Not just someone to Him

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/jamie-foxx-rescues-driver-from-burning-truck/


"He didn't have to do a thing, I think we all hope that we can all do something when the time is there but the question is, is do we act.?.?.?.?."

I pray and i hope so ...

carlos.martinez3 wrote: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/jamie-foxx-rescues-driver-from-burning-truck/


"He didn't have to do a thing, I think we all hope that we can all do something when the time is there but the question is, is do we act.?.?.?.?."

Good guy

Part of it, a huge part of it, is cultivating the ability live totally in the moment. I've been in a bunch of situations where I froze up, even though I had the training and ability to act. As I've learned to meditate and all that jazz I've found it's becoming easier to react instantaneously. I imagine that's one of the ways you can end up doing good under super stressful or suddenly-dramatic conditions. You assess, you act, with no "middleman" entering the puzzle. That's sort of how the firefighters I talked to when i was thinking of going that route described it.

It's not easy to act when the situation calls for it. The fight or flight within us sometimes automatically makes that decision. As Locksley said, after meditation it helps you to remain more calm and (correctly) asses the situation.

I once saw an elderly couple cross a 4 lane road on bicycles and the elderly woman fell. I immediately pulled over my car next to the road and ran over to her. Helped her to my car and drove her home while my girlfriend rode the bike and accompanied the elderly man home.

It's not as spectacular as a burning truck but that's the only example I could pull from experience :laugh:

This story rang a bell with me as it relates to my recent study of the Bushido Code (thank you for the assignment, Master tzb ).

Samurai define courage as taking "right action". Being courageous is to live when it is right to live and to die only when it is right to die. When looked at this way, we can see that taking action to save the man from the burning truck was "right action" and therefore demanded courageous action from a noble warrior. Had Jamie Foxx been killed in the process of rescuing him it would have been a courageous death, as it would be right to die in the effort to take right action.

Now, actually having the courage to follow through with right action in the face of injury or death is a rare thing. Perhaps Jamie Foxx is a Samurai!

Senan wrote: This story rang a bell with me as it relates to my recent study of the Bushido Code (thank you for the assignment, Master tzb ).

Samurai define courage as taking "right action". Being courageous is to live when it is right to live and to die only when it is right to die. When looked at this way, we can see that taking action to save the man from the burning truck was "right action" and therefore demanded courageous action from a noble warrior. Had Jamie Foxx been killed in the process of rescuing him it would have been a courageous death, as it would be right to die in the effort to take right action.

Now, actually having the courage to follow through with right action in the face of injury or death is a rare thing. Perhaps Jamie Foxx is a Samurai!

LOL I have to admit I was...baffeled, im not a Jamie jammer but, I was taken by this. I love it when my views of things change

There are generally three types of people in these kind of situations, those that act, those that stare and those that run away. I've been confronted with a couple of these kinds of situations although the car was not always on fire, when it's all said and done you think to yourself what did I just do? Adrenaline starts pumping into the brain and there isn't a lot of time to think, you just react. Each time was a bit of a scary experience because it was like I was outside of myself for the time being.

i think that it helps, before ever reaching a situation like this, to understand and accept that simply being there obligates us to act - the person who understands that they are responsible, that if it isnt them then it wont be anyone, is the person who is going to get involved

i think people often surprise themselves with how courageous they become when they face a situation where they implicitly understand that its up to them and that its really important that they act

focusing on the risk that the other person is in helps - they need help, they need it now, and youre the only jedi around...