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Well - how many of them did you need to help you? Something like this occurred at my buddhist temple during a meditation, except it was one of the members who
by roflc0ptic 4y ago
Well - how many of them did you need to help you?
Something like this occurred at my buddhist temple during a meditation, except it was one of the members who collapsed. Someone went over help and the rest of us... couldn't do anything more. An ambulance was called. they got medical treatment.
Should we have collectively wrung our hands? To what end?
The point here isn't averting your eyes in the face of suffering, it's about correctly judging the situation and taking only effective action. Collectively performing impotent empathy isn't any more useful to the ailing person than quietly sitting and sending them prayers/lovingkindness/whatever.
- neltnerb 4y agoI didn't expect everyone to jump into action and mill around pointlessly, I expected them to pause long enough to help me, a newcomer to town, contact people who were trained to help... And to be clear, I mean this as an example and a warning to not get too disconnected from the physical world while doing these meditations. They were all as friendly of people as any others I met in a city, it was the context that made it stick out in my mind.
- roflc0ptic 4y agoOh. It sounded like that’s what you were describing - somebody came to help, and most everyone else ignored it