Truth and reconcilation

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Ken and All,

 

After catching up on the last few days of rather impassioned posts,

I was reminded of a quote attributed to Suzuki-roshi.

" Three things cause problems, " he said, " One thing- you're always trying to do

something.

Another thing- you're afraid to do anything because you know it won't work.

Third thing- you rely on something. "

 

No one here is causing problems, not for CM anyway, it is too big

and even the " biggest " of us is too small to cause the problems or create the

solutions.

We have various views that will not be reconciled here.

History reconciles. And when all that is left of us are our teeth and nails,

CM will be where it is because we did the research and because we didn't

and because learned Chinese and because we didn't, because we " fought "

and because we pursued reconciliation.

 

The effect of these discussions on a relative novice is to cause me

to pratice softening my position and taking a stand. Taiji? I

get the feeling that I'm finding out what is Chinese medicine.

And it is clinically relavent. There is not a day that I see patients that

I do not find it important to soften and expand my notion of what I am doing

and then to proceed pointedly and prescriptively (all puns intended).

That's what I've been thinking. Thanks for asking. Sinc, Dean

Paul asked me if I thought that reconcilation

were really possible, and I said no;

but that won't stop me from pursuing

it.

 

I think back to Simcha's piece on this

topic and I wonder what others might

have been thinking.

 

ken