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The Complete Book of Chinese Health and Healing Quotes

“Flexibility, spontaneity, and complete freedom of thought and action are the only ways to respond successfully to the constant flux of nature and thus live in accord with the Tao.”

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“Food has become a cause of disease rather than a guardian of health in the modern world. Once regarded as the central pillar of life and the most effective of all medicines, food is now a major contributing factor in cancer, heart disease, arthritis, mental illness, and many other pathological conditions.

Virtually monopolized by agricultural and industrial cartels, public food supplies, are processed and packaged to produce profits and prolong shelf life, not to promote health and prolong human life.

It seems incredible that public health authorities permit the unrestricted use of hydrogenated vegetable oils, refined sugar, chemical preservatives, toxic pesticides, and over 5,000 other artificial food additives that have repeatedly been proven to cause cancer, impair immunity, and otherwise erode human health, while restricting the medical use of nutrients, herbs, acupuncture, fasting, and other traditional therapies that have been shown to prevent and cure the very diseases caused by chemical contaminants in food and water.”

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“In light of the evidence against antibiotics, you should think twice before using them, and when you do, you should increase your daily dosage of vitamin and mineral supplements to replenish lost nutrients and also take a supplemental source of lactobacteria, such as Rejuvelac, to restore the friendly intestinal flora destroyed by the antibiotics.”

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“In short, to empty the mind means 'to polish the mirror', thereby permitting clear reflections of external phenomena and spontaneous insights into the true nature of reality.”

The Complete Book of Chinese Health and Healing

“In traditional Oriental societies, pregnant women were carefully screened from viewing or hearing any unpleasant sights or sounds, especially those which arouse anger, fear, grief, or any other extreme emotional response, in order to prevent adrenaline, cortisone, and other hazardous biochemicals from being released and transferred to their developing foetuses via the bloodstream. This may have prevented mental, emotional, and physical abnormalities in their offspring.”

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“Nootropic drugs can be important weapons in the battle against premature degeneration, senility, and death.”

The Complete Book of Chinese Health and Healing

“Only firm intent and alert awareness can muster the will-power required to liberate yourself from the simian clutches of the emotional mind, which clings to the human ego as the proverbial 'monkey' of drug addiction clings to addicts.”

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“The body concentrates vitamin C around brain and nerve cells specifically to protect them from oxidation and free-radical damage, because vitamin C is one of nature's most powerful antioxidants.”

The Complete Book of Chinese Health and Healing

“The brain and the central nervous system have such enormous needs for vitamin C that they actually operate 'vitamin-C pumps' to extract it from the circulating blood and concentrate it in the cerebrospinal fluid, where its level is ten times greater than in the blood.

From the cerebrospinalfluid, another pump transfers vitamin C directly into the sheaths enveloping brain and nerve cells, concentrating it by another factor of ten, which means that the cells of the brain and central nervous system are bathed in a solution of vitamin C that is 100 times more concentrated than in blood plasma and other bodily fluids. Vitamin C is obviously very important to the health of brain and nerve cells.”

The Complete Book of Chinese Health and Healing

“The herbs he recommended most highly for promoting health and prolonging life were ginseng, gotu kola, Polygonum multiflorum, and garlic.”

The Complete Book of Chinese Health and Healing

“Vitamin C also protects other tissues from free-radical damage. Whenever it encounters a free radical, it sacrifices one of its own electrons in order to 'pacify' and neutralize the intruder, destroying itself in the process.

This running battle between vitamin C and free radicals occurs hundreds of thousands of times per second, and if you fail to supply your body with adequate quantities of this friendly free-radical scavenger, the enemy will eventually erode your body by attrition.”

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“When the mind is clear and calm, the images it reflects are real and the knowledge it gathers is true. When the mind is agitated and confused, it's like throwing a stone into a still pond, or holding a camera with a shaky hand: the images it reflects are distorted and do not accord with reality.”

The Complete Book of Chinese Health and Healing

“Without sufficient supplies of vitamin C, the spinal cord deteriorates from chronic free-radical damage caused by lipid peroxidation, and the entire body then becomes vulnerable to disease and degeneration because of faulty communication between brain and body and impairment of biofeedback between the nervous and immune systems.”

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The Tao Of Health, Sex and Longevity Quotes

“Fusing Fire and Water

This is a moving exercise in which the hands help raise and lower chee between the Sea of Energy (water) and the heart (fire).

Posture: Horse stance, or sitting.

