095-Birds - Buddhism in daily life

Birds


A pair of blackbirds has been breeding on my balcony, yesterday
the little ones hatched. Five mini birds in my flowerpot, beaks
constantly open, some dried grass as a base, mom almost always
sits on it, keeps her children warm, dad is looking for worms in
the garden, brings almost endless supply.


At first we (my girlfriend and I) thought that birds had been
looking for food in the flowerpot, perhaps scattering the soil on
the balcony, making a mess. At first we almost overlooked the
nest, then we did not notice anything as such, until we noticed
the constant coming and going on the terrace, then we looked more
closely. A bird's nest, first with one egg, the next day there
were then two, always a new egg per day, until there were then
five pieces. The mother is constantly brooding, not two meters
away from my desk chair, the birds seemed to have no fear of us.
Strangely, they trust us completely, I whistle, they respond,
quickly we have become the foster parents for their offspring.


We put water, bought bird food, we give them rice and bread, we
watch the pair of birds intensively.


Now the interest awoke, we researched on the Internet, little was
found about a friendship between people and blackbirds, but it
has become a togetherness, similar to a pet there is a kind of
common understanding.


Watching how the animals touchingly care for their children, how
the couple also works together and sticks together, it's magical,
much like a married couple also raising their children.


The pair of birds made us think more deeply about the different
living beings, and how much obviously also animals have emotions
and feelings, the interaction of the pair of birds speaks for
itself. And if even small birds have such emotions, then larger
animals even more so.


And we humans think to have the right to rule over all other
living beings, to make them usable for us, which is why we also
speak of farm animals, which we can use, kill and eat, throw away
or torture, just as we like.


Now if we were the poor pigs in the enclosure, had found a
partner in "captivity" (another poor pig), and then another
living being (a human being) comes and takes our (beloved)
partner to slaughter and eat him, how would our feelings be
there? And that animals have such emotions is clear (at least for
us) by the example of the bird pair, only one makes even
otherwise no thoughts about the animals, apart from the so much
"loved" pets once.


We now eat almost exclusively vegetables.


Looking at the birds is (as I said) magical, the journey is the
destination!





Who sees appearance as appearance and the being as being,
penetrates up to the core of the truth, has read the right track


- Buddha - "The Enlightened One





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