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上海新民周刊繼續報道： 6，偷工減料。「藥材採集之後，最基本的工作是除去泥沙和混雜物，然而目前市場上的藥材所含泥沙重量幾乎佔20%以上。藥材切法不同，藥效也不同，但現在藥工怕切到手，隨意把藥片薄片改厚片，厚片改塊狀。」
7，化學製藥。用硫磺為藥材、食材化妝非常普遍，影響到連香港的市場上都隨處可以找到硫磺熏過的藥材、食物，特別是蒜頭與薑類。用硫磺熏是為了賣相好，延長保質期，發霉的藥材、食物被硫磺熏過後都可以煥然一新。硫磺熏業者叫「打磺」，本來是傳統的熏製方法，現在發展成掙黑心錢的工具，「為了讓藥材更好看，除了打磺，還增加了用雙氧水浸泡天麻漂白，用氧化鐵水洗丹參染色，拿洗衣粉搓掉霉斑……」黑心賣藥材在香港也有，我知道香港有一家老牌國貨公司，會不時把一些過期的藥材從新包裝以後再低價出售。 http://easss.com/health
8，炮製技術後繼無人。「現在善鑒別精炮製的中藥專家，全國只剩下兩位『高徒』：83歲高齡的王孝濤和85歲高齡的金世元，所有中藥炮製方面的專家加在一起，總共40多位。」
9，學中醫人數零增長。自從清末太醫院被廢止，中醫藥就開始走上了不被重視之路。「西醫人數，從1950年到2004年，增長了70多倍，達157萬人。而中醫從1950年的27萬至30萬人，達到2004年的27萬人，實現了零增長！況且這27萬人和55年前的那27萬人，醫療水平無法相比。」
風雲詞彙是一個用來表達社會、政治及科技轉變的重要用字，牛津字典一個研究計劃每月收集1.5億個英文詞彙，再以軟件分析新字，以及其在地區上及用量上的轉變，入選用字要在過去一年非常突出及顯著。
Bitcoin 及 tweak 等 同入選 「Selfie」追溯至02年一個澳洲討論區，一男子上載自己受傷相片，並就相片失焦而致歉，強調這是「自拍」照，而非他喝醉了。
各方名人也有份谷起熱潮，如教宗方濟各（Pope Francis）與一群年輕人的自拍照在網上瘋傳，名人如歌手Justin Bieber等亦愛自拍，在社交媒體帶動下，令用字量急增。「自拍」成為主流詞彙，並衍生出更多新字，包括「運動自拍」（workout selfie）及「醉酒自拍」（drunken selfie）等。
其他入選的風雲詞彙還包括「binge-watch」（煲劇）、「Bitcoin」（比特幣）。 Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2013 SELFIE http://q.gs/54y4c Selfie is Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year Ubiquitous noun for social media self-portraits faces down newly discovered cute mammal the olinguito in annual contest 11/19/2013 http://q.gs/54y5M 'Selfie' named by Oxford Dictionaries as word of 2013 11/19/2013
Origin of the Jiva Soul by Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Maharaja Since time immemorial, man has inquired about the origin of the soul. In the thinking of many neophyte devotees the soul falls down from eternal pastimes with Krishna due to mundane envy. In this brief essay, Srila Sridhara Maharaja answers this most vital of all questions: "Who am I? Where have I come from? Note: An audio mp3 file of Srila Sridhar Maharaja speaking on the Jiva issue available here. http://q.gs/4uDO8 How does the soul first appear in this world? From what stage of spiritual existence does he fall into the material world?" This is a broad question, which requires some background information. There are two classes of souls, jivas, who come into this world. One class comes from the spiritual Vaikuntha planets by the necessity of nitya-lila, the eternal pastimes of Krsna. Another comes by constitutional necessity. The brahmajyoti, the nondifferentiated marginal plane, is the source of infinite jiva souls, atomic spiritual particles of nondifferentiated character. The rays of the Lord's transcendental body are known as the brahmajyoti, and a pencil of a ray of the brahmajyoti is the jiva. The jiva soul is an atom in that effulgence, and the brahmajyoti is a product of an infinite number of jiva atoms. Generally, souls emanate from the brahmajyoti which is living and growing. Within the brahmajyoti, their equilibrium is somehow disturbed and movement begins. From nondifferentiation, differentiation begins. From a plain sheet of uniform consciousness, individual conscious units grow. And because the jiva is conscious it is endowed with free will. So, from the marginal position they choose either the side of exploitation or the side of dedication. Krsna bhuli sei jiva anadi bahirmukha . Anadi means that which has no beginning. When we enter the land of exploitation, we come within the factor of time, space, and thought. And when we come to exploit, action and reaction begins in the negative land of loan. Although we strive to become masters, really we become losers. Goloka and Vaikuntha servitors are also seen to be within the jurisdiction of the brahmanda, the material universe, but that is only a play, lila. They come from that higher plane only to take part in the Lord's pastimes and then return. The fallen souls come from the marginal position within the brahmajyoti and not from Vaikuntha. The first position of a soul in the material world will be like that of Brahma the creator. Then his karma may take him to the body of a beast like a tiger where he is surrounded with a tigerish mentality, or to the body