What's the tcm term?

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What's the tcm term?

Postby meeks on Thu Nov 07, 2019 1:25 am

Is there a term for people that get so overly concerned about whether their actions will "deplete their jing" that it too becomes a compulsive disorder?

Like how some people get so focused on the 'spiritual high' from meditation they have "fire chasing demon" syndrome.

I was talking to a newbie the other day and they were stressing about diet, exercises, lifestyle choices the point of not being in a healthy state of mind. Someone has put it in their head about "gotta keep your jing... Or you'll burn out your liver.." and all they can say is how person A and person B and person C is depleting their jing.... Newsflash... It replenishes naturally.
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Re: What's the tcm term?

Postby Michael on Sun Nov 10, 2019 6:07 pm

Not sure if there is such a term, but maybe in TCM school they have a slang for a newbie who thinks too many different branches grow from just one kind of root.
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Re: What's the tcm term?

Postby Peacedog on Sun Nov 10, 2019 6:33 pm

The generic term for this is “shen disturbance”.

It is commonly associated with mental illness in Western medical terminology.
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Re: What's the tcm term?

Postby Trick on Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:32 am

By him a beer or two and he will be back on track
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Re: What's the tcm term?

Postby Bill on Tue Nov 12, 2019 8:22 am

In English there's a saying...

Can't see the forest for the trees.

Which means...
Cannot see, understand, or focus on a situation in its entirety due to being preoccupied with minor details.
It hurts when I Pi
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Re: What's the tcm term?

Postby Peacedog on Tue Nov 12, 2019 8:55 am

The best book on the topic is unfortunately out of print. It is “Soothing the Troubled Mind: The Treatment and Prevention of Schizophrenia with Acupuncture and Moxibustion.”

The author wrote a short pdf on the topic that can be found here. Technically speaking this would be a "withdrawl" syndrome within shen disturbance.

http://www.encognitive.com/files/The%20 ... dicine.pdf
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Re: What's the tcm term?

Postby bailewen on Sat Nov 16, 2019 6:02 pm

I call it 走火入魔

The saying can be used colloquially. It doesn't always have to be some sort of super esoteric buddist thing. I like 走火入魔 for just, "He's gone a little nutso with the training/practice/etc"
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