诺娜北中医讲座（上）

            Nora在给同学们用中文念提前准备好的问候

Now I’ve come to talk to you about this very very old ancient discipline which is called five element acupuncture, and one of the lovely things about it is that it is as if east and west are joining up again. 

今天晚上我来到这里就是为了给大家介绍一个非常古老的疗愈方式，就是五行针灸。我觉得有一种特别特殊的意义在这里面，仿佛是古老的东方和西方又重新汇合交融在一起。

We live in a very divided world, with many many thousands of miles between where I live at London and where we are now. But we speak the same language which is the language of human being. The advantage that you all have in China compared to me in England is that you understand the elements. And if you are from America or the rest of the world, we don’t have a concept of the elements. This is a very deep concept, that the ancient Chinese understood which is that there are five elements, yin and yang, and the Dao, and they created the whole universe and absolutely everything in it. And this huge concept of yin and yang, of the elements, of the Dao translates itself into creating each one of us human being.

我们所生活的世界相距遥远，我所居住的伦敦与我讲话的这里相距几千英里,但实际上，我们说着同一种语言，就是人类的语言，你们作为中国人相比较我作为西方人有一种天生的优势，就是你们生而知之什么是五行,在世界的其他地方，在欧洲、在美国，我们连五行是什么都完全没有概念。你们的祖先，中国古人非常有智慧，他们发现了“道”发现了“阴阳”、“五行”，并且，世界由此而展开。道、阴阳和五行包容了世界的万事万物。

I remembered being very very pleased when I was a student because I was treating a young Korean girl, and I realized that I could recognized the same elements in her as I could recognize in any English person. So I realized then what was thirty-five, forty years ago that the elements are a universal language that we all share.

我记得我当时还是在学习五行针灸，我在给一位来自韩国的病人做治疗，我特别兴奋的一点就是发现我在这个韩国人身上看到的五行，和我在其他任何一个英国人身上看到的五行都是一样的。所以我在大概四十年前就意识到，五行是我们所共有的宇宙性的语言。

And they are the tools that we use. We use a needle, a very very thin little needle,but we use the elements through the needle to express, to tell the change of us and help bring them to health. It’s a very very tiny needle for a huge effect.

我们通过一根小小的银针，用五行这样的概念去帮助这么多的人，小小的一根银针却能够发生许多奇妙的变化，帮助人发生各种各样大的变化。

I think that we are going to give a little history about how I came into acupuncture, so that you have some idea of how an English woman of about forty-five years old suddenly found herself lying on a couch having acupuncture. And those years ago I didn’t know anything about acupuncture at all, nor did many people in England, not many people did. It was sort of considered something rather odd to have acupuncture treatment. And I found myself, coz I said last night when I was talking, at a party where I sat next to a five element acupuncturist. This was the first time that I heard the word "spirit" in a relation with anything to do with medicalor anything to do with health. Because he said that it treats the spirit.

我想简单的介绍一下我是怎么走上五行针灸之路的，那个时候我已经四十五岁了，然后突然有一天我就莫名其妙的躺在一张治疗床上开始接受针灸治疗。那个时候我对针灸是一无所知的，实际上在那个时代，在英国也没有几个人对针灸有太多的了解，大部分人看来，针灸还是一件很奇怪的事情。昨天我在宽街中医院也做了一个讲座，也谈到这个故事，当时呢，参加了一个聚会，在这个聚会上，我坐在了一位五行针灸师的旁边。这是我有生以来第一次听到有人将“灵魂”和身体的疾病关联起来，他告诉我说针灸可以治“神”。

 And I think that’s why the importance of five elements acupuncture in the world today is.Because it emphasizes that we are not just the body that is ill, but that our mind and our spirit with that body when it is ill. Therefore we treat all three levels. I can’t figure another discipline that does that. Certainly western medicine doesn’t concentrate at all on our spirit. And the scientific world is not a bit interested in the spirit. Science seems to rule the world now. So somewhere spirit has got lost underneath the whole weight of science and the things in the heads in us all. The spirit is lost.

而这实际上也就是五行针灸的核心之所在，也就是说当我们的身体生病的时候，其实不仅仅是我们的身体病了，我们的心和神也病了。那么五行针灸实际上是同时治疗我们的身、心、神三个层面。其实我不太知道是不是还有其他的方法也能够同时去治愈这三个层面的疾病。当然现在这个最普遍的西医肯定不是这样子，他不会顾及到神这个层面。那么所谓的科学世界对我们的神也不是太感冒。而所谓的科学实际上现在统治了我们的世界。在现代科学的层层笼罩之下，我觉得我们的灵魂其实已经迷失了，我们所讲的其实只是我们脑袋里所想的东西，所思考的东西。

One of the things Liu Lihong said to me is that this is the rediscovery of an ancient truth. That is what five elements is, the rediscovery of an ancient truth. If you go back to the Neijing, you see it there all the time that a person is made up of the three levels and they never split, they kept together the whole time.

有一次我跟刘力红老师聊天的时候，他跟我说五行针灸实际上是对一个古老的智慧、古老的真理的重新发现。实际上，大家应该都是学过内经的，如果大家仔细读过内经的话，就应该发现，在内经里面其实常常提到身心神这三个层面，而且一直在强调这三个层面是不可分离的。

刘力红教授

And I was just very fortunate and very lucky to meet this acupuncturist and to be taught by a master of acupuncture called J.R. Worsley, who had a school in England that I started go to and learnt from.In those days, anybody in England could study acupuncture, you wouldn’t have to be a doctor. The English have a tradition of allowing people to study naturopathy and natural medicine without any kind of knowledge of being adoctor.

我觉得我非常幸运，能够在一次聚会上认识这个五行针灸师，而这个五行针灸师，他是在一位五行针灸大师——华思礼教授开的针灸学院里面学了五行针灸，然后出来执业的。在当时的英国，做针灸不需要有医生的资质，因为针灸虽然在英国没有太长的传统，但是自然疗法在英国还是有很长的历史和传统，所以英国允许没有医生资质的人都可以去学习自然疗法，而针灸是归为到自然疗法这一类的。

J.R.Worsley(  1923 ——2003)

 People who were accepted for the study of acupuncture could be any age, any education, anything, because professor Worsley thought everyone should learn about the elements.  It didn’t matter if you’ve never picked a needle up, but if you learn about the elements, about Dao and yin-yang and the philosophy that is behind all that,you learn how to be tolerant with each other.

华思礼教授认为每个人都可以学习五行针灸，所以去华思礼教授针灸学院学习五行针灸的人是不分种族、不分年龄、不分教育背景。甚至你学了五行针灸不去做治疗也没关系，因为学习五行，会加深对人类、人性的认识，它会从生活的方方面面对你的生活给予帮助和提升。