Category Archives: health
My father-in-law has gout
Note: Hazen, this is for you. CL and I went over to her parent’s apartment last night for dinner and I found my father-in-law hobbling around, obviously in pain. It turns out he has gout. His right foot is swollen [...]
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I am billions
One of the most fascinating insights of both modern science and Buddhism, is that what we call “I” doesn’t really exist. Sure, we always feel like one single, solid individual — but we are far from it. There’s just a [...]
Eating habits
In response to a post by Leo Babuta on his blog Zen Habits, I wrote this reply which sums up my thoughts on the healthiness of Chinese eating habits: I’m living in China now, and I can say that it’s [...]
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The Chinese eat everything. Even vegetables.
Everyone knows that the Chinese tend to eat everything. And when we think about that, we often imagine meat: Intestines, tongues, snakes, scorpions, brains, snouts, feet, bone marrow, and every thing else that stretches our definition of “edible.” But in [...]
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