Soderqvist1: I have a contribution to your Personal Integrity Topic!
I see Philosophy of Scientology as a word, which should be understood on its own merits, and its philosophical origin should also be investigated, and understood, just as you do when you “clearing a word” Personal Integrity; Ron got that concept from his mentor Commander “Snake” Thompson, which he got from the Buddhist tradition!
Personal Integrity By L. Ron Hubbard
WHAT IS TRUE FOR YOU is what you have observed yourself and when you lose that you have lost everything. Maintaining sufficient personal integrity and sufficient personal belief and confidence in self and courage that we can observe what we observe and say what we have observed. Nothing in Dianetics and Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation. That is all.
http://www.aboutlronhubbard.org/eng/wis3_4.htm
Lecture: The Story of Dianetics and Scientology
Anyway; at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, where they have all the books on everything, he started shoving my nose into an education in the field of the mind. Now, that's a very unusual thing to do, to take a twelve-year-old boy And start doing something with the mind. But he really got me interested in the subject But actually Commander Thompson had a very open mind on this, and he used to tell me, „Well, if it's not true for you, it's not true.“ And I found out that he got this from a fellow named Gautama Siddhartha.
http://carolineletkeman.org/sp/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1432&Itemid=240
Lecture: Dianetics The Modern Miracle
I was just a kid and Commander Thompson didn't have any boy of his own, and he and I just got along fine.
http://carolineletkeman.org/sp/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=727&Itemid=240
Soderqvist1: it is implicit that; if after a thorough investigation you have not observed anything of the sort, then it is not truth according to what you have observed! Jacques Schnier was one of Commander Thompson’s students too!
A Sculptors Odyssey By Jacques Schnier
Page 106 -107 Riess: The Buddhist View How important was that trip in your life?
Schnier: Yes. Now, if I said that after 1933, when I started my analysis, it would have been under the influence of [Joseph] Thompson.
Thompson was a Buddhist, and that's where I first became exposed to Buddhism in depth, real depth. Thompson shared with me a lot of his knowledge of Buddhism, and I went into it a little more than just the casual person who would read a little about Zen, and that's it.
Page 123: Riess: What was his attachment to Eastern philosophy?
Buddhism? Why did he know?
Schnier: He was a naval officer during World War I, and part of his years in the service were spent in the Orient, and that's where he was
exposed to Buddhism. I think he had a friend who was a Buddhist who had entered the Buddhist monastery. Be that as it may, he had studied it thoroughly. He was a deep thinker. He was constantly searching. He wasn't the type who sits back and is satisfied with just reading the morning newspaper.
Page 132 -133 Riess: The oral tradition?
Schnier: Yes. None of it was put down in permanent form until several hundred years later. Now there are several books that supposedly contain his teachings that for hundreds of years were handed down orally. And this comes from one of those books. So the Buddha said that it's in the nature of things that doubt should arise, and then he went on to say that it's a matter of not closing your eyes to these various systems. Listen to them. But then eventually you have to make a decision based on what you think is reasonable. The actual wording is this, "If, after observation and analysis, it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it, and live up to it." So he didn't force them to follow Buddhism, he wanted them to make their own decision.
http://www.archive.org/stream/sculptorodyssey00schnrich#page/n9/mode/2up
Commander "Snake" Thompson on EX-Scientology Message Board
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?t=5390