"Across Bitter Sea" represents our clinical chinese medicine and acupuncturist practice in Alameda County and the North Bay of San Francisco area, our T.C.M. and Taoist Chinese Buddhist Healing ministry in the San Francisco, California area. This is our spiritual practice: The Medicine Bodhisattva Vow of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva (Guan Yin Pu Sa) and the Medicine Buddha to alleviate the afflictions of living beings, to facilitate the Acupuncture Chinese Herbal cure of chronic diseases and acute disease using the insight of Oriental medical acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine and other alternative medicine such as Ayurveda. The bitter sea of anguish from acute illness and chronic disease is the voyage that everyone must swim. This is the "sea of suffering". No person is spared from this "karmic" swimming lesson. Penniless or wealthy, we must all take this karmic voyage across the "sea of sickness". We all have automatic enrollment in this school of hard knocks from the moment we are born. Crossing the bitter sea is to expand our heart to bear incessant suffering while standing in for others afflictions and suffering. Our Buddhist Church's healing ministry, our non-profit 501(c)3 religious work is using asian herbal medicine, tui na, Chinese massage, acupupressure and Buddhist Taoist Healing Arts assist you in the crossing -- to be a ferryboat to the "other shore" -- beyond suffering and sickness. Namo Guanyin Pusa!

 

Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine of Marin - Integrative Medical Center of Mill Valley

"We do House-Calls" - Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture Healing
 www.Acupuncture-Marin.com  Chris Veiga, L.Ac.

125B Camino Alto, Mill Valley, CA 94941

www.Acupuncture-Marin.com     Chris@Acupuncture-Marin.com

 

Patch Adam's Ten Questions to Help Heal Society:
Take 10 and Call Me in the Morning!

These 10 Questions are Patch Adams' prescription for helping to heal society.  Chinese Medicine, being the Science of Life which hugs all aspects of life, sees the importance of these questions to a healthy society.

This is Dr. Patch Adams, M.D. from the Gesundheit! Institute (www.PatchAdams.org). Patch was Chris Veiga's most recent healing arts teacher at UCSF’s 4-day conference on Humor in Healing - entitled "Practical Outrageousness: Bringing Joy into your Clinical Practice". This is where Michael realized the important of doing house-calls! This graphic is either reprinted with permission or is made available under the "fair use" provision (17 USC ß107) of the U.S. Copyright Act for research and non-profit educational and religious purposes only. Picture source: http://www.PatchAdams.org

Patch Adams, M.D. and his Gesundheit! Institute team (www.PatchAdams.org) were Chris Veiga's most recent healing arts teachers at UCSF’s 4-day conference on Humor in Healing - entitled "Practical Outrageousness: Bringing Joy into your Clinical Practice". This graphic is either reprinted with permission or is made available under the "fair use" provision (17 USC ß107) of the U.S. Copyright Act for research and non-profit educational and religious purposes only. Picture source: http://www.PatchAdams.org

 

 

1. If no one wants to end up in a nursing home, what kind of community can celebrate all ages together and honor elders?

2. Could you choose at least one child you're not related to and give them the time and care they need?

3. If compassion and generosity were the measure of success that money and power are now, how would your life change?

4. In order to bond your neighborhood in healthy interdependence you would need to host weekly potlucks. Would you?

5. If being publicly joyful, even silly, were beneficial for our society, would you participate?

6. If you have rooms at your home, why not take in single parents as a gift?

7. How can we move to an economics of friendship?

8. Could you do ten or more volunteer hours each week to make a healthier world?

9. Do you dare to be universally friendly to end violence?

10. Can you match the cost of everything you buy with a donation to an environmental sustainability project?

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Humor and Healing with Patch Adams, M.D.

Patch Adams, M.D. and his Gesundheit! Institute team (www.patchadams.org).

