青柳诊所手记53

刚刚从台湾回来。我们这次去台湾主要是为了参加林胜勤老师举行的DNPD培训。DNPD是一种中医外科深层负压引流技术。他的创始人是林胜勤博士。我们跟着林老师和他的师父学习了足足两个星期。

DNPD技术听起来有些复杂，其实它非常简单，简单到可以用一个词语来介绍，那就是“减法” – 把身体内不需要的废物给清除出来。

林老师发明的机器，主要是通过深层负压引流把体内的瘀血、痰湿、毒素释放出来。通过他多年来的许多临床病例证明，DNPD不仅可以舒筋通络、促进人体的新陈代谢和血液循环、减轻炎症和痛症，也还可以调节人体的阴阳平衡，让人体抵抗病邪的免疫力变得强大。

我们的培训基地在台南，在一个安静而干净的郊区。那些低矮陈旧的建筑物让人仿佛回到了几十年前。

林老师笑着说：这个地方正好让我们在学习DNPD技术之前，体会一下什么是减法。

林老师不断向我们强调：要有一个健康的身体，我们必须学会减法。减法是一种智慧，一种高层次的养生。他说许多疾病，都是因为当减不减，当舍不舍而得来的。我们只有去掉体内那些不必要的累赘，才会有轻松、快乐、健康的身心。

我们头几个晚上都睡在一个幽静无比的寺庙里，里面除了一张床，几乎什么都没有。比起那些豪华的大酒店来，这是不是减法？

早上三点半就起来做早课，晚上九点就早早入眠。比起我们熟悉的那些喧嚣的大都市来，这是不是减法？

寺庙里连Wifi都没有，早上除了钟声与鸟声，什么都听不到。没有电脑没有手机没有电视。大师兄去买东西，还得带着一张当地的地图导航。这是不是减法？

每天吃两餐。除了有机水果和蔬菜，就是喝中药茶。这是不是减法？

我们去台湾还有另外一个目的，那就是去祭拜冯冯居士的陵墓。冯冯居士是一个著名的佛教居士，他是我的第一个灵修老师，也是曾经预言我会走上行医这条路的人。他在温哥华居住时曾经跟我是无话不谈的忘年交。他在台湾去世已经差不多二十年了，这么多年，我一直想去祭拜一下他的陵墓以表达我对他的感恩之情，但因为种种原因却总是没有机会成行。

林胜勤老师亲自开车送我们去台南的一个偏远的寺庙拜见冯冯。他不但买了许多新鲜的水果让我们带去，甚至还特意陪我们去了一个莲花山庄挑选了新绽开的莲花送给冯冯。林老师怎么知道冯冯生前最爱的花就是莲花呢？

“现代人之所以不快乐，就是因为他们杂念太多了。要知道：‘一念心清净，莲花处处开’啊”，冯冯居士生前不止一次对我这样说。

少一点杂念，这是不是也是减法？

冯冯居士一生在文学、艺术、宗教等领域都颇有成就，但他却自始至终过着低调、孤独而谦卑的生活。这是不是也是一种减法？

当我们回到温哥华时，我第一件做的事就是去拜访我们的花园。才离开两个星期，院子里的玫瑰花几乎全开了，红的黄的紫的橙的竞相开放热闹极了。阿里医生正在花园里忙碌着，他不知道我站在远处悄悄看着他。阿里医生对植物们似乎有着一种特别的感情。我看见他跪在地上浇水、施肥、翻土、换盆，忙得不亦乐乎，仿佛除了手下的花草们，他已经忘记了一切。

圣雄甘地曾经说过："忘记如何耕耘就是忘记我们自己."

那么，一个完全不把俗事放在心上而沉浸在园艺中的人，这是不是也是一种减法，甚至是一种福气？

减法往往可以丰富我们的生活，这是不是有些奇怪？

Whispering of Willows 53

By Dr. Anna Zhao

We Just returned from Taiwan, where we studied an intensive course in DNPD held by Dr. Lin Shengqin, its founder. DNPD is an innovative technique based in traditional Chinese medicine utilizing deep negative pressure drainage to help patients recover from serious illness. We studied with Dr. Lin and his master for two weeks.

