David Cain is a writer and entrepreneur living in Winnipeg, Canada. On a particular boring day at his office job in 2009, he started Raptitude. His interest has always been human society and the internal human experience, and Raptitude became his megaphone for his thoughts about those things. It found an audience rather quickly and it’s been central to his life ever since. In 2013, he left his day job to write full time.
Episode 351: What to Do About the World's Suffering - Part 1 by David Cain of Raptitude (Purposeful Living & Gratitude).
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In all the emails I receive from readers. Perhaps the most common theme is a question in this vein: how can a person be at peace with the world when there's,
much suffering going on. I don't think
need to start rolling specifics here. Virtually every story. Every newspaper is a tiny nominal record of horrendous offering for someone somewhere crimes, deaths, famines, wars, fires, floods,
How we live with so much suffering going on? How can I do so much
joy, bagel, with a clear conscience. While so many people are enduring unspeakable suffering.
I never really had a satisfying answer for that question, most of my life, and so my
the strategy, was distraction
it's a something more immediate, more consuming and those thoughts go away, but it never
Billy sat right with me until I began to question the usefulness of those thoughts,
The key lies and understand the difference between the two often misunderstood responses to suffering, sympathy and
Empathy are often used interchangeably and though there
Definitely not the same thing I came
You say my definitions are the right ones:
I think of you read all you understand. Why is so important to make a distinction both orally
It's a feeling, the suffering of others, the more common,
action is sympathy which is essentially feeling bad.
Because someone else feels bad. It doesn't require
understanding of the nature of the other person suffering only amount
acknowledgement that they are suffering when you,
back to the suffering of another with sympathy. It means your suffering,
over their suffering. However, as we suffer, we become less conscious.
Many state of suffering wisdom disappears, reactivity takes over and he began to feel helpless. Empathy,
more subtle, it is not a reaction, but rather
passing to be aware of the suffering of another in sympathy.
We can be aware that another person is suffering though we are,
in preoccupy with emotions and thoughts about the suffering, picking impossible
keenly aware of it to cultivate. Em
He requires a your main receptive and sable able to listen without judgment.
To stay aware without getting indignant. Above all, the required
is that you do not make their suffering yours parallel suffering
sympathetic reactions to suffering are actually creating more of it becoming fear
yes towards a supposed perpetrator of the suffering, for example under Maya
possibility of empathy with the sufferer
as soon as you notice her slipping into revenge fantasies or wishes for better days you creating your own suffering. Man are liable to cause more suffering to those around you the why
the response to the suffering of others is to cultivate a keen awareness of their suffering in the moment turned towards it not away. This is
the opposite of the initial impulse for most of us, which is usually anger, grief
Lifting the reality of somebody else is suffering can be almost unbearable, particularly
The sufferer is someone close to you or the sufferers defenceless, such as in the cases of
children, the poor or mistreated animals in particular pairs.
The powerful urged to try to bear the suffering of their children as if by some
in parallel. They could spare their child the burden. It often even feel
just plain wrong, not to suffer when someone else's suffering, and sometimes we
backstory. You increase suffering in ourselves as a response to feeling guilty about someone else's plight,
I remember more than one instance as a kid when I accidentally heard somebody in a schoolyard soccer collision, I was felt here
also get up limping too. Even if our fine, I guess,
oh see more attractive to be in a situation where we were both victims to just
up on her enough to watch some kid crime, because a me was so awful. I find myself acting,
some plight of my own. Just I didn't feel so careless, even
donations where we aren't the cause is easier to bear the suffering of some one else. When we suffer to that way, we feel we can be
sponsible for it. We can do something about it, but we ve.
Track of their suffering, because we're really attending to our own too simple
be present and aware of the suffering or another person without deflecting it with your own eggs is remarkably scare
proposition
even witnessing minor suffering like watching someone crash and burn in oral presentation can easy
Their bodies and faces trench, it can be awful. We have a strong
impulses suffer over the suffering of others,
so many other human impulses, it can make trade
breaks out of our behaviour and state of mind. If we are not aware of it, we do it out of self defence by some.
Bring sympathetically by distracting ourselves with blamed for the apparent perpetrators by
training the notion of value to cure cancer and animal cruelty, get drugs off the streets achieve world peace, feed, the starving children. We can momentum,
to defend ourselves from facing a universal truths about reality. That line
Beings do suffer and we can't always fix it, and I say that
nothing, we can do about disease or poverty, but here
oh urges. We feel in the presence of suffering serve only to die.
Writers, from accepting the fact that it is happening right now,
smarter, more helpful action can be taken when you not running from the reality of suffering, as always your
I, with rage or weak with despair. Your closed,
suffering of others.
Suffering alongside another does no good, though it is usually are primary impulse. When you collapse into a
Active state, where you can, I get pass your own suffering. You cannot help the sufferer
Kathy, which really is no more than an aware unconditional acceptance of the suffering of living being takes practice. The sympathy.
Impulse and all of its offshoot, emotions, rage. Denial despair is so strong
you must be aware of it or risk losing awareness of the suffering itself.
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