Nachtrag: ich wollte auch noch einmal zeigen, wie das Restaurant selbst aussieht. Eingang in der Mitte und der "Gästeraum" liegt hinter den weißen Papiertüren (heißen hier "Shoji"), die man links sieht. Man kann auch die umliegenden Berge ahnen ...
11/30/2014
Restaurant
Nachtrag: ich wollte auch noch einmal zeigen, wie das Restaurant selbst aussieht. Eingang in der Mitte und der "Gästeraum" liegt hinter den weißen Papiertüren (heißen hier "Shoji"), die man links sieht. Man kann auch die umliegenden Berge ahnen ...
Surfing ...
Das ich mehr oder minder 100% "pro-Japan" bin, brauche ich wohl nicht mehr erwähnen. Trotzdem machen die Japaner mitunter (häufig) Sachen, die ich nicht so recht verstehen kann.
Ihre Manie, alles mögliche nachzumachen, weil es aus Amerika kommt, tut hier vieles dazu. Eine solche Mode ist "Surfen". Ich selbst mach' das nicht und versteh auch nicht viel davon. Wenn ich im Fernsehen Berichte sehe, wo Leute auf meterhohen Wellen "reiten" ... dann sieht es schon interessant aus.
Die Bucht hier vor meiner Haustür heisst "Sagami Bucht". Und da ist das Meer praktisch ganzjährig "flat" (scheint ein Surfer-Wort zu sein). Das Bild zeigt "Wellen", die vielleicht 13 cm hoch sind. Wenn man es tatsächlich schaffen kann darauf zu reiten, kommt man bestimmt 32.7 cm vorwärts, bevor man wieder in das in dieser Stelle 31.2 cm tiefe Wasser fällt. Ansonsten sitzen die zahlreichen Leute, die man auf dem Bild sieht einfach stundenlang da und warten auf die Wellen, die nicht kommen. Was genau daran so interessant sein soll, kann ich beim besten Willen nicht nachvollziehen.
Aber wahrscheinlich verstehe ich einfach die "Essenz" des Surfens nicht ...
(Besteht diese eventuell darin, das man da sitzt, um sein teures "board" und "wet suit" zur Schau zu stellen?)
Und dann gibt es immer wieder Leute, die EXTRA bei Sturm (Taifun) ins Wasser gehen, nur um dann von der Küstenwache mit Helikoptern gerettet werden zu müssen. Ein Spass der meines Wissens nach aus Steuergeldern bezahlt wird ...
Surfing,Manie,Amerika,Surfen,Mode,flat
Kyudo
Schon einmal etwas von Kyudo gehört?
Auf Deutsch "japanisches Bogenschießen", wobei dieses jedoch nach Möglichkeit nicht mit dem in Europa üblichen Bogenschießen verwechselt werden sollte.
Ich frage, weil ich neulich mit einer Patientin sprach und dabei erwähnte, dass ich gerade ein Buch eines Zen Priesters übersetze, der wesentlich dazu beigetragen hat, dass ich Heute immer noch in Japan bin. Die Patientin meinte, dass Kyudo in Europa doch sicher bekannter sei als Akupunktur. Ich glaube eher, es ist anders herum.
Wie denkt man in Deutschland Forum darüber?
Ich bin mit 22 nach Japan gegangen/gekommen, weil ich mit 17 im Fernsehen eine sehr kurze Szene über Bogenschießen gesehen habe.
Eine kurze Beschreibung findet sich schon seit vielen Jahren auf meiner Webseite:
http://www.einklang.com/German/Material.htm#Mein%20Weg%20nach%20Japan
Das Bild zeigt meinen Meister bei einem zeremonieller Bogenschießen zu Neujahr.
Chinese coral poaching -> Chinese people speak up
Chinese people ... what would YOU say / do, if a large gang of dirty robbers bashes in your front door, destroys everything in its paths, steals / kills all of your nations valuable pandas and as a replacement leaves tons of garbarge in a natural reserve that has been designated world heritage???
Speak up ... WHAT exactly is it that justifies this kind of Chinese behavior?
Those hundreds of pirate vessels operate within sight from the shore!!!
By national and international laws, common sense etc. they cannot have ANY right be there.
Basically I am a pacifist.
But those Chinese pirates, that appear to be even (Chinese) GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED !!!, really piss me off!
Every last one of those pirate ships should be sunk!!!
Since I am not a killer like those Chinese ... maybe give them a few rubber boats so they can swim
back to the dirty shores they came from.
11/09/2014
World heritage ...
When we got a little typhoon over here the Chinese pirates temporarily evacuated the affected area.
But only to be back in 2 days.
Now, again, +200 vessels are "operating" = systematically destroying something the world at large had choosen to be a "World Heritage" = a treasure for the entire planet = human race + and generations to come.
https://nyuwa.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/chinese-coral-poaching-chinese-people-speak-up/
The beloved Chinese pirates are back, grining into the cameras of coast guard and press vessels as if to say: "We can kill and destroy everything we like at will, because our holy motherland is right behind our back. Nobody can hurt us."
SHOOT EVERY LAST OF THOSE BASTARDS!
