Spending time in pain
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- The contemplative builds our capacity to sit with adverse emotions, not judge them but be present to them.
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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.