{"id":20029,"date":"2023-03-20T15:18:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T21:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?p=20029"},"modified":"2023-03-22T11:13:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T17:13:44","slug":"growing-through-the-peak-of-your-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/blog\/growing-through-the-peak-of-your-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing through the Peak of Your Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A doctor of Chinese medicine who was a famous bonesetter in China once said to me with a heavy accent, \u201cHere, you [meaning Americans] don\u2019t like to feel pain. You don\u2019t like to suffer.\u201d He said this as he wrung my neck as one would a chicken\u2019s, snapping it back and forth in a way I had never experienced. I screamed as if he were breaking my bones.<\/span><\/p>

For a month prior, I hadn\u2019t been able to move my head to the left or right. My left arm was nearly immobile. I had just started a new job that probably should have ended the moment my body locked up. I went for acupuncture, then pain pills; used ice and hot water bottles. I went to medical doctors, and they X-rayed the area and gave me more pills and a brace to keep my head still\u2014the kind used for whiplash. I later tried one of the best chiropractors in the city, and she gave me the number of a neurosurgeon, thinking I had a herniated disk and would need surgery. I did not seek out the surgeon and stayed in pain for weeks. Finally, a friend from my job gave me the number of her doctor, the famous bonesetter mentioned above. I called him at 10:00 pm that night. That\u2019s how much pain I was in. To my surprise, he answered the phone. He said, \u201cCome in. I wait for you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

I said, \u201cNow?\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cYes!\u201d he said. \u201cYou have pain, come now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Wow,<\/span><\/i> I thought. <\/span>Now that\u2019s a healer.<\/span><\/i> It didn\u2019t matter that it was the middle of the night.<\/span><\/p>

My partner at the time drove me across the Bay Bridge to San Francisco, and I met my friend from work at the healer\u2019s office. She had come to translate from Mandarin to English. The place was tiny, with photos on the wall of city dignitaries and other famous people who were his clients.<\/span><\/p>

\u201cHi.\u201d The bonesetter smiled like a boy. \u201cI\u2019m Dr. Fu.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

I sat down in his small room and showed him my X-ray. He threw it on the floor without looking at it. He took the brace off my neck and threw that on the floor, too, right next to the X-ray. Then he twisted me into a pretzel. I howled, yelped, screamed, and hollered.<\/span><\/p>

All of it. No wonder he had me come when no other patients were there. He told me to breathe, and I did my best. Suddenly, at the peak of the pain, I felt my muscles release in my neck, shoulders, and back. It was in fact a miracle to me. I had suffered so long.<\/span><\/p>

I carried my brace and X-ray out in my hands. It was as if I had never been in pain or unable to move. The night sky filled with stars made me feel like I was on another planet. I was in bliss. When I returned to work, everyone was shocked. Was it a miracle, or was it the ability to withstand a greater amount pain to be free of the pain? I would have never imagined that I needed to go deeper into the pain, deeper into the darkness of it. All I had wanted was out.<\/span><\/p>

We are averse to pain and suffering and understandably so, given our American sensibility. We have access to a large market of remedies, products, spiritual paths, and, yes, gateways to the freedom from suffering. I wonder how many times we have diverted our own freedom when we have discovered there is more pain, more trouble, more darkness ahead and we keep adding on remedies. What is the mindset, along with fear and terror, that causes us to avoid our suffering rather than go deeper into seeing what is there? Yes, I should have quit that job on the spot when the pain started, even though I had been there for only a few weeks. I didn\u2019t know at the time, but the pain that was deep inside was because I wanted something different for my life than the job I had accepted. The pain was my impatience, and it was at the same time physical pain in real time. I didn\u2019t wait to allow that\u201csomething different\u201d to be revealed in the darkness.<\/span><\/p>

Since all paths\u2014religious, spiritual, or without name\u2014intersect in the place of darkness, darkness is the place where the mind is forced to detach itself from whatever it has grabbed onto in life. And in that nothingness, in that dark place, we awaken.<\/span><\/p>

What of darkness terrorizes us so that we run from it, rather than go deeper into it? How can we bear dark times, or, more explicitly, horrifying times, with the skill of an awakened one? Misery, struggle, and sorrow are not the sole intentions of this life. Yet we can respect our interrelationship with everything in the world, including the suffering in, around, and between us. Is there a way to live in unsettling times that we have forgotten?<\/span><\/p>

Excerpted from <\/span>Opening to Darkness: Eight Gateways for Being with the Absence of Light in Unsettling Times <\/span><\/i>by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Osho Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, PhD<\/b>, is an author, poet, ordained Zen Buddhist priest, teacher, and artist, whose diverse background, education, and experience all provide a unique integral and cultural perspective within the space of religion and spirituality. She is the author of The Shamanic Bones of Zen, The Way of Tenderness, The Deepest Peace, and more. Manuel is a native of California and now resides in New Mexico. Learn more at zenju.org.<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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