Nobility Is Inherent in Us
In the News (South China Morning Post): “A video of a 10-year-old Chinese boy having 30 vials of blood drawn to check his suitability to give his mother a life-saving bone marrow transplant has gone viral on Douyin.
“In the video, which has attracted more than 237,000 likes online, the boy’s eyes are steady and firm as a medical professional draws blood from his arm.
“’He used to be particularly scared of pain, but this time, knowing it was to save his mother, he didn’t say a word,’ the father said. …
“’Because my mother gave birth to me, I owe it to her’ Xuanyi said. ‘I want my mum to accompany me home so that I can be happy every day.’”
Question: It seems like such a simple story, on the one hand. On the other hand, where does this depth and understanding of another’s life in a ten-year-old boy come from?
Answer: I don’t know. This is really a special attachment and responsibility that suddenly manifests itself in children.
Question: Where does it all vanish? We know that there are examples of nobility among adults, but less and less. Where does it all disappear to? What kind of sand does it all go into?
Answer: It disappears into the sand because the impact of the common world, which is completely different, dissolves all these qualities that, in principle, we have.
Question: But is there this nobility in us?
Answer: Yes.
Question: By the way, there is also a secret here of how not to be afraid and how not to feel pain. The boy said: “I wasn’t afraid, and I didn’t feel pain because I was doing it for my mother.”
Is it possible to give some advice for an adult about how not to be afraid and how not to feel pain?
Answer: I don’t know. There might be many words, but it is not likely to be felt. It is a bond between a child and a mother, or could be between a donor and a recipient, or between just friends, or loved ones who feel connected like that.
Question: That is, I am happy when I can give something to someone else. Will this formula ever work in humanity?
Answer: It will work. We have such Reshimot, records. But when? In the meantime, we clearly push it away with all our hands and feet. The fact is that we ourselves create our living environment in such a way that it separates us from our parents, from each other, and so on. In general, it will work, but when—it is hard to say.
Question: And why did we choose such laws of life that push us away from each other?
Answer: They don’t oblige us to do anything. Everyone thinks only of himself. Children do not listen to their parents. They leave home early. And parents understand that children have their own nature, their own way. And that is how we quickly disengage.
Question: It is written in the Bible: “And he shall cleave to his wife.” It is written that one way or another a person must leave the house.
Is it written somewhere that we should come to the point where we will feel good when we give to another?
Answer: In the same Bible there are many such sentences. But it is not meant only for family ties. It means when everyone feels like family. And we will feel like relatives when we become interconnected in one single desire, in one single source, that is, in the desire to give, to help, to unite, which is higher than our earthly life, and in which we remain forever.
And we will want to come to this.
Question: You end almost all our clips with these lofty things, as if calling on a person one way or another to come to this. And then you always say, “I don’t see this happening any time soon.” You kind of add bitterness to it all the time.
Why shouldn’t a person just be given this thought and be kept at it? Is it necessary that this bitterness be, that it is not known when it will be?
Answer: It is so that people do not immediately push us away. If we talk about a kind, bright, good, and sweet future, then people will think that we are some naive, frivolous people and they will shut us down.
Comment: And so, you say: “It’s true.” You say: “And it is not known when this will happen.”
My Response: It will be, but not only through a very serious test— awareness, awareness of who we are and what we should be.
Question: Can we jump over this long period? Can we reduce it as much as possible?
Answer: Only through war, great war, and suffering, otherwise nothing. But I don’t think it will be through war, although this is the easiest and fastest method. I would like to hope that we will get through without a war.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/13/22
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