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The Tibetan Monk Who Survived 33 Years of Torture Without Losing Heart
His strength carries a lesson for you.
“The human body can bear immeasurable pain and yet recover. Wounds can heal.
But once your spirit is broken, everything falls apart. So we did not allow ourselves to feel dejected.”
Some stories you simply cannot un-hear. They make such an impact that your very perception of humanity changes.
For me, the following made me realize what it’s all about on the Dharmic path — what applying spirituality in daily life really means.
Palden Gyatso was born in Tibet in 1933
After having been a monk most of his life, at the age of 26, he was arrested for protesting against the Chinese Communist invasion.
He then suffered the longest prison term of any Tibetan political prisoner in history, emerging only at the ripe age of 59.
The horrors he lived through in Communist ‘reconditioning camps’ would be enough to break anyone’s spirit:
- Being electrocuted so strongly that…