Our Healing Services: House-calls or In-Clinic

Inspired by the friendly “Clown Bodhisattva” energy of Dr. Patch Adams, Chris is offering “house-calls” – just like the traditional “country doctor” of yesteryear, Chris is able to visit you directly at your home or office for a health consultation or Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine treatment rather than you having to come to the Acupuncture of Marin - Integrative Medical Center of Mill Valley clinic.  Offering House-calls supports Patch's and our philosophy of:

"Bringing fun, friendship, and
the joy of service back into healthcare."

“The healer who regards kindness to humanity as his supreme religion and treats his patients accordingly, succeeds best in achieving his aims of life and obtains the greatest pleasure.”
-- from Charaka, honored 2nd century B.C. Oriental Medicine Physician

Although Chris studied Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, he also encourages his clients to follow the advice of the inspirational Dr. Patch Adams, M.D. of the Gesundheit! Institute.  Dr. Patch suggests a daily dosage of the following:

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Click here to watch Dr. Patch Adams and "Laughologist" Dr. Lena Adams discuss the "Theory of Laughter"!
7 MB download .WMV file requires Windows Media Player.For Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Videos and Ayurveda MP3 and audios from the Acupuncture of Marin - Across Bitter Sea (http://www.Medicine-Buddha.org and www.Ayurveda-TCM.com, and Acupuncture of Marin - Across Bitter Sea (www.Ayurveda-Oakland.com), download Windows Media Player

 

 

Other video clips of Patch Adams and his philosophy of healing:

Introduction to Patch Adams and his Clown Role - Speak about the Joy in Your Life! -  the_real_patch_adams_med_speak_of_joy_in_your_life.wmv - 891 KB

Introduction to Patch Adams - Speak about the Joy in Your Life! -  the_real_patch_adams_high_speak_of_joy_in_your_life.wmv - 1.4 MB

patch_adams_clip_9_100kb_my_vows.wmv - 620 KB - 49 seconds - Patch speak about

 

the_real_patch_adams_life_story_mental_hospital.wmv - 3.5 MB

the_real_patch_adams_fish_clown_high.wmv - 1.3 MB

funny\buster_keaton_exercisies_500kbps.wmv - 3.7 MB

mr_bean_skit3_christmas_turkey_medium.wmv - 3.7 MB

improbable_pairs_south_africa_peace_smallest.wmv - 1.5 MB

improbable_pairs_south_africa_peace_small.wmv - 4.5 MB

 

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Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine as pure as a Lotus: Marin County Acupuncturists : Chinese Acupuncture in Oakland and Alamdeda County Licensed Acupuncturist and Chinese Medicine Mill Valley practitioners ayurveda Chinese Medicine healing in Sausalito, acupuncture therapy in Berkeley, Chinese Herbology in Grand Lake area. This graphic is either reprinted with permission or is made available under the "fair use" provision (17 USC §107) of the U.S. Copyright Act for research and non-profit educational and religious purposes only. Picture source: http://community.webshots.com/photo/2866967/15808348gsxQrfQDEs White Beauty by By Luís Peres
Just as the lotus is a symbol of perfection and purity, so do we embody these qualities.  Just as the lotus rises from the mud, so does our higher nature rise from the world of conflict, confusion and chaos.  The beauty of the lotus and the beauty within us cannot be stained or touched with imperfection.  Just as the lotus flower’s graceful petals unfold layer upon layer, so does grace within us unfold revealing layer upon layer of beauty.

 

 

For more information on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Marin County and the Easy Bay and other healing therapeutic services and introductory classes offered in Acupuncture and T.C.M. (Traditional Chinese Medicine), please contact:

Acupuncture of Marin - Integrative Medical Center of Mill Valley
Chris Veiga, L.Ac.

www.Acupuncture-Marin.com     Chris@Acupuncture-Marin.com

Marin County Acupuncture Chinese Herbal Medicine Clinic:
125B Camino Alto, Mill Valley, CA 94941
(415) 383-9900  FAX: (415) 383-9901

Click here for a map and audio directions to our Marin County North Bay Acupuncture Center