2025.08.04 - Let Traditional Chinese Medicine Return to Life

Title: 2025.08.04 – Bringing Traditional Chinese Medicine Back into Everyday Life

Reading Highlights:

Confucius said: “If one does not know destiny, one cannot be a gentleman; if one does not know propriety, one cannot establish oneself; if one does not know speech, one cannot understand others.” — Analects, Yao’s Chapter

A Modern “Slacker” Youth Awakened by Mao’s Poetry https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Sza6wQ_zY0-iZK3u5tik-Q
A friend told me they’re facing difficulties, feeling lost, and want to study Chairman Mao. Where should they start? Reading Selected Works of Mao or his biography are good options, but we can also turn to his poetry to help clear the fog. When you feel confused and oppressed, try reading Mao Zedong’s verses. Why? Poetry is a compact, striking form—memorable, rhythmic, and rich in meaning. Anyone familiar with Chairman Mao knows his poems are exceptional; even in the direst circumstances his verses convey a positive, never‑give‑up spirit that offers huge motivation and endless insight.

Digital Turnaround https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ybsq50v50IOQAjMC_f8QhQ
Many Chinese may not realize their own strengths. “Unity of heaven and humanity” is a priceless protective umbrella for humanity. My mentor, a professor at Cambridge’s Trinity College, watched Li Ziqi’s videos and was moved to tears in an afternoon, sighing that the West is like Oliver Twist—industrial revolutions, colonial plunder, endless smog for three centuries.

Save Food, Clean Bowls Bring Blessings https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/R5w1euMsT-LfOzTBPHxxUg
Every bowl of porridge and every grain of rice should be cherished as hard‑won; every thread and scrap reminds us that resources are scarce. My master often says: “In a lifetime, the amount of rice you eat is predetermined; wasting a single grain costs you a fraction of your fortune. Everyone must treasure food.”

Liu Lihong | Why We All Need the Study of Life https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ny6wF8zhpruaHRuXG8dysQ
In Confucius’s view—or in Confucian learning— a gentleman represents an ideal, complete life, and the basic prerequisite for such a life is “knowing destiny,” i.e., understanding life itself. So reading the Analects becomes fascinating: the ultimate goal of learning is to know destiny, to know life. This lets us lift the whole Analects, even the entire Confucian tradition and Chinese culture, with a single guiding thread.

Let Traditional Chinese Medicine Return to Daily Life https://app2rsfd38t7842.xet.citv.cn/v3/course/alive/l_685f8c36e4b0694c5af54ac5?app_id=app2rsfd38t7842 https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/1923822930506282454
Medicine is about appropriate dosage; the method is the tool. TCM is about finding the right place for yourself in everyday life. It is a Chinese way of living, a philosophy of life. Studying TCM teaches you what to choose, what to strive for, what to let go, and how to achieve balance in a given state. Learning TCM is like learning to drive—not fixing a car. The best doctor is yourself; the best hospital is the kitchen.

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Originally written by Ping Xia (平侠) and published in Chinese on 拾一集 (Weekly Reflections). Translated and adapted for DriftSeas with permission.