Posted on May 4, 2008 by Yael
Confession:
I am in love with a book.
It’s a bit difficult to explain, I mean- if I were to say “I’m in love with a character in a book” that wouldn’t be too weird (just a little bit), but an actual book, it’s not very clear how that can happen.
I fell in love with The Seven Emotions
from the first moment I started reading it.
As with all the books by Father Claude Larre and Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallee, the philosophy, it’s depth and choice of words make it’s reading to a challenge. I find that each time I read a book by these authors, I gain a source of information but also a source that makes me wonder more and more, ask more questions, and leaves me with a good sort of confusion.
What is a good sort of confusion?
The sort of confusion that makes you read more and think more. That can only lead you to know more and mainly- it makes you understand.
Posted on February 27, 2008 by Yael
One of the first posts on CMNotes was about Chinese Medicine Books for the first year.
When I was writing that title, I did not think that as of the 2nd year, there’s really no way to say which book is most suitable for what year. I mean, most of us start reading Elisabeth and Father Larre’s work on the 2nd year, for example.
So I’m just going to mention books that I feel are very important for any student to read, and of course every practitioner can go back to the books and learn something new. Which is an important point regarding reading books in CM, at least to my humble opinion. I think that what you understand in a book on the 4th year is quite different then what you can understand from the very same book 3 years after reading it for the first time.
And then I thought- why not make different posts for different subjects? I get to write about more books and you get more information about books according to their subject.
Yes. I sometimes surprise even myself.
There isn’t really a field of “Chinese psychology”.
We don’t separate body and mind, and we always pay attention to both aspects in man. But sometimes, and I’ll whisper it so no one will hear it but you, we simply need to address one aspect more than the other.
I find that studying TCM gives a very superficial idea of human psychology and I also think that TCM itself doesn’t really address psychological issues- big or small.
