Donguibogam: In Search of the Body, the Universe, and the Vision of Life
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Awaken your inner healing instinct and become a researcher of your own life!
The book 『Donguibogam: In Search of the Vision of the Body, the Universe, and Life』, which classical critic Go Mi-sook reinterpreted from a humanistic perspective while crossing over Eastern and Western philosophy, has been published in a revised edition.
The author reinterprets existing texts with his outstanding humanistic thinking, offering a fresh perspective on modern people's lifestyles, the psychological state that often leads to depression and emptiness, and the distribution of knowledge in our time.
The author argues that medicine and the humanities are not separate disciplines, and that when they work together, they can elicit our healing instincts, leading to a life where "body, life, and thought" become one.
Moreover, it is argued that knowing this is destiny.
In this sense, 『Donguibogam』 is not simply a medical book, but has been directly connected to a way of life since its very creation.
Furthermore, the author emphasizes that everyone can benefit from the knowledge of health and well-being, urging, "Let us awaken the healing instinct within ourselves and become researchers of our own lives."
The book 『Donguibogam: In Search of the Vision of the Body, the Universe, and Life』, which classical critic Go Mi-sook reinterpreted from a humanistic perspective while crossing over Eastern and Western philosophy, has been published in a revised edition.
The author reinterprets existing texts with his outstanding humanistic thinking, offering a fresh perspective on modern people's lifestyles, the psychological state that often leads to depression and emptiness, and the distribution of knowledge in our time.
The author argues that medicine and the humanities are not separate disciplines, and that when they work together, they can elicit our healing instincts, leading to a life where "body, life, and thought" become one.
Moreover, it is argued that knowing this is destiny.
In this sense, 『Donguibogam』 is not simply a medical book, but has been directly connected to a way of life since its very creation.
Furthermore, the author emphasizes that everyone can benefit from the knowledge of health and well-being, urging, "Let us awaken the healing instinct within ourselves and become researchers of our own lives."
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Introducing the Revised Edition │From the Preface of the First Edition: Disease, Body, and Knowledge
Intro: One 'picture' and two 'comments'
Chapter 1: Heo Jun, the 'Natural Philosopher' Riding on the Giant's Back
Why did Heo Jun become 'Heo Jun'?
The Birth of the Donguibogam: From War to Exile
Three keywords: classification, health, and usage
The Giants' 'Feast' 1: The Three Churches
The Giants' 'Feast' Part 2: From the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine to the Four Great Masters of the Jin and Yuan Dynasties
What is the meaning of 'agreement' and 'consent'?
Pictorial _ Oriental Medicine
Chapter 2: Medicine Meets Writing: Story and Rhythm
Between Medicine and Folklore
Medicine follows the rhythm
The doctor is the director, and the clinic is a real entertainment show.
Addendum: "Minongjeon" and the Narrative of Healing
Pictorial _ Pioneers of Western Medicine
Chapter 3: Essence, Energy, and Spirit: Nature within Me, or "Avatar"
Body and the Universe: A Feast of Splendid Symmetry 1
In the beginning there was 'Qi'!
Jeong, Gi, and Shin - The Matrix of Existence
I am 'Avatar'
You have to be sick to live
Pictorial _ Thoughts on the Body and the Universe in the Pre-Modern West
Chapter 4: "Did It Work?": The Use of Healing Techniques and Pleasure
The Measure of Health - Beyond 'Tae-Gwa/Bul-Gyeop'
Protecting the Essence - Eros and the Way
Addendum: Hwang Jin-i's Unconventional 'Love Line'
Regulate Your Energy - The Ethics of Self-Care and Communication
God, Empty Your Mind - The 'Absolute Deterritorialization' of Existence
'Tongjeokbultong' - There is no subject!
