I can heal myself. 27. Keep in good health by tranquilized mind

Poet Kim Sang-yong’s poem, “I Will Open a window for Others,” ended with “Why do you live? Laugh,” but for a long time, I have lived with the question, “Why do I live?” When I was an intern at a geriatric ward, I was deeply shocked as I encountered the corpses of people I had become close friends with. He felt that if he couldn’t come up with his own definition of life and death, he wouldn’t be able to see patients. Since then, on the one hand, I read and compared the Bible, Diamond Sutra, and Tao Te Ching, and on the other hand, I focused on meditation and Qi training through deep breathing.

I remember that he finally finished his meditation and comparative analysis of the Bible and scriptures, gave his own definition, and closed the pages of Emperor Neijing, the Bible of Traditional Chinese Medicine, saying, “I will not indulge in theories any more.” Through continued meditation since then, one morning, I was finally able to feel my larger self, who was riddled with selfishness and exhausted from a sense of duty, and became a being of extremely peaceful and benevolent energy without any selflessness, becoming one with the macrocosm. Of course, after that, when I returned to reality, I became a miserable, selfish being again, but what changed was that I was able to watch my miserable self.

Let’s refine the truth once again in Winnipeg, a city where white and green colors each last six months. “Inherently, there is no life and death, and the material world is nothing more than repeated gathering and dispersion, so let’s not be too obsessed with material things. “The important thing is to try to become a better spiritual being through training in this life.”

The following is my favorite phrase from the Emperor’s Internal Classics.

Yeomdamheomu, Jingijongji, mental naesu, byeonganjongrae (恬淡虚无, true water 之, 精神内守, 病安从来). If you keep your mind calm and empty of desires, true energy will follow, and your body and mind will be at peace. How could you get sick?

Dr. Jin-man Kim, director of Peace Oriental Clinic