Chinese people

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> I am sure with regard

> to immersing oneself in the chinese mind, any one of the above pursuits

> (their language, their art, their music, their martial arts, their

> meditations, their philosophy) is as good as any other.

 

I agree, although I suspect that there are combinations that are better than

others. For example, I think one of the martial traditions or one of the arts

would better suit an acupuncturist because the bodily and sensory

disciplines are valuable to clinical skills. On the other hand, someone

principally interested in Chinese medicine might be better off with

philosophy and literature because the language of internal medicine is so

rich. In my opinion, anyone who is interested in any of these things should

pursue it with all their heart and ideas like those quoted to Volker Schied

even paint a rosy glow on the future.

 

I'm not sure about putting this stuff in classes, however. I think that each

school could choose what they believe to be a good foundation set and

simply require their accepted students to come having read them. I think

it would be easy to get the authors of those books to do " web lectures " and

answer new students in an on-line forum. It seems to me that self-searching

would be better than getting these ideas in a lecture format. There's a point

at which the schools will have lost all room for innovation and development

because they are so loaded with classroom chores and it doesn't seem

unreasonable to me to make people coming to the profession responsible for

acquiring a reasonable foundation.

 

Bob

 

 

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