Tonglen Practice: Turning Suffering Into Compassion - Tara Brach [Radical Acceptance Playlist #5] 

Thank you. May compassion heal the world.

"I care about the suffering". These last three months I've found and cared for, to the best of my abilities, many injured and ill birds, mainly pigeons with paramyxovirus. Around 15. Most died in the first 48 hours. 3 had survived and were with me for about 2 months. Until last saturday, when I forgot one of my dogs in the same room they were in and left home. I came back and saw my dog anxiously barking through the window he had opened but couldn't escape through. I knew it immediately. He killed them. He killed the pigeons! I ran to the room and it was full of feathers and blood. I saw the bodies. I couldn't... I ran to my room, crying and screaming, asking why, how could I do such a thing? When I went back to the room I was shocked again. One of them, Martín, was still alive. His body destroyed and bloodied, his eyes looking directly at me. I'll never forget this image. I took him in my arms and against my chest, shaking but trying with all my might to give him some comfort and love. We ran to a vet to get him euthanised. For the last 4 days I've been practicing the RAIN guided meditations. Only today I found this one. Tears came when I let myself feel the pain I felt when I first came into the room. I broke down, filled with sorrow, when I let myself feel the pain they must have felt, their bodies being bitten and crushed, their feathers and skin torn apart, their anguish and terror at being chased with nowhere to escape, seeing their friends go through the same, to suffer and die. Some of these thoughts and mental images had come to mind these days, but I didn't want to go there. It was too much. Today I opened up. I also let myself feel the pain of my dog, the anxiousness that must have filled his mind for having been locked in a room for 5 hours and not being able to free himself. I let in the suffering of all the billions of beings going through this whole ordeal everywhere. In nature, being predated upon and torn apart, fully conscious. In slaughterhouses, being tormented, stabbed, decapitated. And my suffering, of seeing and knowing this all, feeling guilty, ashamed and impotent. I felt all of this and let go, for them. To relieve them for a second of all of this horror. To breathe out and release them all. To free us all. May all beings be free from suffering. May we all find peace. Thank you.

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