Sujatin has posted this heart-wrenching article about a nomadic Tibetan nun risking her life under Chinese rule.
It reminded me of a post I've had in "draft" status for awhile. May I become like these women in their depth of courage and compassion.
After twenty-one years in detention, Ani Pachen, a Tibetan princess, nun, and member of the resistance, was held in darkness for nine months. Only the birdsong that penetrated her cell allowed her to tell day from night. She insisted that while she certainly was not "happy" in the usual sense of the word, she was able to sustain the main aspects of sukha [lasting well-being] by looking within and relating again and again to her meditation practice and to her spiritual teacher, by contemplating the meaning of impermanence and the laws of cause and effect, and by becoming more aware than ever of the devastating consequences of hatred, greed, and lack of compassion.
From Matthieu Ricard, Happiness / A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
[based on: Ani Pachen and A. Donnelly, Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun
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