In Reply to: I think I am losing it--prayers, thoughts, incantations, etc., would be great!. sm posted by Frankie on June 19, 2008 at 19:03:25:
Plus, I know from when the disasters struck in my area...everybody seems to be projecting their emotions, it's just really, really impossible to NOT feel their feelings, not to absorb it.
You know the Buddhists don't look at people as though they were separate from their surroundings. I've read a little of the Dali Lama's book "Happiness," and in it, he speaks about how if the majority of the neighborhood isn't happy, one house in that neighborhood can't be truly happy either -- there is no real molecular difference that separates you from your neighbors; pain and loss are just swimming around the atmosphere and you're the closest "sponge" to soak it up. Hopefully some of your energy can be used to neutralize the community pain, and some of your energy can be used to heal your community.
I think in a little while, you're going to see the rainbow in this disaster; the outpouring of giving from the rest of the country...the sprouting of new growth in the ruins.
It's the cycle of things...they grow up, they become tall, then collapse, the begin anew but stronger. (((HUGS)))