I think
THAT would be PRECISELY what the Chinese would do, if a gang of foreign bandits came trampling over their ground to kill every last giant panda to make dog food. And they would justify it in front of the United Nations.
So, if this is WORLD heritage, once destroyed very unlikely to recover any time soon, if ever!, I was wondering whether the world at large has any opinion about this.
If there are any Chinese people, in particular those rich people = the only ones able to buy the products, how about speaking up and tell the world exactly why you have the "right" to destroy something that belongs to humanity and NOT YOU.
But only to be back in 2 days.
Now, again, +200 vessels are "operating" = systematically destroying something the world at large had choosen to be a "World Heritage" = a treasure for the entire planet = human race + and generations to come.
https://nyuwa.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/chinese-coral-poaching-chinese-people-speak-up/
The beloved Chinese pirates are back, grining into the cameras of coast guard and press vessels as if to say: "We can kill and destroy everything we like at will, because our holy motherland is right behind our back. Nobody can hurt us."
SHOOT EVERY LAST OF THOSE BASTARDS!
I think
THAT would be PRECISELY what the Chinese would do, if a gang of foreign bandits came trampling over their ground to kill every last giant panda to make dog food. And they would justify it in front of the United Nations.
So, if this is WORLD heritage, once destroyed very unlikely to recover any time soon, if ever!, I was wondering whether the world at large has any opinion about this.
If there are any Chinese people, in particular those rich people = the only ones able to buy the products, how about speaking up and tell the world exactly why you have the "right" to destroy something that belongs to humanity and NOT YOU.
10/19/2014
Only STANDARD patients need apply ...
According to the following article:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-07/25/c_133511336.htm?__scoop_post=582bc7a0-1479-11e4-d3d7-842b2b775358&__scoop_topic=1035125#__scoop_post=582bc7a0-1479-11e4-d3d7-842b2b775358&__scoop_topic=1035125
China has issued "acupuncture treatment protocols" for so-called standard treatments:
"The National Technical Committee on Acupuncture and Moxibustion Standardization Administration of China and China Association of Acupuncture-Moxibustion (CAAM) issued the protocols."
Well, everybody watch out!
Only STANDARD patients with STANDARD symptoms will be accepted in STANDARD clinics, that use Chinese(!) STANDARD protocols to treat STANDARD diseases/conditions with STANDARD techniques and (naturally) SUBSTANDARD (=Chinese) materials.
That fits just beautifully into the Chinese mindset where everybody and everything has to be exactly the same.
Wonderfully suited for mindless robots.
Everybody is naturally FREE - as long as THIS concept is allowed - to choose "scientific standard treatment" for their respective symptoms.
Speaking only for myself, I take the liberty of being equally free in NOT accepting take kind mechanistic robot treatment for myself.
In this respect Japan is an "acupuncture paradies".
Since nobody, at least nobody in any sort of powerful position, gives anything (a rats ass, if you pardon the expression) about oriental medicine, its development and application, there are about as many "styles" here as there are acupuncturist. Although people love to quarrel here too, nobody is more "right" or "wrong" than anybody else.
This makes the country a glittering, fascinating treasure island for insights, techniques, knowledge and off course the manufacture of products with a quality far superior than anything that comes from China.
I firmly believe, that the "Japanese way" of acupuncture is much better suited for MOST people of the world than the Chinese standard stuff.
(I took the liberty of expressing my opinion in form of an ebook:
4) "Acupuncture .. the easy way - or the hard way" ・・
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/420707
Which I will shortly make also available for free (hoping for minimal "donations")
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-07/25/c_133511336.htm?__scoop_post=582bc7a0-1479-11e4-d3d7-842b2b775358&__scoop_topic=1035125#__scoop_post=582bc7a0-1479-11e4-d3d7-842b2b775358&__scoop_topic=1035125
China has issued "acupuncture treatment protocols" for so-called standard treatments:
"The National Technical Committee on Acupuncture and Moxibustion Standardization Administration of China and China Association of Acupuncture-Moxibustion (CAAM) issued the protocols."
Well, everybody watch out!
Only STANDARD patients with STANDARD symptoms will be accepted in STANDARD clinics, that use Chinese(!) STANDARD protocols to treat STANDARD diseases/conditions with STANDARD techniques and (naturally) SUBSTANDARD (=Chinese) materials.
That fits just beautifully into the Chinese mindset where everybody and everything has to be exactly the same.
Wonderfully suited for mindless robots.
Everybody is naturally FREE - as long as THIS concept is allowed - to choose "scientific standard treatment" for their respective symptoms.
Speaking only for myself, I take the liberty of being equally free in NOT accepting take kind mechanistic robot treatment for myself.
In this respect Japan is an "acupuncture paradies".
Since nobody, at least nobody in any sort of powerful position, gives anything (a rats ass, if you pardon the expression) about oriental medicine, its development and application, there are about as many "styles" here as there are acupuncturist. Although people love to quarrel here too, nobody is more "right" or "wrong" than anybody else.
This makes the country a glittering, fascinating treasure island for insights, techniques, knowledge and off course the manufacture of products with a quality far superior than anything that comes from China.
