2025.01.13 - Time flies so fast, don't go forward anymore
Ping Xia
2025.01.13 – Time Flies, Don’t Keep Moving Forward
Selected Scripture Reading:
When youth follows this path, grounding themselves in reason and applying effort, they move forward without looking back, turning away from darkness toward light. They advance civilization for the world, create happiness for humanity, and with their youthful selves build youthful families, youthful nations, youthful peoples, youthful humanity, youthful Earth, and youthful cosmos, thereby enjoying an endless life.
There Is No Such Thing as Useless Reading https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/lT4KnGa0aR94zZzuBDGzxw
As long as young people are willing to learn and read, a variety of strong support measures are in place to safeguard their pursuit of the future. In this era, they have enough confidence to gaze at the stars and achieve their life goals and personal values through study. Life’s road is long; sometimes you’ll walk slowly, sometimes you’ll stray, but as long as you still hold a book in your hands, a bright clearing will eventually appear. In the ocean of knowledge, each of us can find the solution to our lives.
Cai Zhizhong: A Calm Mind Is the Way https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/hO892GfPsm7dJ7Tix4nTSw
It’s like many people who sound flawless in casual conversation, yet stumble when put on stage. Many can play a perfect hand at the table, but when sent into the arena they fall apart. That’s losing the calm mind. So a calm mind means understanding oneself. Then, when it’s time to perform, one can actually do better than expected. Our progress comes from each performance being better than the last.
The Sound of Waves Continues | Traditional Chinese Medicine Must Deepen Reform https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/iJT7Nde2hqlWUXe5mvcSfA
For the most characteristically Chinese discipline of TCM, we must change our thinking and deepen reform today, or risk a generational decline leading to extinction. The core of reform is to stop using a Western‑medicine model to restrict and reshape TCM’s concepts. Applying Western‑style regulation of chemical drugs to natural herbal medicines completely detaches them from TCM theory and experience; inevitably, fewer and fewer herbal medicines will be approved for use in the future.
Finding the Anchor Needle, Simplifying the Complex https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/lChQnBcxghHS4F-KmiVdJw
When I look at a patient, regardless of how many states or symptoms they present, I imagine what their best condition might be—joy, warmth, fullness, softness, elasticity. I then restore all the chaotic states to that original or ideal condition, and the treatment is complete. This method is called “using simplicity to govern complexity”: a simple approach to handle more complicated situations. In learning TCM, we look for the “central” vertical line—the original state—so that all other disordered states move toward that central line.
Time Flies, Don’t Keep Moving Forward… https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/q5eSgPPkiE7JSQsxdRPQyw
“You are young now, full of energy, running everywhere, but after you reach your fifties, you should stop moving forward…” My master has repeatedly reminded me to settle down and practice before I turn sixty‑four. Why do the elderly fall ill? Because their qi and blood no longer flow. Find a place with good feng shui that gathers wind and qi, sit quietly, guard the spirit, and wait for insight to arise… “I know how to escape life and death.”
Originally written by Ping Xia (平侠) and published in Chinese on 拾一集 (Weekly Reflections). Translated and adapted for DriftSeas with permission.