Healing without Healing

If you were a doctor who’d studied medicine but never saw or interacted with patients, your studies would be pointless, as they would not be being put into practice. The same goes for the Dharma, which is also a healing mechanism.

Everyone we meet is suffering in some way, even other ‘doctors’. It all depends how deeply we look. Practice makes perfect: by interacting, we can go deeper while healing our own imperfections at the same time.

Dharma students are potentially holy* people…we need to act like that. We can start by not rejecting those who do not conform to our lifestyle. Simply ask someone how they feel…and listen. This listening involves spaciousness, allowing the other space in which to express themselves, without diving in to correct, modify, elaborate. Letting the person be, in order to see for themselves without any expectation.

*Holy: dedicated to spiritual purpose, morally and spiritually excellent.
This doesn’t mean we have to appear affected in any way: that is the path of unholiness, and makes others uncomfortable. If we start to think ourselves as holy, we separate ourselves from others. “Holy” is being one with…wholesome…holy-some… 😉