¡°The Healing Buddha¡±

tory when spiritual liberation became available to us.
According to legend, all previous spiritual teachings were at best imperfect until the Buddha unveiled for us the path to true enlightenment and initiated a
new era of possibility for humanity.
I would therefore like to suggest that whatever we as Buddhists do to celebrate this occasion, we may try to include something that reflects this spirit
of renewal and possibility. In other words, rather than consider this day as simply an annual event that comes and goes, we may take this day, the day
the Buddha came to us, as an opportunity to begin something new in our lives.
And one thing we can do is make a decision to heal ourselves.
All of us carry emotional, and sometimes physical, wounds. When faced with young student writers who claimed they had nothing in their lives worth writing about, the late American author Flannery

This year the Buddha¡¯s birthday falls on May 2nd. This day bears extraordinary significance for Buddhists as the moment in our his35 O¡¯Connor replied that anyone who survives childhood has enough material to write about for the rest of his or her life. Her retort rings true with psychological observations of children.
Children, we are told, cannot cope with strong negative emotions and try to avoid them. If there is no wise adult present to guide them with love and understanding into facing their pain, they will have no option but to try not to feel it. Most likely, they will try to bury the pain deep within their earts
beyond conscious awareness or memory. For many, perhaps most, adults this childish defense mechanism remains in place well into adulthood.
In fact, much of adult life consists of finding enough external stimulus to distract us from the pain that accumulates within. We retreat from this pain into unhealthy but stimulating food, overly long work hours, obsessive care of our physical appearance, meaningless conversations and social occasions, movies, books, music, vacation trips, alcohol, cigarettes, and so-called romantic relationships.
Outwardly, we may be considered successful. We may have attained enviable positions, made a lot of money, even gotten married and had children, but all too many of us find that our outer appearance does not reflect our inner reality. Inwardly, we may languish in self-imposed exile, fearful that we may never be able to bring down the walls we¡¯ve erected around our pain and forever longing to meet someone who can recognize the real me, the me inside the shell.
Spiritual author Eckhart Tolle has even gone so far as to theorize that each of us carries within our bodies and minds a¡°pain-body,¡±that is, an accumulation of the energy of pain, that has a life and intelligence of its own. The pain-body is a parasite made of energy that typically lies dormant until it is hungry to feed on negative emotion. At this point, it emanates waves of negative energy that darken our houghts and behavior. This is why, according to Eckhart, people periodically engage in dramatic, destructive and self-destructive behavior, willfully reating
painful scenarios with significant others. Only in this way can enough negative emotional energy be unleashed to satisfy the pain-body which, when sated, returns to a temporary state of slumber.
Eckhart¡¯s concept is controversial, especially because he argues that the pain-bodies of women and certain ethnicities with difficult recent histories such
as Native Americans and Jews are freighted with a greater load of negative energy. However, his concept does illustrate the way in which pain may accumulate
in us and affect how we treat others and ourselves.
What can we do as Buddhists, then, to dissolve the pain-body within us?
We may begin to meditate.
Among other things, meditation is a method of observing one¡¯s inner reality of thoughts and emotions.
In other words, it¡¯s a way of finally directly facing the pain which we have tried so hard to avoid. We may sit and breathe and observe all that bubbles up--and our pain is always bubbling up, always crying out for attention.
We may observe with patience and learn to recognize and accept what we hold within, regardless of how shameful or even ugly it may at first seem. We may accept it and forgive it and then let go for it to flow away. We will learn that the childish effort to bury our pain causes us to keep it trapped burning
inside when we don\'t have to. Paradoxically, facing our pain and accepting it in the observing light of meditation lets it finally melt away as it should have so long ago.
Meditation is the gift of healing that we may give to ourselves and others. In starting to heal ourselves, we learn to discontinue our destructive behaviors. We realize that everyone always views themselves and others through the filters and categories created by their own childhood experiences. We learn that our
hurtful words and gestures are never really responses to others, but to the images that we hold of them.
We also learn that their behaviors are not truly directed toward us, but to their images of us. Everyone, in fact, is responding to distorted images and interpretations created by their own painful memories and usually unintentionally activated in the course of each day\'s events. As the pain that upholds these images disappears, and then the images themselves, we may for the first time begin to see the world for what it really is. And we may find it\'s not such a bad place after all.

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