Technique: Exhale thoroughly and bring your hands together just below the navel, with palms up and fingertips about an inch apart. Begin inhaling slowly through the nose and slowly raise your upturned hands the torso until they reach the nipples. Time it so that inhalation is complete and hands reach the heart about the same time.

Apply the Three Locks and retain the breath 3 to 5 seconds, then turn the palms over to face downward and slowly push them back down the torso as you exhale slowly through the nose, timing it so that hands reach bottom as lungs empty. Pause briefly, relax abdomen, then turn the palms back up and begin another cycle. Repeat 6 to 10 breaths.

Pointers: Breathe and move hands in unison. Keep shoulders, arms, and neck muscles loose and relaxed, and “sink” the breath down as deeply as possible during retention.

Benefits: This exercise moves energy up and down between the 'fire' of heart and the 'water' of the navel region, thus blending and balancing these two types of energy. It regulates and deepens heartbeat and develops awareness of the Sea of Energy as the body’s chee headquarters.”

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“Taoists, on the other hand, speak not of a supreme being but of a supreme state of being – a sublime state that lies deeply locked within every human being and can be reached only through the greatest personal effort and self-discipline.”

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“The essential Taoist approach to life is captured in the phrase ching-jing wu-wei, literally, 'sitting still doing nothing'.

Doing nothing doesn’t mean sitting around all day like a bump on a log, but rather doing only those things that really need to be done and doing them in a way that does not run counter to the natural order of Tao and the patterned flow of cosmic forces.

It means engaging only in spontaneous, unpremeditated activity, doing things purely for their own sake rather than for ulterior motives, and living in harmony with rather than trying to conquer nature.”

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“At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”


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“The Yellow Emperor reigned over a loose confederation of Chinese tribes around 2700 BC. He is credited with having discovered the secret of immortality through the subtle blending of male and female essence during sexual intercourse and the transmutation of the resulting 'elixir' into pure energy and spirit.

He kept a harem of 1,200 women with whom he coupled frequently according to the tenets of the 'Tao of Yin and Yang', and at the age of 111 he is said to have achieved immortality.”

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“Putrefaction and fermentation are the main causes of all kinds of digestive problems, including gas, heartburn, bloating, constipation, foul-smelling stools, bleeding hemorrhoids, colitis, and more.

Many so-called 'allergies' are also a direct consequence of poor food combinations: the bloodstream absorbs toxins from the fermented, putrefied mass that fills the intestines, and these toxins in turn cause rashes, hives, headaches, nausea and other symptoms that are usually classified as 'allergies'.”

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“The highest goal of spiritual immortality can only be reached through the living vehicle of the human body and its powerful vitality. But once the adept has arrived at this goal, he may only realize the ultimate truth by abandoning the body for his spiritual 'flight into space'.

A good analogy here is a chicken embryo growing inside its eggshell. If the shell breaks before incubation is complete, there is no life; similarly, if an adept's body 'breaks' and dies before he has completed 'incubation' of his spirit-body, he loses his chance of spiritual immortality after death.

When the inner embryo in a chicken egg is fully developed, however, it must crack open the shell and discard it in order to live. Similarly, once the adept has fully developed his spirit-body, he must abandon the flesh sooner or later in order to let his spirit roam freely in the cosmos.

This exit occurs through an actual crack that develops in the suture on the crown of the skull in such adepts. Only newborn babies and the most advanced adepts have such loose sutures in their skulls.”

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“The same foods capable of triggering an allergic reaction when incorrectly combined often do not produce any harmful effects when consumed in accordance with the laws of trophology.”

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“The Tao of cultivating life requires one to remain as fluid and flexible as possible. You don't have to stay still for too long, and you don't have to exhaust yourself either.”

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“The true sage rules over people 'caring for and feeding them, but not claiming them for himself', and eliminates the grounds for disputes rather than punishing the consequences.”

The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity

“Water benefits all living things without taking credit for doing so. Indeed, after bestowing its life-giving benefits to field and stream, man and beast, water is perfectly content to puddle up and rest in the lowest, darkest places on earth. It falls as rain from the heavens and, when its work is done, it flows down into the deepest recesses of the earth.”

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“We put together thirty spokes and we call this a wheel, but it is from space, where there is nothing, which depends the utility of the wheel.

We mold the clay to make a vessel, but it is from space, where there is nothing, that depends
the utility of the vessel.

We drill doors and windows to build a house, but it is the spaces, where there is nothing, that depends the utility of the house.

Therefore, just as we benefit from what is, we should also recognize the usefulness of what is not.”

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“Researchers know that normal bone is constantly being remodeled (broken down and rebuilt).”


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