For most spiritual traditions, as well as also for the world view of systems theory, it is essential to recognize that we are not separate entities, isolated but integral and organic parts of the vast web of life. As such, we are like neurons in a neural network, through which flow currents of awareness of what happens to us as a species and as a planet. In that sense, the pain we feel for our world is a living testimony of our interconnectedness with it.
If we deny this pain, we become locked into neurons and stunted, stripped of the vital flow, weakening the larger body of which we take our being. But if we let it move through us, we affirm our belong, our collective consciousness increases. We open to the pain of the world with confidence that we can shatter or we can isolate, since we are not objects that can break. We are resilient patterns in the vast network of knowledge.
have been conditioned to see ourselves as separate entities, competitive and therefore fragile, it takes practice to relearn this type of elasticity. A good way to start is to practice the simple directness, as in the exercise of "breathing through," adapted from an ancient Buddhist meditation for the development of compassion.
Closing his eyes, focus your attention on your breathing. Do not try to breathe in any special way, slow and long. Just watch as is breathing in and out. Notice the sensations that accompany it in the nostrils or upper lip, chest or abdomen. Remains passive and alert, like a cat to a mouse hole
... ... While watching the breath, you notice that happens by itself, without your will, not your decision to inhale or exhale every time ... it's as if you were Breathe - Breathe for life ... Just like everybody in this room, in this city on the planet today is breathing, sustained in a vast web of life breathable.
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Now visualize your breath as a jet or a ribbon of air flowing through you. Look flowing up through your nose, down the trachea and going into your lungs. Now pass it to your lungs through your heart. Picture it flowing through your heart and out through an opening, to reconnect with the larger web of life. Let the breath-stream, as it passes through you, appear as a bond that is part of this huge network, connecting you with it.
... ... Now open your awareness to the suffering present in the world. Lower all defenses and make your knowledge of this suffering. Let him come in the form as concrete as possible ... images of your fellow beings in pain and needs, fear and isolation, in prisons, hospitals, apartment buildings, in camps of hunger ... no need to tighten these images are present on you under our interexistence. Relax and just let them flourish ... and countless difficulties many of our fellow humans, and also our animal brothers and sisters, as they swim the seas and fly in the air on this planet sick ... breathe in the pain, as dark granules in air stream, up the nose, down the trachea, lungs and heart, y saliendo otra vez a la red mundial … no hagas nada con los gránulos por ahora, salvo dejarlos pasar a través de tu corazón.
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Asegúrate de que la corriente fluya a través tuyo y hacia afuera otra vez; no te agarres del dolor … entrégalo por ahora a los recursos curativos de la gran red vital.
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Podemos decir junto con Shantideva, el santo budista: “Deja que todas las tristezas maduren en mí”. Les ayudamos a madurar pasándolas a través de nuestros corazones … haciendo un abono bueno y sustancioso a partir de toda esa pena … de manera que podemos aprender de ella, enriqueciendo nuestro greater knowledge, collective ...
If images or feelings arise and there is only blankness, gray and numb, breathe through. Numbness itself is a very real part of our world ...
And if what emerges will not the pain of others as much as your own suffering, then they breathe that through. Your own grief is an integral part of the pain of our world, and arises with it
... ... If you feel a pain in the chest, a pressure in the chest, as if his heart would break, that's fine. Your heart is not an object that can break ... if it were, they say the heart that breaks open can contain the entire universe. Your heart is so big. Trust him. Keep breathing.
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This guided meditation is used to introduce the process of breathing through which, once we become familiar with it, becomes useful in many situations of everyday life that confront us with painful information. Breathing through the bad news, rather than hang on to them, we can do to strengthen our sense of belonging in the vast web of being. Eli
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