Pictorial _ Thoughts on the Oriental Body
Chapter 5: The Body, the Community of Others: From Dreams to Shit
My body is not 'mine'
Dreams must disappear
Homo loques
Insects, the immigrants within me
Shit and urine, a break from the familiar
Addendum: The Paradox of Cleanliness
Pictorial _ Western Anatomy
Chapter 6: The Five Internal Organs and Six Bowels, the Magical Quartet
The Four Seasons in My Body
Symbiosis and conflict, their harmony and confrontation
'Su Seung Hwa Gang' vs. 'Eum Heo Hwa Dong'
Panorama of 'Seven Emotions'
Yin and Yang and Memory: Let Bygones Be Bygones
The Face, Seven 'Windows' to the Universe
Pictorial _ The Effects of Seven Emotions on the Body
Chapter 7: Disease and Medicine: Flowers Bloom on Every Border
'Cold' is my destiny
Know it when you see it - Sense of acquaintance
Bottle, a splendid festival of 'flowers'
Cancer and Knowledge - Unite and Die, Divide and Live
All things in the universe are medicine!
The Prescription is 'Story'
Myunghyun's reaction - You have to be sick to get better
Pictorial _ Eastern and Western Herbal Medicine
Chapter 8: Women's Body, Women's Wisdom
Pregnancy and childbirth are not illnesses.
The Political Economy of the 'Womb'
Menopause: Life's "Gold Exchange"
Women's Health - Empathize!
The Birth of Quantum Medicine
Principle of chronic waiting
Praise makes even a whale groan.
Leadership and Listening - "Protect Your Ears!"
The Female Body and Anti-Oedipus
Pictorial _ Love, Marriage, Family
Epilogue Writing and 'Homo Curas'
Pyeonjak and his brothers
'Homo curas', the researcher of one's own body
The 'healing instinct' within me
Writing and 'self-cultivation'
supplement
Good books to read together
Reading_Aphorisms of the Sages
Search
Intro: One 'picture' and two 'comments'
Chapter 1: Heo Jun, the 'Natural Philosopher' Riding on the Giant's Back
Why did Heo Jun become 'Heo Jun'?
The Birth of the Donguibogam: From War to Exile
Three keywords: classification, health, and usage
The Giants' 'Feast' 1: The Three Churches
The Giants' 'Feast' Part 2: From the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine to the Four Great Masters of the Jin and Yuan Dynasties
What is the meaning of 'agreement' and 'consent'?
Pictorial _ Oriental Medicine
Chapter 2: Medicine Meets Writing: Story and Rhythm
Between Medicine and Folklore
Medicine follows the rhythm
The doctor is the director, and the clinic is a real entertainment show.
Addendum: "Minongjeon" and the Narrative of Healing
Pictorial _ Pioneers of Western Medicine
Chapter 3: Essence, Energy, and Spirit: Nature within Me, or "Avatar"
Body and the Universe: A Feast of Splendid Symmetry 1
In the beginning there was 'Qi'!
Jeong, Gi, and Shin - The Matrix of Existence
I am 'Avatar'
You have to be sick to live
Pictorial _ Thoughts on the Body and the Universe in the Pre-Modern West
Chapter 4: "Did It Work?": The Use of Healing Techniques and Pleasure
The Measure of Health - Beyond 'Tae-Gwa/Bul-Gyeop'
Protecting the Essence - Eros and the Way
Addendum: Hwang Jin-i's Unconventional 'Love Line'
Regulate Your Energy - The Ethics of Self-Care and Communication
God, Empty Your Mind - The 'Absolute Deterritorialization' of Existence
'Tongjeokbultong' - There is no subject!
Pictorial _ Thoughts on the Oriental Body
Chapter 5: The Body, the Community of Others: From Dreams to Shit
My body is not 'mine'
Dreams must disappear
Homo loques
Insects, the immigrants within me
Shit and urine, a break from the familiar
Addendum: The Paradox of Cleanliness
Pictorial _ Western Anatomy
Chapter 6: The Five Internal Organs and Six Bowels, the Magical Quartet
The Four Seasons in My Body
Symbiosis and conflict, their harmony and confrontation
'Su Seung Hwa Gang' vs. 'Eum Heo Hwa Dong'
Panorama of 'Seven Emotions'
Yin and Yang and Memory: Let Bygones Be Bygones
The Face, Seven 'Windows' to the Universe
Pictorial _ The Effects of Seven Emotions on the Body
Chapter 7: Disease and Medicine: Flowers Bloom on Every Border
'Cold' is my destiny
Know it when you see it - Sense of acquaintance
Bottle, a splendid festival of 'flowers'
Cancer and Knowledge - Unite and Die, Divide and Live
All things in the universe are medicine!
