When My Life Is In Danger

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Hayatım Tehlikedeyken

Birkaç yıl önce, yaşlı bir keşiş Tibet’teki hapishaneden kaçtıktan sonra Hindistan’a geldi. Dalai Lama ile görüştüğünde kendisine hapsedildiği yılları, göğüs gerdiği sıkıntı ve dayakları, katlandığı açlığı ve yalnızlığı ve gördüğü işkenceyi anlattı.

Bir noktada Dalai Lama ona: “Hayatınızın gerçekten tehlikede olduğunu hissettiğiniz bir zaman oldu mu?” diye sordu.

Yaşlı keşiş: “Gerçekte, hakikaten risk altında hissettiğim tek zaman, beni hapsedenlere duyduğum şefkati kaybetme tehlikesini hissettiğim zamandı” dedi.

Bunun gibi hikayeleri duymak bizi genellikle şüpheye ve şaşkınlığa düşürüyor. Hem şefkatli olanları hem de şefkat vasfının kendisini idealleştirmek bize cazip gelebilir. Bu insanları, bize erişilemeyecek güçlere sahip olan azizler olarak hayal ediyoruz. Yine de, büyük ıztırap hikayeleri genellikle gönül yüceliğini bulmuş sıradan insanların hikayeleridir. İçimizdeki uyanmış kalbi keşfetmek için, şefkati idealleştirmemek ya da romantikleştirmemek çok önemlidir. Şefkatimiz, ondan kaçmak yerine acıyla buluşmaya duyduğumuz istekten doğar.

Kendimizi, hayatımızın böylesine vehim bir tehlike altında olduğu durumlarda bulmayabiliriz; yine de acı ve ızdırap hayatımızın inkar edilemez yönleridir. Hiçbirimiz yüreklerimizin etrafına yaşamın zarar veremeyeceği duvarlar inşa edemiyoruz. Bu hayatta karşılaştığımız üzüntü ile karşı karşıya kaldığımızda bir seçeneğimiz var: Kalplerimiz kapanabilir, zihinlerimiz irkilebilir, vücudumuz kasılabilir ve acılı bir reddetme durumunu yaşayan bir kalbi deneyimleyebiliriz. Bunun da yanı sıra bir şeyleri önemsemimizi sağlayan cesareti, dengeyi, sabrı ve bilgeliği beslemek için kendi içimizde derinlere de dalabiliriz.

Bunu yaptığımızda şefkatin bir hâl olmadığını göreceğiz. Şefkat, kırılgan ve öngörülemeyen dünya ile etkileşim kurmanın bir yoludur. Etki alanı yalnızca sevdiğiklerinizin ve önemsediklerinizin dünyası değil, aynı zamanda bizi tehdit edenlerin, rahatsız edenlerin ve bize zarar verenlerin dünyasıdır. Katlanılamaz bir yaşamla karşı karşıya kalan ve asla karşılaşmadığımız sayısız varlığın dünyasıdır.

Bir insanın nihai yolculuğu, kalbimizin ne kadar çok şey kapsayabileceğini keşfetmektir. Acı çektirme ve aynı zamanda acıları iyileştirme kapasitemiz içimizde yan yana yaşar. İyileşme kapasitesini geliştirmeyi seçersek, ki bu her insan hayatının zorluğudur, kalplerimizin çok şey kapsayabileceğini görürüz ve bizi birbirimizden ayıran hizipleşmeleri arttırmak yerine onları iyileştirmeyi öğrenebiliriz.

Tefekkür soruları: Şefkat sizin için ne ifade ediyor? Acıyı iyileştirme kapasitesini geliştirebildiğiniz bir zamanın hikayesini paylaşabilir misiniz? Acıyı iyileştirme kapasitesini geliştirmenize ne yardımcı oluyor?
Seed Questions for Reflection

What does compassion mean to you? Can you share a story of a time you were able to develop the capacity to heal suffering? What helps you develop the capacity to heal suffering?

