28 minutes agoBuddhist meditation had helped Thai boys trapped in a cave
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The coach of Thai youth who had lived for a decade in a Buddhist monastery has taught players how to meditate while confined to a cave. When the 12 Thai players who were trapped in a cave and then rescued from a British diver found they had [...]
When the 12 Thai players who were trapped in a cave and later rescued from a British diver discovered that they had meditated.
I watched them sit down. None of them cried. It was incredible”, the mother of one of the players said, referring to a video that was distributed online during the time young people were found, reported “Vox”, Periscope broadcast.
Coach Ekapol Chnathawong, who led those inside the cave who had been trapped since June 23rd, has trained meditation at a Buddhist monastery a decade before becoming football coach. According to a large number of sources, he has taught boys between 11 and 16 years of age how to meditate on maintaining calm and energy for two weeks.
“It can meditate for an hour”, Ekapol's aunt says. “He helped them to keep quiet”.
In a caricature surrounding Thailand, an artist shows Ekapol with several little wild pigs, peacefully meditating.
The 25-year-old Ekapol had lived in the monastery at the age of 12. By “Straits Times”, he has been trained in a monastery for 10 years in Mae Sai, Thailand, but had left after having to take care of his grandmother.
Meditating is very practical in the most extreme cases of stress in the wild when you find yourself in caves. Buddhist meditation is nearly 2, 600 years old, since the time the Buddha had begun practicing to achieve peace of mind and freedom from suffering. /Periscopi/