The Prescription is 'Story'
Myunghyun's reaction - You have to be sick to get better
Pictorial _ Eastern and Western Herbal Medicine
Chapter 8: Women's Body, Women's Wisdom
Pregnancy and childbirth are not illnesses.
The Political Economy of the 'Womb'
Menopause: Life's "Gold Exchange"
Women's Health - Empathize!
The Birth of Quantum Medicine
Principle of chronic waiting
Praise makes even a whale groan.
Leadership and Listening - "Protect Your Ears!"
The Female Body and Anti-Oedipus
Pictorial _ Love, Marriage, Family
Epilogue Writing and 'Homo Curas'
Pyeonjak and his brothers
'Homo curas', the researcher of one's own body
The 'healing instinct' within me
Writing and 'self-cultivation'
supplement
Good books to read together
Reading_Aphorisms of the Sages
Search
Into the book
“The fetus is not as good as the fire.
The emptiness must be removed and the deficiency must be filled, but removing is much more difficult than filling.
In that respect, the virtue that dominates our times, the greater the better, is the worst.
Not only the desire for money, but also the idea of consuming everything that is good for the body can have fatal consequences for one's health.
As discussed earlier, beings are born with disease.
The future of life depends on how we can control this misalignment.
If the misalignment is exacerbated by overeating and overdoing it, the disease will naturally worsen, ultimately leading to premature death.
More importantly, your entire life will be severely distorted.
How can social relationships or work achievements be possible when the body is out of alignment? Similarly, how can the body be healthy when relationships and activities are distorted?
“It is impossible to properly overcome the boundary between life and death in that state.”
“Compared to that, modern people are a bundle of self-consciousness.
Self-consciousness is awareness of oneself.
In other words, it is also called 'inner'.
Since the modern era, as this inner space has become specialized, people have begun to accumulate emotions there.
As civilization developed, there was no need to expend energy, so this inner space became deeper and deeper.
As a result, people now hold even the most trivial events in their hearts for days, even years.
I'm willing to endure shoulder pain, indigestion, headaches, dizziness, etc.
“In this soil, a special form of memory called wound grows.”
“Everyone gets sick from the moment they are born.
We are born because we are sick.
The desire to be born is pain.
As we live, we suffer from all kinds of illnesses.
Living itself is a process of overcoming the pain.
And eventually he dies.
Everyone dies.
Death is another face of life.
It is the pinnacle of life and also the highest level of disease.
Ultimately, birth, growth, illness, and death—living means taking this course.
So, if we ignore disease and death, life becomes too small.
No, apart from that, there's not much to call life.
Paradoxically, embracing illness and death enriches life.
“Living well is nothing more than countless variations of the process of being sick properly when you are sick and dying properly when you are supposed to die.”
The emptiness must be removed and the deficiency must be filled, but removing is much more difficult than filling.
In that respect, the virtue that dominates our times, the greater the better, is the worst.
Not only the desire for money, but also the idea of consuming everything that is good for the body can have fatal consequences for one's health.
As discussed earlier, beings are born with disease.
The future of life depends on how we can control this misalignment.
If the misalignment is exacerbated by overeating and overdoing it, the disease will naturally worsen, ultimately leading to premature death.
More importantly, your entire life will be severely distorted.
How can social relationships or work achievements be possible when the body is out of alignment? Similarly, how can the body be healthy when relationships and activities are distorted?
“It is impossible to properly overcome the boundary between life and death in that state.”
“Compared to that, modern people are a bundle of self-consciousness.
Self-consciousness is awareness of oneself.
In other words, it is also called 'inner'.
Since the modern era, as this inner space has become specialized, people have begun to accumulate emotions there.
As civilization developed, there was no need to expend energy, so this inner space became deeper and deeper.
As a result, people now hold even the most trivial events in their hearts for days, even years.
I'm willing to endure shoulder pain, indigestion, headaches, dizziness, etc.
“In this soil, a special form of memory called wound grows.”
“Everyone gets sick from the moment they are born.
We are born because we are sick.
The desire to be born is pain.
As we live, we suffer from all kinds of illnesses.
Living itself is a process of overcoming the pain.
And eventually he dies.
Everyone dies.
Death is another face of life.
It is the pinnacle of life and also the highest level of disease.
Ultimately, birth, growth, illness, and death—living means taking this course.
So, if we ignore disease and death, life becomes too small.
