Noble suffering is human misery that drives towards insight, determination and release. It is the knowledge that suffering is existential. The deep note of noble suffering is what differentiates true healing from superficial patchwork, and fraudulent elixirs. The wounded healer is a person suffering from a deep, human, personal pain, who is able to perceive in his or her own plight the kernels of the universal truth about all pains and all plights; and who, accordingly, is sensitized to and activated by a life-long calling to heal. When I came to understand myself as a variant of the wounded healer, I appreciated Vipassana more deeply. Its age-old tradition of friendship and comradeship rings the most fundamental note of the human scale. Many contemporary pshychotherapies and healings seem to me to be blindly organized around success, happiness and bourgeois attainment: two cars, two children, two houses, two wives. In Vipassana I had located a healing where my lifes song wasn’t listened to for the pizzicato of my house or the opulence of my vacations or the applause and kudos I received. In Vipassana, the notes of my birth and death on the shore of the mysterious ocean of the universe vibrate in common with all humanity. …It does not cover over pain with money and fame. It does not palliate or placate, but operates as the common root where individuals, isolated anguish opens out into the stream of undivided, impersonal love. Wherever there is a personal self, there is suffering. Vipassana meditation dissects into the open the existential link between self and suffering, and permits one to reawaken to the world beyond ones self. - Dr.Paul Flieshmann from The Wounded Healer news.dhamma.org/wp-content/uploads/1987-14-4-VNL-en-US.pdf
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