Episode 18: Pain

What is the purpose of pain? What can we learn from engaging with it? Is pain something that can be mastered? How can we better understand pain by cultivating and connecting mind, body, and spirit? 

The idea of pain is not to avoid it but to pursue it - and pursue its meaning. Pain is a signal pathway, and it is a path we all must walk down. But how we prepare for that journey, what we take with us and what we can learn along the way makes all the difference. This week Jost and Leon enter the house of pain - and while they do jump around quite a bit - they stick to the topic of how to make it an important part of our physiological and spiritual practice. They discuss the critical connection between mind and body, how to successfully anchor one with the other, and how use that connection to transform the intensity of the day into the calmness of night. Jost talks about traditional Chinese medicine’s elemental cycle, how we are in fact the 5th element, and how the mind and body deal with time travel. Leon talks about the burnout loop of office life, the need to work with your own individual consistency, and how ‘hacks’ are a way of avoiding the discomfort and pain of learning. 

Jost and Leon also get into the topic of ghosts, guides and gueis, how unresolved pain can wreak havoc even after death, and what kinds of pranks mischievous souls might play. They also reflect on the nature of teaching, what makes a good student, and why we train. Jost also talks about Taoism’s goal of expanding the physical world with spiritual awareness, how intense pain focuses us, and how resolving pain makes us less reactive to others.

To have a body is to have pain. Pain is an opportunity to focus, connect to the universe, and in doing so find the way. So don’t just pay it forward…pain it forward! 

 

For more about Jost: https://jostsauer.com/

For more about Leon: https://futurethingy.com/

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