Spending time in pain
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Extraits marquants
- The contemplative builds our capacity to sit with adverse emotions, not judge them but be present to them.
Résumé
Adverse emotions and activism?
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One of our teachers
at the Living School
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for Action and Contemplation,
James Findlay, says that
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the brokenness is where God's
light gets into the world.
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Pain matures us
spiritually and emotionally.
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It makes us better people.
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We develop skills of resilience.
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We learn from our experiences
of being present to pain.
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And so the contemplative
really builds our capacity
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to sit with adverse emotions
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and to not judge them
but just be present to them.
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And if we can do that
on an individual level
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just think how much
better we can be present
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to the pain that exists in the world.
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And so much of the perpetuation
of pain is from people
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turning away from it.
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They are not willing to look at
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you know the impacts
of corporations that
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only care about making money.
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They don't care about the quality
of life of the communities
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or the ecosystems that
they're doing business in.
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And so many people just
aren't willing to look at it.
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And how can we fix it,
how can we heal it,
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if we're not willing to look at it.
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We have to be willing
to spend time in pain.
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And it's not fun you know.
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It's not a good
experience necessarily
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but it's a worthwhile experience
because it illuminates things to us
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about how the world ought to be.
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And we have to see
how it ought to be
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in order to find
a pathway to get it there.
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One of our teachers at the Living School for Action and Contemplation, James Findlay, says that the brokenness is where God's light gets into the world. Pain matures us spiritually and emotionally. It makes us better people. We develop skills of resilience. We learn from our experiences of being present to pain. And so the contemplative really builds our capacity to sit with adverse emotions and to not judge them but just be present to them. And if we can do that on an individual level just think how much better we can be present to the pain that exists in the world. And so much of the perpetuation of pain is from people turning away from it. They are not willing to look at you know the impacts of corporations that only care about making money. They don't care about the quality of life of the communities or the ecosystems that they're doing business in. And so many people just aren't willing to look at it. And how can we fix it, how can we heal it, if we're not willing to look at it. We have to be willing to spend time in pain. And it's not fun you know. It's not a good experience necessarily but it's a worthwhile experience because it illuminates things to us about how the world ought to be. And we have to see how it ought to be in order to find a pathway to get it there.