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enters the liver and kidney channels.
Bob Flaws • The Tao of Healthy Eating
Soybean (yellow)
Bob Flaws • The Tao of Healthy Eating
sick on my journey ,
my dreams go wandering
on this withered field
Matsuo Basho, Death Haiku, 1694
philo-sophic-ally-speaking • Matsuo Bashō’s Death Haiku
Dis-ease is yin; it sometimes comes along to help you see how to balance the yang of life. People mostly get sick from burning their vital power through too much activity, and yang.
Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
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Bob Flaws • The Tao of Healthy Eating

Lao-tzu’s essential teaching of wu-wei, on the other hand, illustrates the futility of our attempts to control life. He emphasizes that it is only when you give up forcing or controlling anything that you begin to get the kind of control you always wanted, but never knew existed.