice that brings the immune system to an optimal level instead of merely getting rid of the symptoms. It is about the cause of health problems, and adjustment to maintain and re-achieve health.

Thursday, October 07, 2010

What in the World are They Spraying?

G.Edward Griffin's new documentary film is finally done and out.
The trailer below was from a while back, so there's no need to donate for finishing the project. That is not to say their team doesn't deserve support and donation..
People who are interested, go on their website, or google the title "what in the world are they spraying" to get yourselves informed.





It surely isn't very settling knowing Monsanto has been bragging about developing anti-aluminum seeds. Anything with the Monsanto's name on it should make people pause and take a closer look. Chem trail issue is quite heavily weighted in my heart. I wonder, are there REAL ORGANIC FOODS without contamination left? What kind of rights do we have on eating healthy if there is just no choice?!

This is not just about Chem trail, Monsanto, or health. For people whose inner voices have once quietly spoken out "there might be some harmful ingredients in these chemical tails above us", and didn't want to know or speak about it, it is quite understandable. Our jobs and social environment don't allow or want us to speak about it. It doesn't bring anything good. (so it seems.) Have you ever noticed, that whenever you are interested in something rather important, meaningful or a little more sophisticated than TV shows or basketball, you're always scold upon? "You are weird! You don't fit in! You think too much!" ...

YOU THINK TOO MUCH ????????

Yeah, don't think twice about the GMO foods they are feeding you without letting you know what they are; don't wonder about the education system while college grads are barely literate outside their majors; don't ever question how come your votes that went to your wishful ideologies before the presidents are elected, never ever in history has gotten what it was voting for...
Just get on your life, don't think, don't read books, watch your TV and here, chips are your best friends.

Yesterday someone wrote me a message, beautifully versed, sounding philosophical, yet extremely negative. One phrase went something like "If life is not our mourning and groaning on the road toward death, then, how come the more I walk forward, the less passionate I become, and the more hopeless I see in the future?" I asked him, this is a quite philosophical question, have you ever read anything about philosophy? "no, philosophy gives me headaches"...
No, the WORD philosophy intimidates you before you even read anything about it!

Asking questions in a fancy manner doesn't mean you know any substance about this question. packaging your questions doesn't mean you understand it. The superficial commercialization in every aspects of our lives have even penetrated the way people think. "Oh I think philosophy is useless so I don't read it, but I have an opinion about it!"...just like any other subject matter that has gotten us into this deep mess...You always hear an opinion from someone else, from a commenter on TV, from what your friends have said, whose ideas were also second-handed, then pass on as if it was yours. Have you lost your ability to research on your own and come to your own conclusion? "but everybody knows...." yeah, everybody knows that vegetable oils are healthier than organic butter as well..is it true???

I'm a little off topic at this point and am rambling randomly now. The point is, don't judge anything before you have done your homework and researched on it. We have the rights to be wrong, but we can't accuse anyone being right or wrong without understanding anything they put forth. It is a time for us to get back our ability to learn; informations and knowledges are out there, available, but how many among us really sit down patiently, and just really learn anything now?

Maybe what they are spraying, ARE destroying our brain cells. After all, Aluminum is also linked to Alzheimer diseases.



Bonus:
regarding that superficially sad question that friend threw at me, I have a more beautifully versed paragraph for it.

"I seem to be a brief light that flashes out but once in all the aeons of time - a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution, where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment only to vanish forever. Under such conditioning it seems impossible and even absurd to realize that myself does not reside in the drop alone, but in the whole surge of energy which ranges from the galaxies to the nuclear fields in my body. At this level of existence "I" am immeasurably old; my forms are infinite and their comings and goings are simply the pulses or vibrations of a single and eternal flow of energy."
             --Alan Watts "The Book on the taboo against knowing who you are"

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

right and rights




Needless to say, people who care about their health enough would have their own opinions made up for sure. So I would not make more comments on this issue and will just leave it for everyone to think it over.

I am very hesitant in expressing my opinions because I feel there are too many things to say on too many aspects interwoven with each other, yet I have very limited knowledge to avoid confusion. I am still learning. However it is very frustrating to see dis-info flying around all over the places and confusing people (and me). Maybe the best thing I could do is to put informations forward without judgement, and let everyone make minds on their own. After all, true freedom means we have the right to be wrong. So I reserve my right to be wrong, and respect others' right to be wrong as well. I will not convince anyone to believe what I believe in, or condemn any information that is different from my opinions.  Each of us is on an individual path to enlightenment and truth. No one has the right nor should he/she have the authority to tell what others how to think or act. Free will is what I believe each and every one of us must honor; wouldn't it be a complete different world when everyone learns to respect that? Do you know "we are right" is where the word "war" comes from?

That being said, I do want to put a few lines on the rights of people. The link above is a classic example where people's rights might be taken away silently without anyone noticing. I am not an American citizen, however, I do admire the fact that America was the only country which was free, shortly but free. To be honest, America is perhaps the greatest chance for people to gain their freedoms back, but this is not going to take place unless the American people start looking into their systems themselves and find out what does the word "America" really means. For that matter, I would like to ask a question, "Are you a U.S. citizen?" If you think I'm being weird, let me confuse you a little further and ask, "or are you an American citizen?" There is a world of difference between the two terms, maybe it is time for you to find out what that is. U.S.A vs. U.S.

Knowing is empowering. Next time when you find out your rights have been violated and ask "how can they do that?" you might want to take a closer took at your rights. Do you know what rights you have? or, have left?? Do you know there is a difference between Lawful and Legal system? Do you know there is a difference between People and people, people and person? Do you know your birth certificate is traded on the New York Stock Exchange? Knowledge does not come to us in easy manners, people who think they are free, need to think again.

For people who want to know more, here are a few search terms for starters (this also goes for people from Canada, U.K. and other western countries):
sovereignty, free man on the land,
you can also youtube (there are many more): Jordan Maxwell and Law,

Learn your rights, and find your truth.

love.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

what can I do to help the earth?


One easiest thing you can do:

Stop buying GMO foods and industrial foods. Support our green food supply by eating organic!! Not only does it prevent us from becoming sick in many kinds of diseases, we should know already, demand drives the supply.

How are we going to get healthy food if there's no market for it? How is the market going to supply it when we don't demand it?! Organic foods are only expansive because there are not enough supply. This doesn't mean just that. Not enough organic growing means we are losing our natural seeds, natural land and natural habitat. Besides, try leverage your health with the little more money you pay in eating the real food. You'll know what I mean when you start paying loads of money on drugs after you are sick from eating unhealthily.

It is ironic when people condemn environment destroyers while keep supporting the heartless corporate farms and getting sick while doing that. This unconscious hypocrisy must be questioned by everyone. Am I doing that because the lack of knowledge of good and bad? Or I know the problems with the unnatural food but I just don't care if I or my family keep becoming sicker? Or, even, I just pretend I care?!

Action speaks volume against pale words. 
if you care about the environment, and the health of you, your family, and the earth, be the growing demand of organic food, and help the farmers to get our earth back from the cold corporations.

peace.