To AgentB, you asked us to "tell me a story" about the retreat, so here's mine.

Master Lin told us about his grandmother. When Master Lin was a boy, during the Cultural Revolution, he spent time living with his grandmother, out in the country. He told us that she lived in a small village, where the people were mostly poor, and lived in the old-fashioned ways. He said that she never even had her own name, but when she got married she was known as "the wife of ---".

In those days, if anybody got to go to school, it was the boy, never the girl. But she was smart, and she learned how to be a healer. Certain plants were used to treat illnesses. As a child, Chunyi learned what some of them were, and helped her to gather them. When somebody would come to her who had breast cancer, for example, she gave the person certain herbs, and she also did a sort of massage, where she pulled on a certain ligament in the back. Many people were healed of their problems by her.

Especially for cancer, she would tell the patient not to worry, and to "take it easy."

Chunyi said that since the family was poor, he slept in the same bed with his grandmother. She got breast cancer, and he heard her moaning in pain. When he asked her about it, she just said, "Oh,it's nothing. I'm just in a little bit of pain." She used the treatments that she knew, including the herbs, and the massage. To accomplish that, he said that she backed up into a wall, and gave herself the treatment that was needed.

This all happened when she was in her 70's. She was cured of the cancer, and lived into her 80's!

Master Lin told all of this very calmly. I just love it when he shares these stories about himself and others in the healing field. There are many ways that healing can happen for people!

On a related topic, thank you to all who are sending your good wishes and healing my way. Thanks, Justcappy, for submitting my name today, and also to Claudia for offering to do the same. This is a wonderful healing family we have here. It's an honor to be a part of it.

Best wishes to all,
Anita