My last blog was about creating a happy future by taking responsibility for your own actions, words, and images (thoughts) within the field you recognize. In this blog I‘ll explain about deepening that practice. Action – Remorse – Gratitude – Praise In Buddhist Sutras it says that a person has
Today I’d like to talk about true human nature. “Human nature” usually means “what makes people human” or “what the essence of a human being is.” “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them.” — Genesis 1:27 We learned from Genesis that
In my last blog and the previous one to that, I talked about a point of view. This time I’m going to introduce you to another point of view in a short story called “This Guy Just Changed the Way We Think About God and the Universe.” “This Guy Just
In my previous blog I talked about “death,” and this week a patient told me about their fear of death, so this blog topic is about the “future after death.” As I said in my previous blog, I prefer to believe we are beings of energy, and we come to
I got asked this question a couple days ago, and it kept spinning in my mind. It’s a very simple question. The definition of “spirituality” in the dictionary is: “the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.” I don’t think
“Wow!” When I try to take a picture of something, and my smartphone shows my face instead. Somehow I am surprised each time it happens! We all use smartphones everyday and look at it so many times. In Mahayana Buddhism, especially in the Yogachara, the doctrine of consciousness, and Saint
This week, I went to my friend’s cottage and had dinner. We are all in our late 40’s and early 50’s. The topic was ‘Young people these days’ and ‘why do they act the way they do?’. It’s a typical topic. One friend starts by saying, “A friend of mine,
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”Maybe this was a typical question when you were a child, but I didn’t like that question. I think I know why I didn’t like it and wasn’t too fond of that question. Adults who ask those questions expect certain answers,
Patient Stories: Edwin After a terrible accident 8 years ago, I felt like I was 92 years old all the time. I had no power or energy, and felt my body as if it was 300lbs! Then I had one Tao Shiatsu treatment and I felt motivated for the first
Working on My Heart and Emotions Ms. M.M. (from Tokyo) One day I came across Ryokyu sensei’s book Tao Shiatsu: Life Medicine for the 21st Century. The book shows how Tao Shiatsu was structured through Ryokyu sensei’s realizations from his training and experience based on Oriental medical philosophy. Its contents
My last blog was about creating a happy future by taking responsibility for your own actions, words, and images (thoughts) within the field you recognize. In this blog I‘ll explain about deepening that practice. Action – Remorse – Gratitude – Praise In Buddhist Sutras it says that a person has
Today I’d like to talk about true human nature. “Human nature” usually means “what makes people human” or “what the essence of a human being is.” “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them.” — Genesis 1:27 We learned from Genesis that
In my last blog and the previous one to that, I talked about a point of view. This time I’m going to introduce you to another point of view in a short story called “This Guy Just Changed the Way We Think About God and the Universe.” “This Guy Just
In my previous blog I talked about “death,” and this week a patient told me about their fear of death, so this blog topic is about the “future after death.” As I said in my previous blog, I prefer to believe we are beings of energy, and we come to
I got asked this question a couple days ago, and it kept spinning in my mind. It’s a very simple question. The definition of “spirituality” in the dictionary is: “the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.” I don’t think
“Wow!” When I try to take a picture of something, and my smartphone shows my face instead. Somehow I am surprised each time it happens! We all use smartphones everyday and look at it so many times. In Mahayana Buddhism, especially in the Yogachara, the doctrine of consciousness, and Saint
This week, I went to my friend’s cottage and had dinner. We are all in our late 40’s and early 50’s. The topic was ‘Young people these days’ and ‘why do they act the way they do?’. It’s a typical topic. One friend starts by saying, “A friend of mine,
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”Maybe this was a typical question when you were a child, but I didn’t like that question. I think I know why I didn’t like it and wasn’t too fond of that question. Adults who ask those questions expect certain answers,
Patient Stories: Edwin After a terrible accident 8 years ago, I felt like I was 92 years old all the time. I had no power or energy, and felt my body as if it was 300lbs! Then I had one Tao Shiatsu treatment and I felt motivated for the first
Working on My Heart and Emotions Ms. M.M. (from Tokyo) One day I came across Ryokyu sensei’s book Tao Shiatsu: Life Medicine for the 21st Century. The book shows how Tao Shiatsu was structured through Ryokyu sensei’s realizations from his training and experience based on Oriental medical philosophy. Its contents
