Feel to heal—See to be!

 Legend has it that Bodhidharma sat in front of a wall for 9 years. There is nothing special about sitting in front of a wall. You might as well also marry, have kids and embark on a mission that is meaningful to you. What remains a requirement though, you have to look the inner conflicts straight in the eye and refuse to move just as Bodhidharma did in front of the wall. 

The thing about an inner conflict is that it doesn’t matter if you do the “right” thing or kick the can down the road once again. The diffusion of energy remains the same because without a liberating aha moment that resolves the inner tension, the loss of energy from the inner friction remains the same. The upside of the choice between a rock and a hard place is to sit with the tension.

Feel to heal—see to be! I don’t know what made Bodhidarma get up after 9 years but I venture to say that the breakthrough of blocked energy can happen everywhere at any time if we just have the patience and resilience to look and be willing to feel what slumbers in the depth of our being. Life has been tailored for us to enable the breakthrough right where we are right now—use it!