Healing is knowing our woundedness it is developing an intimacy with the ways in which we suffer. Healing does not mean forgiveness either, though it is a result of it. It is the basic ordinary work of staying engaged with our own hurt and limitations.
Healing is never a definite location but something in process. Healing is movement and work toward wholeness. This is the true nature of our experience, and in finally approaching this experience we contact basic sanity. We must see that there is something that must be befriended. We embrace it, and in so doing establish a new relationship with the experience. If we are to heal, then we must allow our awareness to settle into and integrate with the pain and discomfort that has been habitually avoided. It is interrogating our bodies as an artifact of accumulated traumas and doing the work of processing that trauma by developing the capacity to notice and be with our pain. It is the courage to want to be happy not just for others, but for ourselves as well. Healing is not just the courage to love, but to be loved. He writes here of the needed work of healing our own wounds so that the healing can be passed on:
Perhaps it is because of his many identities that his teachings on love, self-compassion, and justice seem to be drawn from the perennial wisdom of Reality itself.
I have been recently introduced to the work of Lama Rod Owens, a Black, queer, American-born, Tibetan Buddhist teacher, who was raised in the Christian church and graduated from Harvard Divinity School. Healing Is a Process Thursday, September 17, 2020
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