Gratitude
Sitting in a hospital in the middle of the night. I'm mot sick - I'm caring for a handicapped man, he is sleeping. I just have to listen to the breath to check that all is alright.
Many people is the other rooms, three beds in each room.
The nurses told me that most of the new patients arrives here at night.
They comes from the emergency department, and will be cared for some days before they can go home or will be passed to another part of the hospital.
Most of the patients here seem to be elders, but some are young.
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Yesterday morning, when I left the hospital, a woman lay on the snowy pavement beside a bus stop. Other people surrounded her. Somebody had laid a coat on her. A long blue bus stood there too. It was empty, the doors stood open. The bus driver also stood beside the fallen women. Then he went into the bus and spoke to someone in a communication radio.
Another man spoke in his mobile phone. I understood he phoned for an ambulance.
The ambulance came and the women was carried away. All the people went on the bus, they must have all gone out of it when they saw the woman laying on the ground.
The bus driver turns on the engine and starts the bus. When he stops at the next bus stand, some of the new passengers asks why he is late, it's so cold and windy. When he explains why, they sit down.
This kind of things happen all the time. Someone just falls down, another is beaten outside a bar after too much alcohol. People arrives to the hospitals; one is just old, another born with a severe handicap.
We who still are on our feet should have that on our mind. We should appreciate our organs that are still in work.
Tich Nhat Hanh describes a mindfulness practice that does this:
Take an in breath, follow it and on the out breath concentrate on your eyes and smile to them,
Do that with many more of your organs as a way to be grateful for them.
If you still can see, smell and hear - be aware of it..
And if you get ill - be aware of the people that want to help you - perhaps a whole
bus full of people...
A short film with an old and wise man speaking about gratitude:
Many people is the other rooms, three beds in each room.
The nurses told me that most of the new patients arrives here at night.
They comes from the emergency department, and will be cared for some days before they can go home or will be passed to another part of the hospital.
Most of the patients here seem to be elders, but some are young.
.
Yesterday morning, when I left the hospital, a woman lay on the snowy pavement beside a bus stop. Other people surrounded her. Somebody had laid a coat on her. A long blue bus stood there too. It was empty, the doors stood open. The bus driver also stood beside the fallen women. Then he went into the bus and spoke to someone in a communication radio.
Another man spoke in his mobile phone. I understood he phoned for an ambulance.
The ambulance came and the women was carried away. All the people went on the bus, they must have all gone out of it when they saw the woman laying on the ground.
The bus driver turns on the engine and starts the bus. When he stops at the next bus stand, some of the new passengers asks why he is late, it's so cold and windy. When he explains why, they sit down.
This kind of things happen all the time. Someone just falls down, another is beaten outside a bar after too much alcohol. People arrives to the hospitals; one is just old, another born with a severe handicap.
We who still are on our feet should have that on our mind. We should appreciate our organs that are still in work.
Tich Nhat Hanh describes a mindfulness practice that does this:
Take an in breath, follow it and on the out breath concentrate on your eyes and smile to them,
Do that with many more of your organs as a way to be grateful for them.
If you still can see, smell and hear - be aware of it..
And if you get ill - be aware of the people that want to help you - perhaps a whole
bus full of people...
A short film with an old and wise man speaking about gratitude:
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