Ants, to cite just one example, work unselfishly for the good of the community; we humans sometimes do not look so good by comparison.
-Dalai Lama
After yesterday's entry you may be asking yourself, "How could a person put such personal information about another on a public blog? " That's a reasonable question I suppose and I have asked it of myself. First of all this blog is not very public lol...my readership is very small and few who read this will guess at who I am referring to. Even if they did, does it matter that much? Why do we hide such things from one another? To keep up some guise as to how humanity should be? To pretend?
Second of all...it truly isn't just about another, is it? It is about me and about you. It is about all of us.
Truth is this individual's situation is very, very common and even universal. The suffering amongst our youth today is tenfold what it was decades ago. We need to stop pretending that suffering and mental illness does not exist as frequently and possibly as completely as it does in all of us. We need to do something about it. We need to start the healing process and that begin with recognizing and understanding that first noble truth of Buddhism: Suffering Exists! We all need to heal and we all need to help others heal.
So yes I will use this example with the permission of the individual involved. I do so, in hope, that one of you readers out there will recognize a need for healing in yourself or a need to act as healer in the life of some one else. We all have the potential to heal the world.
How can we begin healing the world? By being willing to heal ourselves one breath at a time, and then reaching out with a desire to heal another. First let's talk about what needs to be healed.
All is well
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