Mine. No touch.

An interesting perspective on ownership and mine!

https://www.facebook.com/afluffsquad/videos/1756271331061783/?t=2

Buddhism in Daily Life

This video moved me, and has helped me generate positive minds all day. So I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on it and invite you to contribute your own in the comments.

1. The sentience — the sheer life — of animals. Indeed, how they are just like us, wanting to protect themselves and their young. They want to be happy and they don’t want to be hurt. Person, self, being, and I are synonyms according to Buddha. Animals are people. They are he’s and she’s, never its.
2. Animals possess the same Buddha seeds of compassion and wisdom as we do — they are future Buddhas deserving of love and respect.
3. How at our mercy animals are. The human in the video could easily take that puppy away and there is nothing the dog dad could do about it.
4. Will this dad in fact get to keep his puppy?…

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