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This book is edited and designed by the Editorial Committee of Cultural China series.
Text by Shi Xinggui
Translation by Zhao Gang
Design by Wang Wei
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ISBN: 978-1-60220-165-1
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Contents
Chapter I Curing Mental Anxiety to Prevent Physical Disease
2. Not Enslaved by Material Gain
4. Prevention Is the Best Cure
5. Keeping Fit through Exercise
8. Not Focusing on Your Illness
9. What You Do for Others Will Eventually Benefit Yourself
Chapter II Curing Mental Anxiety through Zen Medicine
1. Managing Your Life with Industry and Frugality
2. A Calm Mood Brings Good Luck
3. Breaking Away from Constraints
5. Learning to Be Grateful
6. Thinking from Others’ Perspective
7. Unburdening Your Mind
8. Giving Help without Expecting Returns
9. Disregarding Personal Gains or Losses
10. Being Ready to Cooperate with Others
11. Harboring Fewer Worldly Desires
12 Keeping a Low Profile
13. Being Thankful for Criticism
14. Accepting the Reality and Changing Yourself
15. Playing up Strengths and Avoiding Weaknesses
16. Being a Good Listener
17. Being Modest
18. Having a Clear Conscience
19. Ridding Yourself of Bad Habits
20. Persevering in Medical Treatment
21. Time Management
22. Venting Negative Emotion Where It Is Due
Chapter III Preventing Physical Disease with Zen Medicine
1. Shaolin Internal Exercises
2. The Six-Word Breathing Technique
3. Taking a Walk in a Forest
4. Going to Bed Before 11 PM and Taking a Nap at Noon
5. Achieving Balance between Yin and Yang
6. The Shaolin Breath-Holding Technique
7. Countering Illness with Willpower
8. Sleeping in a Warm Environment
9. Maintaining Childlike Innocence
10. Relieving Fatigue through Poetry and Meditating
11. Practicing Mental Suggestion
12. Simple Food Therapies
13. A Cup of Lukewarm Water
14. Relaxation Exercise
15. Shaolin Standing Exercise
16. Taking a “Happy Walk” after Each Meal