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Matthew Ricard from the book “Happiness”
After the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959, Tenzin Choedrak, the personal physician of the Dalai Lama, was first sent to a forced labor camp in northeastern Tibet along with some one hundred others.
Five prisoners, himself among them, survived.
He was transferred from camp to camp for nearly twenty years and often thought that he would die of hunger or of the abuse inflicted on him.
A psychiatrist who specializes in post-traumatic stress and who treated Doctor Choedrak was astonished that he showed not the least sign of post-traumatic stress syndrome.
He was not bitter, felt no resentment, displayed serene kindness, and had none of the usual psychological problems, such as anxiety, nightmares, and so on.
Choedrak acknowledged that he occasionally felt hatred for his torturers, but that he always returned to the practice of meditation on inner peace and compassion.
That was what sustained his desire to go on living and ultimately saved him.
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My two cents: Knowing what other humans have endured and survived, inspires me.
My two month quarantine seems small compared to twenty years of torture and hunger.
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