Dr. Terry A. Gordon: The Wounded Healer

Dirk Terpstra: Why do we always perceive suffering as a purely negative experience and how could we change that?

Dr. Terry A. Gordon: Well, by accepting the non-duality of life. Lao Tzu talks about that in the second verse of the Tao Te Ching – Where the calm sunny day is perfectly balanced by the storm and perfect health is perfectly balanced by disease and injury. If you can accept both of those as being one and the same, just different ends of the journey, then it makes perfect sense that you’re going to suffer because you can’t know what freedom and peace is without suffering. So you have to experience both. But the important thing is to let go of the attachment to what you perceive is good as much as you let go of the attachment to what you perceive as not so good. And that’s when you get the true freedom – when you experience the profound sorrow, like what we’re experiencing with Tyler and yet you also see the beautiful side of that. This is what I meant by “accepting the non-duality of life”.

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INTERVIEW BY DIRK TERPSTRA WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON SOULLOVE.COM

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