Modern medicine is
good for two things. Acute
interventions to injuries sustained in a traumatic manner and prolonging life
well beyond the body’s own volition and ability. In these two areas of medicinal assistance, modernity’s
Western industry excels. So much so, it could be argued, that the medicine industry has been an underpinning pillar in the success of the West. But beyond
that, it is at best, questionable.
For health matters of a chronic nature, the East has many more clues and is, in essence, suggesting that health,
vitality and wellness is a dynamic balancing act, staged within the artful
bounds of living and breathing within the bounds of natural “laws”. According to the tradition of the East*,
all illness and dis-ease is the inevitable consequence of a reactivity created in breaking the “laws”. In
response, some of the finest inquiring minds of the West have been, and still
are, intrigued. Putting our Western
scientific training to the Eastern philosophical
approach, results over the past two hundred or so years, have been, by and large, are awesome.
Welcome to the eastwest
people. This series of articles is put forward to entice you into a new way of thinking. And thinking, is most correctly, the root of all evil. First comes the thought. Money gets a bed wrap, poor old money, what did it ever do?
*Which can be taken to
broadly mean anywhere East of the Levant (the area we know today as Jerusalem,
Palestine, Israel and its surrounds, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by
the Mediterranean sea.).
The first presentation is by Alan Watts. One of the great interpreters of the Eastern way into an understandable language for the Western mind. His legacy of work is a treasure trove of intelligence, and personally I have enjoyed reading his books, which I recommend.
Better and better
Enjoy
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