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Bite-Size Chinese Medicine

Quick notes mostly about fitting old-world wisdom into a modern American life.

The entitlement zone



It's tempting to treat the items in Domain 1 like entitlements. From that vantage point, it’s disappointing, frustrating, enraging(!) when we don’t get our due.

But the only thing we really have title to when we come into this world (though for an uncertain term) is a human life, which, according to human record, includes both Domains 1 and 2.

It seems more accurate to say that the items in Domain 1 are simply beneficial, as they have regularly lead to health, harmony, prosperity, and peace for large numbers of people. To promote them is to live an upright life and be as a god amongst living things.

And that can be hard to do from the confines of the entitlement zone.

 
 
 

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