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Sun Simiao – Tang Dynasty:
***The renowned physician Sun Simiao pursued neither fame nor profit.***
Sun Simiao, a renowned physician of the Tang Dynasty, possessed extraordinary medical skills. Being upright, honest, and noble, he healed many people, so much so that he was respectfully called the Medicine King.
According to legend, Sun Simiao led a quiet life, free from worldly desires. He lived in solitude on Mount Taibai, quietly cultivating the Tao. One day, while walking in the woods and along the lakeshores, he saw a shepherd boy striking a white snake. Seeing the snake’s torment, he could not stand by and watch, so he offered the young shepherd his only valuable robe in exchange for the small white snake.
He took the snake home and treated its wounds carefully.
The little white snake healed very quickly, and Sun Simiao released it into the mountains. Not long after, a young man dressed in white came to visit him. He showed great respect for Sun Simiao and invited him to a palace. He revealed that the little white snake was the son of the Dragon King of the Jing Yang Water Palace. To repay Sun Simiao’s kindness, the Dragon King offered him the palace’s rare and precious treasures, but Sun Simiao refused.
Sun Simiao said to the Dragon King: “I cultivate the Tao; I have no need of material goods, please keep them for yourself.” The Dragon King wanted to repay the favor and knew that Sun Simiao loved reading medical books.
So he asked one of his ministers to track down certain ancient medical books, generations old, and gave them to Sun Simiao. Sun Simiao gladly accepted them. He later studied those books diligently and applied what he learned in his medical practice. These researches are all recorded in his book, A Thousand Golden Methods.
Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty greatly admired Sun Simiao’s reputation and summoned him to the imperial court. The emperor noted that Sun Simiao had a dignified appearance and divine composure. The emperor said to Sun Simiao: “After our meeting today, I now believe there is an elixir of youth; please share it with me.
Sun Simiao replied: “People pursue divinity and alchemy for a purpose, wanting both to prolong their lives and to make profits. I don’t think they will achieve what they want. How can an ordinary person like me desire immortality? I study medicine and practice the Tao to heal and save more people. My medicine is only for curing illnesses and cannot prolong life. I apologize for not being able to fulfill Your Majesty’s wish. Please allow me to return to the mountains.”
The emperor tried to persuade him to stay, but Sun Simiao eventually left.
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THE LIVER & THE HUN
It’s not just in Western medicine that the liver is considered a formidable storage organ. The Traditional Chinese Medicine describes the liver as the reservoir of blood. The blood, in turn, also has storage functions. It is the carrier and anchor of our consciousness. Together, the liver and the blood form a kind of internal hard drive for our memories, referred to as the Hun. The Hun stands for the aspect of our consciousness that stores memory. The Hun partially represents the Western concept of the subconscious. It stores everything we experience as images and feelings. It is like a photo album of our life story. How far does our story go back? That’s a matter of opinion. Some people believe our biography begins with our birth, others see our beginning at the time of conception, and then there are those who consider reincarnation not as a philosophical construct but as a reality. The Hun is therefore also referred to as the ‘wandering soul’. It carries impressions and experiences from one life to the next. Whichever it may be, the Hun has a considerable influence on how we see and experience the world around us.
If we let the Hun take the helm, we’ll be entirely at the mercy of being controlled by our subconscious. We will be governed by habitual patterns from the past. Past experiences will determine how we see the present. To some extent that’s of course perfectly normal, it’s part of the learning curve of our life. But depending on the content of the hard drive, it can be a very limiting and curtailing factor and significantly impair the leeway for manoeuvre so important for the liver meridian. The Hun, as a kind of hard drive, may contain programmes which favour behavioural routines and thus boycott our plans for growth and evolving. We tend to react without reflection and lose our ability for conscious action. We are no longer the captain of the ship that’s our life, we’re a mere stow-away. We rattle off the same programme, again and again, like a stuck record player.
From the book: „Meridians – Maps of the Soul“
Mike Mandl / Singing Dragon
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