Someone asked, "When I'm seriously ill and suffering greatly, how can I transform that suffering into passing clouds?"
Sifu replied: "Don't create the label, 'I am suffering.' The body and mind can be separated.
The body may experience pain, but your true nature does not. The body is subject to arising, abiding, changing, and passing away, but your true nature never comes and goes.
Wherever there is pain in the body, relax into that body part and offer it your blessings. Open your heart to accept it instead of resisting it. Let both body and mind return to zero.
'This is simply an illness—it is not my illness.'
'This is pain in the body—it is not my pain.'
In this way, we no longer become slaves to the suffering."
While illness may be unavoidable, may we all find freedom even in the midst of sickness—experiencing illness without being consumed by suffering.
