Dr Richard Teo: Thoughts on Life, Wealth, Success and Happiness
This is a sharing by a doctor in Singapore who went through a transformation after he was diagnosed with cancer. He shares with such honesty, the material life he lived and how, after cancer, he became more compassionate.
Here are some lines from the video:
I had this friend whom I thought was strange. Her name is Jennifer, we’re still good friends. And as I walked along the path, she would, if she sees a snail, she would actually pick up the snail and put it along the grass patch. I was like why do you need to do that? Why dirty your hands? It’s just a snail. The truth is she could feel for the snail. The thought of being crushed to death is real to her, but to me it’s just a snail. If you can’t get out of the pathway of humans then you deserve to be crushed, it’s part of evolution isn’t it? What an irony isn’t it? There I was being trained as a doctor, to be compassionate, to be able to empathise; but I couldn’t.
When I faced death, when I had to, I stripped myself off all stuff totally and I focused only on what is essential. The irony is that a lot of times, only when we learn how to die then we learn how to live.
Dr Teo has passed away now and I believe this video clip is an important legacy he left Singapore and the world.- Log in or join the library to post comments and rate content