Integrity

[Guest guest]

> " A practioner of CM should be the type of individual whose own integrity is

such a force that people are moved before a word is spoken about medicine "

 

 

Simon: Lonny, I have noticed you mention the concept of Integrity many times.

Why is this belief such a foundational principle in your work, beyond the usual

emphasis that we would give to it in passing?

 

 

Lonny: Hello Simon. Thank you for asking. First, I will suggest that this is not

a belief any more than the existence of gravity is a " belief " -it's a natural law

and scientific principle.

 

Simply put, Chinese medicine is a science of integrity. It's the science of how

unity is broken and put back together. Inasmuch as CM is a holistic medicine

than on expects progression over the course of treatment from a less whole state

to increasing states of wholeness. Inasmuch as CM is part of an integral

scientific perspective then one expects evidence of increasing integrity over

the course of treatment.

 

The problem is that CM came to the West at a time when pluralism and

egalitarianism (green meme) (You have your truth, I have my truth, all " truth "

is equal, no one can judge " had created an amoral flatland where no state or

stage is recognized as being higher. The issue is that while many people pay lip

service to " holistic this and integral that " no one has implicated the self

structure or the ethical line of development as foundational in the medicine.

What we see is a very high degree of cognitive development that far exceeds the

ethical line of development.

 

People think that, " If I treat the syndrome pattern then I've done everything

that needs to be done and I've addressed the spirit too! " . Well, this just isn't

true. In the largest demographic of Cm patients and practitioners treatment is

falling on a culturally conditioned background where all truth is relative and

there is no moral imperative. There is no recognition that " Spirit, Shen,

capital " S " is Higher " . It's just another " equal " part of the " syndrome

pattern " .

 

In fact, Shen, capital " S " doesn't exist within syndrome patterns but entirely

outside of them. Shen, Spirit, Conscience, Soul, are the absolute standards of

wholeness that syndrome patterns are *judged* against.

 

It is the responsibility of the practitioner to become the kind of person whose

presence defeats cynicism about the possibility of leading a higher, more

integrated, more wholesome life. It's not any particular stage of development

that we've reached that's as important as our sincere orientation and striving

toward where we are going. It's that striving that rectifies the Zhenqi in the

patient and the heart/kidney axis beyond any level of technique, Chinese

language skills, or scholarship that we may possess.

 

In other words the radical idea being offered here is that integrity of the

practitioner's own self is fundamentally rooted in the efficacy of treatment

when medicine is viewed from an integral perspective. In other words, our lives

as practitioners must be living reflections of the highest potentials of the

medicine. Otherwise, all we've got is a profession.

 

Warm Regards, Lonny

[Guest guest]

Last paragraph should have read:

 

 

In other words the radical idea being offered here is that integrity of the

practitioner's own self fundamentally roots the efficacy of treatment when

medicine is viewed from an integral perspective. In other words, our lives as

practitioners must be living reflections of the highest potentials of the

medicine. Otherwise, all we've got is a profession.

 

I apologize for the typos.....Lonny

[Guest guest]

Hi Lonny:

 

-Lonny--

In other words the radical idea being offered here is that integrity of the

practitioner' s own self fundamentally roots the efficacy of treatment 

---

 

 This is important; it's also not radical.

 

 Hugo

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Hugo Ramiro

http://middlemedicine.wordpress.com

http://www.middlemedicine.org

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Thanks Lonny,

 

 

 

Integrity is where it is at. I could say more but you have already said it!

 

 

 

Simon

 

 

 

Chinese Medicine

Revolution

Tue, 4 May 2010 13:13:36 +0000

Re: Integrity

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last paragraph should have read:

 

In other words the radical idea being offered here is that integrity of the

practitioner's own self fundamentally roots the efficacy of treatment when

medicine is viewed from an integral perspective. In other words, our lives as

practitioners must be living reflections of the highest potentials of the

medicine. Otherwise, all we've got is a profession.

 

I apologize for the typos.....Lonny