Healing into Life and Death

Zen Master Suzuki Roshi’s comment, “Everything is perfect, but there is always room for improvement.”

books on the Gerson method, wheat-grass therapy, fever therapy, macrobiotics, acupuncture, moxibustion, nutritional and exercise therapies, autohypnosis, Bach flower remedies, color therapy, urine therapy, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, various forms of prayer, and any number of lesser-known experimentations.

It is the unexamined mind’s reaction to feelings of panic and helplessness that so often arise in life and know nowhere to turn.

Then effort does not reinforce resistance or become its collaborator, repelling healing.

So each technique needs to be done with balance and heart for the practice to take you beyond the practice itself, for one not to be a meditator but, instead, to become the meditation itself.

These were the patients who saw that illness was not a failure and that pain was not a punishment.

“the visitor in the body and the egg that hatched it all.”

To understand energy is to enter into the process itself. To feel the vibration pulsing in our tissues, to watch the mind unfolding, to recognize the body as an opportunity to awaken to that which goes beyond the body, the pure energy of pure awareness, that which we call life and whose absence from the body we conceptualize as death.

the I Ching, in the hexagram “The Army” it says, “One cannot overcome the enemy until one has rid oneself of that which they find despicable in the other.” We are constantly treating ourselves as “an other.” But even here it is easy to miss the point, because we don’t have to rid ourselves of anything to be whole. All we have to do is bring mercy a