It asks us to understand that no other life form has the consciousness of being that we are privilege to. It asks us to look about at the ant and antelope, at the worm and the butterfly, at the dog and the castrated bull, at the hawk and the wild lonely tiger, at the hundred year old oak and the thousand year old patch of ocean. It is really a beautiful view of life that offers us the chance to feel enormous appreciation for the fact that we are here as individual spirits filled with consciousness, drinking water and chopping wood. There is a Buddhist precept that asks us to be mindful of how rare it is to find ourselves in human form on earth. Of all the things that exist, we breathe and wake and turn it into song.
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