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Let no-one try to tell me Animals cannot progress out of that realm... of course they can!

Thank you for the link.
I too, have witnessed the ability of animals to 'understand' what kindness, compassion and empathetic joy, are.....

I cannot swear, hand on heart, that they KNOW Uppeka.... but it's demonstrable that they might....

Intersting - thanks for sharing

TheNoBSBuddhist wrote:Let no-one try to tell me Animals cannot progress out of that realm... of course they can!

Thank you for the link.
I too, have witnessed the ability of animals to 'understand' what kindness, compassion and empathetic joy, are.....

I cannot swear, hand on heart, that they KNOW Uppeka.... but it's demonstrable that they might....

Indeed! "A young man named Pessa, an elephant trainer, once made an interesting observation on the difference between humans and animals. He said to the Buddha: "Humans are a tangle while animals are straightforward, While I am training an elephant, in the time it takes to go to Campa and back again it will try every trick, ruse, stratagem and dodge. But our slaves, messengers and servants do one thing, say another, and think something else." (M.I,340)

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