| Chinese use acupuncture to release chi in your ... | | body. By putting needles in certain points in your body. This helps chi to flow through your body and releases healing. Even though this has been a proven fact to work, do you think Christians should get acupuncture? I personally do not see nothing wrong with it, it does help your body in many ways. Just as long as you do not participate in their religious, I believe it is ok. what do you think on this issue and why? | |
| | Zen Buddhism | | Through his popular book `The Way of Zen' (1957), the British-born American philosopher Alan Watts introduced Americans to the Zen school of Buddhism, which has a long tradition of development in China and Japan. Zen (Chan in Chinese) is a Japanese term meaning "meditation”. It is a major school of Japanese Buddhism that claims to transmit the spirit of Buddhism, or the total enlightenment as achieved by the founder of the religion, the Buddha.Zen has its basis in the conviction that the world and its components are not many things. They are, rather, one reality. The one is part of a larger wholeness to which some people assign the name of God. Reason, by analyzing the diversity of the world, obscures this oneness. It can be apprehended by the non-rational part of the mind--the intuition. Enlightenment about the nature of reality comes not by rational examination but through meditation.Meditation has been an integral part of Buddhism from the beginning. Nevertheless, a school of meditation grew up in India and was taken to China by Bodhidharma about 520 AD. When the meditation school arrived in China, it had a strong foundation on which to build--Taoism, the ancient... | |
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