I firmly believe, that the "Japanese way" of acupuncture is much better suited for MOST people of the world than the Chinese standard stuff.
(I took the liberty of expressing my opinion in form of an ebook:
4) "Acupuncture .. the easy way - or the hard way" ・・
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/420707
Which I will shortly make also available for free (hoping for minimal "donations")
7/21/2014
Educate the public
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the author wrote:
"It was worth about an hour of my time to offer a more science-based perspective, and hopefully educate the public about scientific research design, the placebo effect, and the unprovable basis behind acupuncture."
And I took the liberty of posting the following response:
Thank you for educating me/everybody ...
I am sorry, but I am only a stupid craftsman, meaning I have been practicing acupuncture as an acupuncture (licensed) craftsman for 30 years. I am NOT an academic and much less a scholar. THAT means, EVERYBODY here is a million times smarter than I am and I have no chance in any discussion pertaining to "scientific issues" with anybody here.
But I would like to thank you for finally educating (you said in your post "the public") and convincing me, that I must be completely delusional regarding everything I saw/experienced over the fast 3 decades. So must be ALL of my patients, probably imagining the pain with which they visited my clinic and without (or much reduced) they left it. The pain etc. much have been faked to begin with.
Naturally, ALL my colleagues worldwide are delusional. So are ALL patients worldwide, who have been using this treatment modality for over 2,000 years. Not to speak of the the (American) military, which seems to have found a new love, they call "battlefield acupuncture". I am sure, all those wounded in combat will agree with you, that any effect is just a dreamt up imagination called placebo effect. And the German government, which chose to make acupuncture (for low back pain and knee pain) reimbursable by public health insurance after the GERAC study, is of course completely off track.
EVERYBODY in the whole wide world over a period of 2 millenia is wrong ... except you, of course.
Scientists, who have not only the "theory of everyting", but are also the one and only holders of the one and only "(scientific) truth", while everybody else is obviously crazy.
I would like to suggest reading some books about the "history of science", which is filled with examples of unshakeable scientific truths completely turned over in the blink of an eye because of some discovery or invention. OR ... the millions of examples, where the "scientific proof" of whatever could only be made, after suitable instruments became available and scientists were CRAZY enough to consider ideaas, that might have brought them the death penalty a little earlier ...
Before the invention of the microscope ... microorganisms simply did not exist and the black death was all the result the vivid imagination. right?
A more recent example: the Higgs particle. Its existence was an absolute MUST in order to make modern physics work, but since Mr. Higgs proposed it in 1964, NOBODY on the entire planet -- in spite of spending MUCH more money than has ever been spend on all acupuncture research globally -- could produce ANY form of evidence of its existance for more than half a century. But that is OK, because it is completely different from proposing the existance of something for which the human race throughout all ages and in all cultures has a name, which happens to be in Chinese to pronounced "qi", right?
Given that fact that "particle physics" is around only a little over a century, that translates maybe into a thousand years of "ordinary history" ...
Since there were also complaints about the money spent (= wasted) on research into acupuncture etc., it would be really nice, if you could provide some EVIDENCE = give concrete figures about how much money has been spend for the kind of research you critisize and "scientific" research. I do not have those figures, but am CERTAIN that the amount of money spend to figure out how/if acupuncture works is a VERY TINY fraction of the money spend for other research. Take for example the above mentioned research into the Higg's particle. This project alone will have cost probably more that ALL the research worldwide over the last century. (not to mention that it has no real bearing on everybody's daily life; although I like the story).
Maybe you are familiar with the long outdated "HFA2000" project of the WHO. There is a nice book about it by a person called Bannermann. The project, which intended to offer "Health fo All by the year 2000 (= HFA2000)", failed. One of the major reasons: modern, "scientific" medicine is simply too expensive to provide half-way acceptable health care for the world's population. Only a few selected (rich) people can enjoy that. But I guess, that is not important at all.
http://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/58933
So, I would like to thank you again for educating me, my patients, everybody on earth, that we ALL are crazy/delusional and YOU (the scientists) are the only one "sane".
I take the liberty of assuming, that you know "sane" means healthy.
Let's see how YOU react, when you are "insane" = unhealthy, possibly in pain, like for example because of cancer in terminal stage. Or if this would happen to your wife or children. I am sure, you or your family would just love to strap on some textbooks about "evidence based medicine" in the hope, that the evidence described therein will cast a scientific spell like "pain, pain go away, come some other day ...". If that does not work .. you wil have to wait until the relevant evidence hat been found and suitable suitable scientific devices/chemical developed. Absolutely no chance of even considering anything that HAS helped uncountable people, BECAUSE there is no "scientific evidence" for it. Fine. Convince your family, friends, neighbors etc., when they are suffering from any form of "insanity". I am sure, they will be eternally grateful for the scientific advice.
Even though I myself LOVE to study science, I DO refuse to give up my humanity, which requires sometimes decidedly unscientific elements/views.
But, well, I am just a stupid manual laborer who does not understand anything. I could not possibly give the answer to anything.
THAT I must leave to the educated people.
With love from Japan (not from Russia!)
(I assume, you do have the scientific evidence for the existence of love .. and can measure it is exact units ...)
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