Doc Mitchell has been a Practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine since 1989 and is a senior professor at Five Branches University.

Strong emotions can drive our decision-making and objective reality is paradoxical. yuko uno, yuka una, and Doc discuss an underlying reality that is unchanging. Everything is always changing and unfolding in the present moment. There is nothing that is stable. In the classical Chinese language, there is no verb "to be". You can't say "I am". You can't self-define. There was no abstract word for the word "time". The word they had was "seasons".

With everything in the context of seasons, there is an organic root which references a world to every kind of phenomena that is unfolding. In talking about personal cultivation, Buddhist and Christian schools offer a lot; praying to a monotheistic God is stable. ...