“Meditate for a minimum of two hours and 40 minutes. Sleep is the Devil — the gall bladder and liver. Meditation is God — the lung and large intestine.”

Nowadays, my meditation is mostly confined to breathing into a paper bag.

“Approximately 90% of the guinea pigs that consumed a synthetic diet which contained 0.8% of calcium and 0.9% of phosphorus developed visible deposits of calcium phosphate. If the total amount of phosphorus was reduced to 0.5%, the incidence of the deposits was less than 10%. The Ca:P ratio may be as important as the absolute amounts.

“When animals consumed the high-phosphorus diet they grew more slowly and the survival period was shortened. The soft tissues contained an abnormally high percentage of mineral constituents.

“Under the experimental conditions described wrist soreness and wrist stiffness invariably preceded the appearance of visible calcium phosphate deposits.”

I heartily approve of Dr. Yoshiaki Omura’s 1982 book, Acupuncture Medicine: Its Historical and Clinical Background, but his newer obsession with O-Ring kinesiology smacks of quackery.

How much time do you sit on the toilet? I have friends who can sit on their ass and meditate for three hours but are in and out of the bathroom at lightning speed. Does fast food lead to fast throne time?