It's its own trainer. The best way to be trained in
integrity
is also the easiest way: just be around people who are in
integrity.
Being around people who are in
integrity
is the entry level training for being in integrity. Then, the mere act
of practicing the learned entry level principles and abstracts and
ontology of
integrity,
reveals the ever deeper principles and abstracts and ontology of
integrity.
In this way
integrity,
once enabled, once enlivened, trains itself ie becomes its own
trainer.
Why isn't it so easy for me to train myself to be in
integrityfrom scratch (so to speak) without first being around
people who are in
integrity?
It is possible ... but that's the long way home - because until there's
integrity,
until
integrity
and its impact are recognizable, until
integrity
is distinguishable, there's no foundation on which, no
background against which, no stand from which things can
work.
That's actually not altogether unexpected. Things simply don't
work
without
integrity.
In fact without integrity, nothingworks
(as
Werner Erhard
may have said). It's a vicious, steadily
devolving
circle. When things don't
work,
there's no platform on which
integrity
and its impact can be measured and known. And without
integrity
nothing
works.
So
integrity
can be trained at an entry level by being around people who are in
integrity,
after which it becomes its own trainer. But listen: there's a danger in
approaching
integrity
training the way we approach any other training in order to become
good at something, in order to learn a new skill, in order
to learn a better move in the
game.
The danger is this: learning
integrity
isn't simply learning a better move in the
game.
Integrity
is the entire
game.
Learning
integrity
isn't simply learning a new skill for my life.
Integrityis my entire life.
Gee! I hope you get this.
There's a lot of overlap between the definition of
teacher of
integrity
and the definition of trainer of
integrity.
Indeed, it may not be entirely possible to completely separate the two.
Nonetheless I'd like to give differentiating between them a shot - not
so much to make a point about the difference between a teacher and a
trainer, but rather to make a point about the nature of
integrity.
A teacher of
integrity
may be someone I emulate, someone whose
words
and actions in
integrity
I borrow, copy, take on and act out in my own life. In learning
integrity,
a teacher of
integrity
is a valuable
friend,
partner, and ally.
The designation trainer of
integrity
applies to a mentor who not only teaches me
integrity
but who also ensures I
master
the abstracts of
integrityfor my
Self
so that pretty soon I'm rendered independent of my
integrity
trainer, yet I can maintain
integrity.
Furthermore, I'm rendered independent of my
integrity
trainer by my
integrity
trainer herself ... and ... by my
agreement with my
integrity
trainer. My
integrity
trainer writes herself out of a job just in the process of
training me, entrusting my own
integrity
from then on to be its own trainer.