Your task in the blood doning field, is not how to reach others. The act, in fact, is more often than not, accepted by the hospital. The hospital sees what your contribution is, with all that you do. While, he, who comes just once, does not understand the gratitute of the offer. Whereas, the hospital, each time you go with blood bags, it observes. The hospital believes that you are doing something that is proper. So there’s no reward, of course. And we consider it appropriate. So finally, there is no euphemism offered to him who continually contributes, and we consider quite normal the one who doesn’t do anything at all.
So you see that, this difficulty is very important as a concept. For what reason?
It’s that, there is no encouragement and we assume that everything happens in an expected way.
But there is nothing that’s expected towards loving the other, and to think in advance how to give him blood, when he will be in need, while he is not asking for it, because he can not ask for it at the moment that he needs it, because he could have suffered an accident or something even more serious.
Then, at that moment, we have an issue. The classic example in this situation is: we all think, that it is quite reasonable to make a call to family members in order to save the situation. Often enough, family members do not even know their blood group. Not even the man’s blood group type. That’s where we suffer a panic attack, who would find what, for whom, at the right time.
That does not occur so easy. First of all, I think, something that is very important is this: every man must know his blood group.
This would be a prime target initiation.
There are countries, where it’s almost “compulsory” to have papers on you, which indicate your blood type, so at the time of need, people would not search for it at the last moment.
This is a first phase, and it’s related to the: ‘know thyself’, therefore, you should already know what you are, because otherwise, how will you be able to contribute anyway after all, later. So the question for the blood centers must be, whether this message has passed across.
That is, as we know for instance what our height is, or our weight, we should also know our blood group type, as simple as that.
It is quite interesting, because, out of these three elements, the most important is the third, while we know the others.
In order to know the other, how can we know our weight, which is very important especially for women? It is very simple, the scales. What do I mean by that? There is an instrument that does it.
Have we ever thought about having an instrument which tells you what is your blood type?
While,as soon as such instrument becomes available, immediately everyone would ask, “But what are we?” So, if we were to present it quite differently, we would realize, that for us, that the following is a prerequisite to keep in mind: what are we?
Because, be cautious, in regards to blood, there is a difficulty.
The blood is not what we have, but what we are.
Consequently, when there is this offer and this generosity, which indicates: I do not give what I have, but I give what I am, how could you give what you are, if you don’t know what you are,
Because, you can not give someone blood which is not compatible.
Therefore it’s very simple. He could even die.
Therefore we state this in such a manner, which regards first of all, the knowledge that: I do not know. So, if I don’t know, let’s learn it. Thereafter, since I know it, comes the: can I do something with this knowledge?