No, apart from that, there's not much to call life.
Paradoxically, embracing illness and death enriches life.
“Living well is nothing more than countless variations of the process of being sick properly when you are sick and dying properly when you are supposed to die.”
---From the text
Publisher's Review
『Donguibogam』, reinterpreted by classical critic Go Mi-sook, who connects classics to modern life, crosses Eastern and Western philosophy and reads it anew.
The author reinterprets Heo Jun's Donguibogam, which has remained a medical book, from a humanistic perspective, and points out, one by one, the lifestyle habits of modern people, the psychological state that often leads to depression and emptiness, and the knowledge distribution of our time.
Gomi Sook's book, "Donguibogam: In Search of the Vision of the Body, the Universe, and Life," emphasizes that medicine and the humanities are not separate, but rather that when the two come together, we can draw out our healing instincts and ultimately move toward a life where "body, life, and thought" become one, and that the knowledge of this is destiny.
The author emphasizes that 『Donguibogam』 is not simply a medical book, but rather, from its very birth, it has been directly connected to a way of life, and that it was intended to allow everyone to enjoy the knowledge of health and well-being. He further pushes the purpose of 『Donguibogam』 and argues as follows.
“Awaken the healing instinct within you and become a researcher of your own life!”
Author's Note
“Bottle and body.
This is a new keyword that the past 10 years of study and activity have given me.
These keywords led me to a completely different arrangement of knowledge.
Humans construct the world through knowledge.
Therefore, it is not possible to explore illness or change the body without changing the structure of knowledge.
Around the time when my exploration of illness turned into questions about the body, I fatefully encountered the Donguibogam.
『Donguibogam』 is a classic representing Joseon.
It is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
And I am a so-called Korean classical literature major.
Although classical literature and the Donguibogam are within a stone's throw of each other, unfortunately, there is no space where the two intersect.
When I was studying classical literature, I never even dreamed of learning Donguibogam.
Because I firmly believed that medicine was something completely different from literature.
No, before that, I thought medicine was not an object of inquiry, but an object of subjugation.
It was the same even after opening the intellectual community.
While he advocated for cross-disciplinary and interconnectedness in other disciplines, he erected a firm barrier only for medicine.
But the topic of illness and the body finally broke down that barrier.”
The author reinterprets Heo Jun's Donguibogam, which has remained a medical book, from a humanistic perspective, and points out, one by one, the lifestyle habits of modern people, the psychological state that often leads to depression and emptiness, and the knowledge distribution of our time.
Gomi Sook's book, "Donguibogam: In Search of the Vision of the Body, the Universe, and Life," emphasizes that medicine and the humanities are not separate, but rather that when the two come together, we can draw out our healing instincts and ultimately move toward a life where "body, life, and thought" become one, and that the knowledge of this is destiny.
The author emphasizes that 『Donguibogam』 is not simply a medical book, but rather, from its very birth, it has been directly connected to a way of life, and that it was intended to allow everyone to enjoy the knowledge of health and well-being. He further pushes the purpose of 『Donguibogam』 and argues as follows.
“Awaken the healing instinct within you and become a researcher of your own life!”
Author's Note
“Bottle and body.
This is a new keyword that the past 10 years of study and activity have given me.
These keywords led me to a completely different arrangement of knowledge.
Humans construct the world through knowledge.
Therefore, it is not possible to explore illness or change the body without changing the structure of knowledge.
Around the time when my exploration of illness turned into questions about the body, I fatefully encountered the Donguibogam.
『Donguibogam』 is a classic representing Joseon.
It is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
And I am a so-called Korean classical literature major.
Although classical literature and the Donguibogam are within a stone's throw of each other, unfortunately, there is no space where the two intersect.
When I was studying classical literature, I never even dreamed of learning Donguibogam.
Because I firmly believed that medicine was something completely different from literature.
No, before that, I thought medicine was not an object of inquiry, but an object of subjugation.
It was the same even after opening the intellectual community.
While he advocated for cross-disciplinary and interconnectedness in other disciplines, he erected a firm barrier only for medicine.
But the topic of illness and the body finally broke down that barrier.”
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of publication: October 30, 2012
- Page count, weight, size: 464 pages | 720g | 145*210*30mm
- ISBN13: 9788997969142
- ISBN10: 8997969145
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