Chinese Metaphysics never fail to amaze me. When we talk about Chinese Metaphysics, we are mostly talking about the Five Arts. What are these Five Arts? They are :山 醫 命 卜 相
Loosely translated, they mean: Mountain, Healing, Destiny, Prediction, Appearance. These literal translations don't help much. Perhaps you can relate to the following examples (not exhaustive):
Mountain - Kung Fu
Medicine - Traditional Chinese Medicine
Destiny - Ba Zi,
Prediction - QMDJ
Appearance - Feng Shui
While I continue my pursuit of knowledge in Mountain, Destiny, Prediction and Appearance, I have lately come to realize my interests in Traditional Chinese Medicine. All of these take significant amount of time to master, and I'm definitely risking over-diversifying and not paying enough attention to each of the arts. But then again, all these are interrelated and are based on the same fundamental ancient knowledge, and should find synergy in learning, right? I don't know for now.
There are many who are skeptical of TCM. And yet none of the doctors that I have spoken to have rejected TCM; their full acknowledgement of its effectiveness is only hampered by the absence of empirical evidence as in Western medicine.
Yin-Yang theory. Five Elements. Sound familiar. TCM takes these to a new level, from a different perspective, but the fundamental core knowledge remains the same. Think you'll be able to relate to them? I sure hope so for myself, as I start this long journey of getting to know this ancient knowledge.
I have started to visit a TCM practitioner regularly. She completely enjoys her work. Charges differs according to the patient's earning power. Same philosophy as me. She helps out on a charitable basis one day out of six in her work week, and this makes her really happy. She told me that learning TCM is something that is beneficial to oneself and others. I couldn't agree with her more.
Inspired by her, I will try to write on the topic as I find out more about TCM. Definitely not a qualified Chinese physician yet, so I'll not write on remedies and deductions. Will share more about the fundamental knowledge along the way.
Have a great weekend!