of a tree or creeper, where different impressions may surround him. In this way, one is involved in action and reaction. The case is complex; to analyze the details of the history of a particular atom is unnecessary. We are concerned with the general thing: how the transformation of the material conception springs from pure consciousness. Matter is not independent of spirit. In the brahmajyoti we are equipoised in the marginal potency as an infinite number of pinpoints of spiritual rays, electrons of consciousness. Consciousness means endowed with free will, for without free will no consciousness can be conceived. An atomic pinpoint of consciousness has very meager free will, and by misuse of their free will some jivas have taken their chance in the material world. They refused to submit to the supreme authority; they wanted to dominate. So, with this germinal idea of domination, the jiva enters into the world of exploitation. In the Bhagavad-gita (7.27) it is stated: iccha-dvesa samutthena dvandva-mohena bharata sarva-bhutani sammoham sarge yanti parantapa "Two principles in a crude form awaken in the jiva: hatred and desire. Then, gradually the soul comes down to mingle with the mundane world." At first, sympathy and apathy develop in a crude form, just as when a sprout springs up with two leaves. And gradually these two things help us to dive deep into this mundane world. Upon retiring from the world of exploitation, the soul may return to his former position in the brahmajyoti as spirit. But, if the soul has gathered the tendency of dedication through his previous devotional activities, he does not stop there; he pierces through the brahmajyoti and goes towards Vaikuntha. Why has the soul come to the world of "exploitation" and not the world of dedication? That should be attributed to his innate nature, which is endowed with free will. It is a free choice. This is substantiated in the Bhagavad-gita (5. 14): na kartrtvam na karmani lokasya srjati prabhuh na karma-phala-samyogam svabhavas tu pravartate "The soul is responsible for his entrance into the land of exploitation." The responsibility is with the soul, otherwise, the Lord would be responsible for his distressed condition. But Krsna says that the soul's innate free will is responsible for his entanglement in the material world. The soul is conscious, and consciousness means endowed with freedom. Because the soul is atomic, his free will is imperfect and vulnerable. The result of that free choice is that some are coming into the material world, and some are going to the spiritual world. So, the responsibility is with the individual soul. Once, an Indian political leader, Syamasundara Cakravarti, asked our spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Prabhupada, "Why has the Lord granted such freedom to the jiva ?" Prabhupada told him, ""You are fighting for freedom. Don't you know the value of freedom? Devoid of freedom, the soul is only matter." Freedom offers us the alternative to do right or wrong. Once, Gandhi told the British authorities, ""We want freedom."' They replied, "You are not fit to have self-government. When you are fit, we shall give it to you." But finally, he told them, "We want the freedom to do wrong." So, freedom does not guarantee only acting in the right way; freedom has its value independent of right and wrong. Free will is only absolute with the Absolute Truth. Because we are finite our free will is infinitesimal. The possibility of committing a mistake is there. Our first choice was to dominate and so, gradually we have entered the world of domination. As a result of this first action, everything else has developed. So, in different ranks the species have been divided from the demigods down to the trees and stones. And watery bodies, gaseous bodies, anything that we find here has evolved in that way. The activating principle in any form of embryological development is the soul, and from the soul, everything has evolved."
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