Impossible Friendship??
A HEARTWARMING VIDEO TO SHARE WITH FAMILY, FRIENDS AND ALL….
As the only species on Earth who hunts other beings for entertainment… it’s refreshing for us, when we see interaction between two different animals, treating each other with affection.
Humans have decided which animals deserve to be pets, which animals deserve to be used for their meat, which animals deserve to be hunted etc…
We have created these categories ourselves… and it differs from culture to culture. Some animals which are considered pets in one culture, are considered meat in others.
Nature didn’t make it that way, we did.
The video below shows us something that we could maybe learn… unbiased friendship. This cat and a few dolphins seem to have taken an interest in each other! Very cute.
Tsem Rinpoche
http://video.tsemtulku.com/videos/Cat-and-Dolphins-playing-together.flv
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Amazing video of heart warming affections.
Nice : )
Excellent and nice videos . i like it very much
True friendship knows no barrier. It transcends colour, creed, race, species, time, distance etc. It’s a very deep connection between one being to another and somehow there is always common understanding. There are people we see everyday, yet we have nothing in common to share. On the other hand, we may have friends we hardly see due to distance or time constraint but the friendship always remain strong. It always seem like there is no time gap since we last saw each other although it may have been a while. I treasure such unconditional friendship very much.
I love this video and just had to share it on FB! In my opinion there’s no such thing as impossible, only different levels of improbable. Thanks for sharing a lovely story Rinpoche.
The dolphin and the cat share so much differences and yet they can get along. They don’t even make the same sounds. We, as humans have so much to learn from them although amongst ourselves, we have so much in common. But most of the time, we choose only to look at the differences and ignore the similarities. I just love this video because it says so much without any words and it is very endearing to see the smiling dolphin play with the little kitten. If we only open ourselves to things we have in common, we can bridge any divide.
Wow..lovely to see, made me smile
Nice to see the cat and dolphin interacting like that! Goes to show we are all inter connected!
Actually we humans got a lot to learn from the animals. As a matter of fact, planet earth does not belong to anyone in particular, only we humans laid claim to it. “Nature didnt make it that way, we did,” said our guru, Tsem Rinpoche. Of course we dont hold animals superior to human beings, or even equal to us, we are a more superior specie, uniquely capable of imagination, rationality and moral choice. But, that doesnt mean we cant share this planet peacefully and happily with them, as in the golden words of Dr.Martin Lurther King Jr:-
“One day the absurdity of the most universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls, and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.”
I totally agree on what everybody says.
Thank you, Rinpoche, for this lovely video. How charming and sweet to see the dolphin and the cat showing such loving affection for each other. How heart-warming to see the dolphin do so with a wide smile on its face.
One of my cats also does this to one of my other cats all the time.But she doesn’t do this to the other cats. So she is also practicing selective affection.And she is surely an unhappy cat, because she’s always attacking one of the other cats and, at the same time, living in fear of being attacked by my fourth cat.( I agonize over her problem but cannot find an animal psychiatrist to help me help her).
Both the dolphin and cat in the video and my cats teach us such vital lessons. We, beings, will be happier beings if we accept and love one another , without the discrimination, bias and prejudice that are based on the labels and categories that we have mentally constructed with all beings and phenomena.
OMB! I thought that cats love to EAT anything that swims, not befriend them. The video is so cute. It comes to show that any form of life can be friends regardless of the gap between species. Same goes for humans. It doesn’t matter if you are black or white, you are still a living being that deserves the friendship of others. Humans have a lot to learn from animals.
I know of people who have their pet dogs and their pet cats live together in great harmony. Cats and dogs are known to be arch enemies. This shows me that if any relationship is nurtured with much patience, love and care, great differences can be overcame and harmony can be achieved.
WL
don forget, there might be some karmic relations as well.