Page 12 - Acupuncture Times August 2020

12 Opinion Aug 1, 2020 Vol. 17 Hani Times
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Despite difficulties due to COVID-19, we should carry out our original intentions.

I want to spread the idea of the Han Spirit through the education of acupuncturists.

his/her company with ideas of their degree, and now there have due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
'Humanitarianism' and 'Governing been practicing acupuncture All courses have been delivered
nation with reason.' for Americans in the states of through online courses. No one can
America. predict when the pandemic will
I cannot forget my first students be over and will be the quarantine
who were nine of them and from There were sunny days and lifted. I will do the same thing as
Korea, Japan, and Iran, and the rainy days for school. But the I have been doing for the last 43
moment I saw their enthusiasm school is still educating students years during a tough time. I will
through their eyes in the first class. in Anaheim and Los Angeles do my best to spread goodwill
campus. I believe the driving and righteousness based on
The Year 2020 is the 43rd year force of the success of the school traditional Korean philosophy
of the school. I founded a small is based on traditional Korean to my students and alumnus.
school in the beginning with a philosophy and the Han Spirit. Then we will see each other and
vision. Forty-three years later, from shake hands without caring for
1977, thousands of acupuncturists Like everyone in the U.S., the keeping social distance or wearing
have been educated and earned school encounters challenges masks someday.

△ As we live in a tough time with COVID-19, I want to ask Whitehead's Nexus (連繫體) and Wuxing (五行):
my readers to carry out our original intentions and preserving
health. imageⓒshutterstock_igor moskalenko the logic of relations in Wuxing nexus

and Holon theory was introduced Plato thought that the cosmology established
to explain Korean culture.
by physical material was arbitrary.
I decided to dedicate my life to
introduce the value of traditional
Korean philosophy for American. By Simon Kim, Professor,
But as one who had an economics South Baylo University
major, I was not so sure how to
By David Park, Founder of achieve my goal. I finally decided Greek philosophers sought to
South Baylo University to establish an acupuncture school build a cosmology based on the
and educate traditional Korean ultimate material by searching
philosophy to students and for the ARCHE, such as water,
I studied economics and provide authentic acupuncture fire, air, and earth. Parmenides, a
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher,
graduated from Yonsei treatment to Americans.
proposed the atomic theory, which
University in 1955 and earned
supposes that everything in the
my master's and doctoral degree Back then, acupuncture theory was universe is either atoms or void.
in economics in the U.S. I have not familiar with Americans. But However, Plato thought that the
lectured economics classes at I thought there was a chance to cosmology established by physical
California State Polytechnic make acupuncture more popular material was arbitrary. So, he tried myriad things (萬物) in terms terms of the logic of relations.
University for 31 years. because the acupuncture theory to explain the prototype of the of the concept of Nexus in It can be said that the relationship
universal nature by introducing Whitehead's organic philosophy. between the AE/ AO and the real
is future-oriented philosophy that
geometric shapes. Organic philosophy is, above all, world is a chain and a connection of
I have lived in the U.S. for such shares track with New Science.
Plato thought that natural a philosophy of relationships NEXUS. In East Asian philosophy,
a long time. Still, I wanted to elements such as water, fire, that values interrelatedness this is substituted by the Wuxing
learn more about my identity and As I planned to establish an soil, and air were made from and interconnectedness. In (Five Elements/ Structure). All the
traditional Korean philosophy, acupuncture school in the early differences in metaphysical a way, the reality of modern airplane parts displayed on a wide
and my desire to study those 1970s, the 37th President of the shapes, not differences in their physics is determined by the stadium is not a flying airplane.
properties. He considered the five relationship between proton ( Each part must be assembled in an
subjects kept on growing as I U.S., Richard Nixon visited China,
cubes as models of such cosmic 陽性子) and electron (陰電子). appropriate structure to perform
studied more about traditional and he brought and introduced
fundamentals. Platonic solid is, The relation of Yinyang and its proper function adequately.
Korean philosophy such as the acupuncture. Richard Nixon has any of the five geometric solids the interrelations of Wuxing The Wuxing nexus can be said
Han spirit, 'Humanitarianism,' been a catalyst that brought whose faces are all identical, show the same pattern. as an assembly method.
and 'Governing nation with acupuncture to the U.S. directly regular polygons meeting at the The terminology of 'Nexus' coined Wuxing's relational logic expresses
the reason' I was fascinated from China. same three-dimensional angles. by Whitehead originally refers the generality of existence,
by unique ideas of traditional Also known as the five regular to an integrated interconnection, making it the most sophisticated
polyhedra, they consist of the not just a simple connection. and closest to capture all things
Korean philosophy. I was encouraged to establish
tetrahedron (or pyramid), cube, Nexus is called a combination of in nature. This is unmatched
South Baylo University in Los
octahedron, dodecahedron, and AE/ AO to form a complex and by Plato's geometric thinking.
I tried to explain and prove that Angeles, California, in 1977. In icosahedron. macroscopic being. The Nexus is While Plato was unable to explain
the Korean philosophy is not the beginning, the school had two In the previous series, I contended experienced as real things daily, dynamic natural phenomena and
separated from the paradigm of programs, such as acupuncture that the Whiteheadian concept but the AO/AE is an object of the eruption of all things with
New Science, which was introduced and business courses. The purpose of AE/ AO is equal to Yinqi/ experience that is confirmed only geometric models alone, the
Yangqi (陰氣/陽氣) and it through metaphysical speculation. Wuxing theory, which is in line
in the 1960s. Traditional Korean of acupuncture school is to
functions by the reciprocity The importance of the category with the phase of Nexus, was
philosophy is far more advanced educate acupuncture theories
logic of Yinyang. Now, let's of Nexus lies partly in its great able to successfully explain all
than New Science. It seemed that based on the Han Spirit. And I explain how the movement generality, a generality that can the natural phenomena, including
New Science, such as Quantum wanted to educate future business of yin qi and yang qi creates be adequately represented in life, mind, and spirit.
theory, Chaos theory, Fuzzy theory, administrators who could manage