Thailand Rescue: The Mindful Perspective
The Thailand rescue of the boys in the cave highlights the good that can be accomplished when people around the world come together.
Thailand Rescue: Why Only Compassion Beyond Borders Will Save Humanity from its Cave
Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. Morris West
We all have been witnesses to a wondrous feat, the rescuing of a children soccer team and their coach from a flooded cave in Thailand. There are many elements and lessons experienced not only by the team and their coach but also by all of us, eyes and hearts from the world abroad, which the attention was captured by the event. Many Souls from so many places, ethnicities, and culturally different background came to help, assist and volunteer as parents, as compassionate beings, and as citizens of the world.
It was also a lesson on Faith and solidarity where those steadfast attitudes were able to remove mountains.
Service to others knows no bounds of nationality, language, or skin color or geographic locations.
People are inherently good. People want to help people.
We witnessed Good Will, Resilience, Fortitude, Human Ingenuity and the precious gift of Self-sacrifice. What can we personally learn from these collectively challenging situations?
Thailand Rescue – Getting Out of the Cave
The children of Thailand give us a real-life lesson as a result of the Thailand Rescue. No matter how dark, wet, flooded, and narrow the cave was, when our heart and souls are mindfully aligned with one purpose, we can tame and conquer ourselves. Their display of quiet minds warmed by the gratitude of being alive, overflowing with love, allowed their heart to pump the blood in a normal way, thus fulfilling the functions necessary to keep the body healthy while waiting for the help to come.
Many were involved with the rescue, and many made different contributions to perform this modern miracle of sorts, but what was remarkable was the ability we humans display when we are working on the same side. In that respect, we acted together, there were no Mountains high enough, or caves deep enough, no tall walls, no obstacles, only bridges that allowed us, humans of this world to display our true nature of Compassionate Humans.
The boys seemed to know that it was essential to keep their inner and outer peace in the midst of chaos. Their quiet appearance allowed me to believe more and more in the miracle within us; the self-knowledge of oneself. I personally realized that Thailand has as its revered principle the love for all life. Life should be more important than anything else, especially our children’s lives… they are our future, no matter geographically they were born.
Then it was apparent to me that those boys, with their serene and tranquil little faces, taught me to pray for them. Indeed, the people outside the cave were more distressed than they were. They knew, despite their young age, the dangers of a disaster. But the peace that springs from uncertainty is stronger than the most potent threat in the world.
Thailand Rescue – The Heroes of Tham Luang Cave
The Retired Navy Seal
Saman Kunan was a former elite Thailand Navy SEAL aged 38 that tragically died after suffocating while trying to save 12 trapped boys from the Tham Luang Nang Non-caves in Thailand. He retired from the Thailand Navy and volunteered to help. He gave the ultimate gift, the gift of his own life so the boys would stand a chance.
The experienced diver lost consciousness as he made his way back to safety after delivering essential supplies to the group. Here’s more about the hero diver. Saman Kunan was a skilled cyclist and runner.
He died from a deficiency of oxygen as he tried to return to safety after making crucial transports to the trapped young players and their young coach on, July 5, 2018.
Saman Kunan was working on the rescue mission as a volunteer when the terrible tragedy struck. Kunan was returning to the center after placing oxygen tanks through the cave’s underground network. His diving partner rapidly began efforts to revive him, but he was pronounced dead a short while later. Access and leave a message to Saman Kunan’s Family on his Facebook
A Buddhist Monk as a Coach
Ekapol Chanthawong took the boys about 2 1/2 miles into the cave after a soccer game on June 23 for an initiation ritual in which they would write their names on the cave wall. The adventure turned sour when the cave flooded after heavy rains. The team was trapped in the cave for two weeks.
Fortunately, on July 10th, all 12 of the boys and the coach Ekapol Chanthawong were finally freed from the cave after several days of multinational rescue operations. Chanthawong spent more than a decade in a Buddhist monastery, after losing his own family. The public and the parents are crediting him for keeping their kids calm and safe during the two-week ordeal.
We would like to acknowledge the valor and courage of the other 28 retired Thailand Navy Seals who also volunteered to this mission along others from Australia, US, UK, and China. Also, worth mention the generosity and solidarity of the Australian Anesthesiologist Richard Harris as one of the heroes of the rescue of boys and their coach in Thailand. With his experience, he was the first brave to reach them. He was on vacation with the family but present for a call of duty.
Faith that can move mountains
In the place of the parents and the public going to a place of finding someone to blame, they remained in fortitude in an extraordinary exercise of Resilience and spiritual /emotional endurance. I did not hear of fainting mothers or those shouting blasphemies, nor of anyone threating Lawsuits, they instead supported and appreciated the assistant coach in an equally candid way.
The Mothers and Fathers of the boys seemed to trust Divine Providence more than the world onlookers.
It is said that the parents camped at the entrance of the cave did not know which boys had already been rescued, although we knew that through the press. How absurd is that, you may think! The authorities were silent. For days the parents remained there without knowing whether their son was saved or not. The Western Journalists were perplexed when they came across a millennial proverb in Thailand that said, “Try not to offend the one who is helping you, asking for more than of what he gives you “. They understood why the authorities didn’t disclose the names, they wanted to avoid the parents from falling apart, and separate them would cause even more suffering. Thus, without knowing which child was out of the cave, everybody prayed for each other. And the parents weren’t looking for more information because they knew the authorities were doing what they could to save everyone.
So, they didn’t want to offend anyone who helped them, they knew that it would be more than they could give. What an extraordinary lesson! How many times have we offended and insult those around us only because of our personal unhappiness and frustration, always demanding more?
Thus, we received from this country from South-West Asia a beautiful lesson in how to be grateful, how to respect, to wait, to believe and to trust, above all, have faith, pray, be grateful to God, and have self-control mental, moral and spiritual. What a lesson of love and acceptance!
Today I want to say, “Those who do not doubt in their heart and mind can move mountains.” A whole world then helped to move this mountain and has already given back all the boys to their rightful families. What a beautiful concept, reuniting children with their parents. The lesson was for those who want to find peace: Seek self-control, self-awareness, and mindfulness. Those that are uncertain about their own life purpose, actively pursue the development of a compassionate heart for this is the most powerful weapon able to take your Humanity out of its cave.
The heart is your tabernacle of the Holy Spirit, keep desiring good things and good things will happen. The Holy Spirit is the way Divine Providence reach us. What mountain do we need to move around for you?
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