DNPD technology sounds complicated, but it is actually very simple, so simple that it can be introduced in one word, that is, "subtraction" - removing unnecessary waste from the body.

The device, invented by Dr. Lin, releases blood stasis, phlegm and toxins from the body through deep negative pressure drainage. Through Dr. Lin’s many clinical cases over the years, it has been proven that DNPD is beneficial in many ways, such as by relaxing muscles, promoting blood circulation, increasing metabolism, and reducing inflammation and pain. It also regulates the balance of yin and yang in the human body, strengthening the body's immunity against pathogens and diseases.

Our training centre was in Tainan, in a neat and quiet suburb. Those low hanging old buildings may make you feel drawn back a few decades in time.

Dr. Lin smiled and said: “This place is ideal for us to experience what subtraction is before our training even starts.”

Dr. Lin constantly emphasized to us: To have a healthy life, we must learn how to subtract things from our physical body and life. Subtraction is a wisdom, a high-level health preservation. He said that many diseases are caused by not reducing what should be reduced, not giving up what should be given up. According to him, only when we remove those unnecessary burdens in our life can we have a relaxed and sound body and mind. Subtracting the unnecessary “necessities” we fill our lives with, to add to life.

We stayed in a tranquil temple for the first few nights. There was almost nothing in the room except a bed. Compared to a luxurious hotel, is this a subtraction?

We got up at 3:30 in the morning to do morning lessons and went to bed as early as 9 o'clock in the evening. Compared with the noisy metropolises we are familiar with, is this a subtraction?

Sorry, no wifi in the temple. In the morning, all you can hear are the sounds of bells and the chirping of birds. No computers, no mobile phones, and no TVs were seen anywhere. When Dr. Daniel went out shopping, no online maps, he had to take a paper map for his navigation. Is this a subtraction?

Two meals a day, only eating organic vegetables and fruit, plus lots of herbal tea. Is this also a subtraction?

Besides training, we also had another purpose for going to Taiwan, which was to pay homage to the tomb of Mr. Peter Faun. Peter was a reputable Buddhist layman. He was my first spiritual teacher and the one who predicted that I would become a Chinese Medicine doctor someday. When he lived in Vancouver, he and I were close friends. From the time he passed away in Taiwan, almost 20 years had slipped by. For years, I have wanted to pay homage at his tomb to express my gratitude to him, but for various reasons, I have never had the opportunity to do so.

Dr. Lin personally drove us to a remote temple in Tainan where we went to pay our respects at Peter’s tomb. Not only did Dr. Lin get a lot of fresh fruit for us to take, he even accompanied us to a lotus villa where we picked some newly bloomed lotus flowers for Peter. How did Dr. Lin know that Peter's favorite flower was the lotus?

"The reason why modern people are so unhappy is because they have too many distracting thoughts.” Said Peter to me on various occasions, “You know: 'If a single thought is pure, even a lotus flower blooms'."

Having fewer distracting thoughts, is this also a subtraction?

In his life, Peter made great achievements in literature, art, religion and other fields, while living a low-key, solitary and humble life. Is this also a kind of subtraction?

When we returned to Vancouver, the first thing I did was to visit our clinic’s garden. After only two weeks of absence, I was stunned to see the roses in the yard were almost all in full blossom, red, yellow, purple and orange blooming in a lively manner. Dr. Ali was busy in the garden, he didn't know I was standing in the distance watching him quietly. Dr. Ali seemed to have a special eye for the plants. Many times, I watched him kneeling on the ground watering, fertilizing, turning the soil, changing pots, busy and happy like a bee. It is as if he had forgotten everything else in the world except these darling flowers and plants under his care.

Mahatma Gandhi once said: "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."

So, when a person is completely immersed in his gardening and oblivious about worldly affairs, is this also a kind of subtraction, and perhaps even – a blessing?

While counter-intuitive, we add to our lives by subtraction – who would have thought this?