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Nov 12, 2019
Compassion is when you feel the suffering or pain of others and you are willing to do something to make their situation better. We relate to others pain through ours own experiences or our idea of what it must have felt like, or feels like. Intense suffering can generate compassion or sometimes anger. My own personal experience of pain has definitely made me more compassionate person. There is a pleasure in being compassionate. Even though that's not the sole intention of being compassionate to someone, I feel my life is more meaningful when I can practice being compassionate towards others.
RA
Nov 6, 2019
Instances - In early college years, just sitting near a class mate (who was sobbing after losing his father) while the others kept away as they probably felt uncomfortable.
Simpler ones - shifting any creature back to its natural habitat after it has strayed and is unable to get back. Stopping my journey to help anyone struggling in some way, as carrying a heavy load.
Sometimes I see the fact of not being compassionate to and accepting of - myself.
It helps to step out of little sufferings, with no substantial basis, by considering that ' I ' am the trustee and caretaker of the life energy in me and that it needs to be kept light and clean.
V
Nov 5, 2019
Compassion, to me, is opening wide, accepting what is without judgment, being present in love to whatever, whoever, while at the same time feeling the desire to relieve the suffering of another. In my life, compassion is active; I try to be in gratitude for all of my blessings so that I have an abundance of blessings to give to others. Even if it's only a smile or a kind word, I see the responding answer and I am blessed again.
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Nov 5, 2019



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MS
Nov 4, 2019
"Our compassion simply grows out of our willingness to meet pain rather than to flee from it."

This is what I will remember from the reading.....
KP
Nov 4, 2019
Compassion to me means feeling love, care, kindness and empathy for everyone, no exceptions.It means to look below the surface and seek to understand what may be underneath driving the behavior or words of another (and of self). Perhaps because I grew up in a household with a dad who had multiple suicide attempts and died when I was 22, and because I experienced significant bullying from ages 9 to about 14, I have somehow developed a deeper ability to hold compassion for all, because I have lived on the other side of it. The capacity to also heal suffering begins, (for me anyway) with seeking to look underneath it, and to also ask, "what can I learn from this experience?" "How might I grow?" How might I find compassion for self or others in this experience and learning? What helps develop it is to recognize everyone has had times of suffering so matter what their life may look like externally. Since we have all suffered, we are all together. And then we can begin t... View full comment
D
Nov 3, 2019
Compassion is feeling with and for the other, sincerely caring, and helping in some way. To suffer means to carry. Suffering isn't pain -- suffering is how we carry our pain. We each suffer or carry our pain, whatever it is. I can't heal the suffering of another. I can only heal or make more healthy how I suffer or carry my pain. I can help and have helped others heal their suffering by helping them see how they are suffering their pain, and by helping them learn a way that is more healthy and efficient and that doesn't produce unnecessary pain,. I can help them activate their own healing of their suffering. What helps me develop the capacity to help another heal his or her suffering is for me to be clear as to what suffering is and help the other be clear about that, develop my ability to see how the other suffers, and develop my ability to intervene in a way that is compassionate, honest, and accurate.
JP
Nov 1, 2019
Compassion is a caring feeling that arises in us when we see someone going through suffering. Seeing someone suffering evokes compassion in me and an inclination in me to reach out and help the person to heal him. Seeing a person going through emotional pain touches my heart and creates emotional bond with the other person. I have gone though deep suffering in my life. I accepted my suffering and went through the process of healing me. It took time to heal my emotional wounds. I had learned to face my suffering compassionately rather than fleeing away from it, from my own being. I had gone though several days of darkness and pain. Working on myself compassionately helped me understand and relate to suffering of other people. In my everyday life I run into young and old people going through small and big sufferings. Walking in and going though my own suffering taught me how to empathize with them, understand them and hold their hands as they are going through their suffering. Such exper... View full comment