2. ● United States have one heart
attack every 40 seconds
● Every year, 800,000 people
suffer from heart attacks, 75%
for the first time
● 20% of heart attacks lead to
fatal death (mostly male)
● Total medical cost for
treatment/recovery is $229
billion USD in 2018
3. ● 90% of those who had their
first heart attack consider it
their “Wake-Up Call” to
confront their own mortality
● 80% said their heart attack
affects them emotionally and
spiritually
● 85% live their remaining life
as if they have been given a
second chance
4. Qi Therapy as a Spiritual Practice
Mind
Body
Qi
Exercise Metta
“Mindfulness” Meditation
10. Spiritual Yoga = Patañjali Yoga (Purusha)
● Three P’s: Patañjali (sage), Purusha
(“cosmic”), and the Prakriti (“earthy”)
● Patañjali (Yogi in North India, lived
between 400 ~ 500 CE)
● Author of Yogasūtra (195 sutras); also
Mahābhāṣya (Sanskirt grammar) and
Patanjalatantra (medieval medicine,
aka Ayurveda)
● Ashtanga (Eight Limbs of Yoga)
11. Eight Limbs of Yoga
Morality (戒)
Duties (律)
Postures (調身)
Breath (調息)
Sense “Protocol” (攝六根)
One-Mind
(一心)
“Chán or Zen” (禪)
Bliss (定)
12. American Yoga = Hatha Yoga (“Physical” Yoga)
Appeared 11th to 13th CE
● To preserve “Bindu”
(semen and digestive
fluid) through inverted
poses
● Men should abstain
from sex
● Women is considered
inferior and not ideal for
Hatha Yoga
14. Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra (瑜伽師地論)
● “Treatise on the Foundation for Yoga Practitioners”
● Translated and brought back to China by
Xuanzang (玄奘法師 602 ~ 604 CE)
● From the Indian Yogācāra school containing
unique doctrines : Eight Consciousnesses and the
ālaya-vijñāna (Stored Consciousness or Karma)
● Authored by another yogi Asanga (無著 400 CE)
● Also attributed to Maitreya (彌勒菩薩)
16. Śākyamuni (Gautama Buddha) was a Yogi
● Born a prince in 6th to 5th BCE
● Renounciated at age 39
● Practiced as an ascetic for 6 years
● 1st Yogi Teacher: Āḷāra Kālāma (attained
ākiñcaññāyatana "Sphere of Nothingness")
● 2nd Yogi Teacher: Uddaka Rāmaputta
(attained nevasaññānāsaññāyatana "Sphere
of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception")
● Taught the “Āgama” for 12 years (Pali Canon)
21. Professor Kip Throne
● Born June 1, 1940
● B.S. Caltech - 1962
● Ph.D. Princeton - 1965
● Associate Professor - 1967
● Professor, Caltech - 1970
● Feynman Professor of Physics - 1991
● Retired from Caltech - 2009
● 50 Ph.D. students, 2017 Nobel Prize
● Expert in gravitational physics & astrophysics
22. Miller is the first planet orbiting
Gargantua (a black hole 100 million
times the mass of our sun)
1 Hour on Miller = 7 years on Earth
23. Kāmavacara-devā (Six Deva Realms) 1 day (year on earth)
Parinirmita-Vaśavartin (他化自在天) 1,600
Nirmāṇarati (化樂天) 800
Tushita (兜率天) 400
Yaamaah (夜摩天) 200
Tāvatiṃsa (忉利天) 100
Four Heavenly Kings (四大天王天) 50
1 hour on Miller's planet = 7 years on Earth
(24 hours = 168 years)
24. 「一切無所著、只有行聚」
(Nothing is Solid, Only Vibration)
Particle-Wave Duality
Rupa (Physical)
Nama (Meta Physical)
bhaṅga ñana (滅)
ref: 解脫道論 (Pali:Vimuttimagga)
31. Fear is in Our Mind ….
Fear is created in our minds.
…
Close your eyes.
…
Let your mind be at peace.
…
Feel the air you breathe in
and out.
…
Breathe in.
…
Breathe out.
…
Slowly.
35. Five Planets (五星) and Five “Elements” (五行)
Source of
Life
Cradle of
Life
36. Five “Organs”, Five Emotions, Five Seasons, etc.
臟 (Solid/Treasure/Yin)
Kidney (Hormone), Liver (Nerve),
Heart (Vitality), Spleen (Operation),
Lung (Distribution)
腑 (Empty/Channel/Yang)
Bladder, Gallbladder, Small
Intestines, Stomach, Large
Intestines