Leopard Saves Baby Baboon—must watch!
Please click on this link to see this incredible touching video. It is amazing how much compassion some animals have for others. It is so beautiful. Share this with others. Wonderful to watch, wonderful to inspire with. The night in which the leopard lays down with a baby baboon!
Please never hurt any animals in anyway. No one wishes to have pain and suffering. Not the smallest insect to the largest animal on the planet to us humans. So do not create the causes or circumstances for others to ever suffer.
Tsem Rinpoche
Or view the video on the server at:
http://video.tsemtulku.com/videos/LeopardNurtures BabyBaboon.flv
How cute! Why is it we’re always touched by stories of different animals becoming best friends? Like this leopard and baboon, and the one about an orangutan and dog, and the elephant and the dog…
I guess it must be the fact they are so different, and they really aren’t meant to be friends but they are. It’s kind of like Kechara people eh? I mean, a quick glance at the lot of us and anyone can tell that outside of dharma, we’d never be caught dead together. But Rinpoche and dharma brings us together, and shows us we’re not so different from one another after all. And after we’re brought together, we work and push each other to benefit others.
People coming together when they aren’t meant to, then rising triumphantly over obstacles always inspires because it just wasn’t meant to happen! (ha, teaches us never to have expectations of what things should or should not be, eh?)
This video shows that Leopard, a great predator, and a baby Baboon, a seriously easy to catch prey, can show care and affection towards each other. This shows that sometimes the moral values that one can learn from animals are really a lot. Humans themselves are in a very bad condition when it comes to friendship compared to the little ones in the great and animal kingdom. Most humans hate each other for no apparent reason at all, is that not bad at all? Humans should be more like this odd pair of animals, to love each other regardless of whether you are black, white, brown, asian, jewish, red etc.
I have always wondered about the “buddha-nature” that I have read. Just as I wondered about the “subtle mind” which Rinpoche taught in your videos. In this video, it immediately becomes clear and more importantly, it becomes evident that the natural essence of all sentient beings is that of goodness, kindness and compassion. In just an instant the predator became a protector. The leopard could NOT have learned compassion in those few moments. It was too quick for external factors to change its nature. Somehow the conditions were right and compassion and kindness broke through and immediately turned the leopard’s focus away from itself, its hunger and its predator instinct, and onto that of the welfare of another being. I was not engrossed in its own needs and wants. Was it the kindness that the leopard developed in one of its previous lives or love that is inherent in all beings that shone through? Whatever it was, it came from within.
That would also mean we all have the high potential for compassion and bodhicitta as stated in all the teachings. It is all there, covered by negative self grasping thoughts.
A leopard van indeed “change it’s “spots” and so can all of us. That it takes an animal to show us how it can be done is also something else. I wonder if human being’s ability to reason and think works against us sometimes.
Thank you for this Rinpoche.
This is beautiful. Thank you
I’ve seen this video before. It shows that animals can demonstrate compassion. It is something instinctive and universal. I wonder what happened to these two animals after that. Did the leopard raise the baboon or did they go their separate ways? Is there a followup of this story?
Dear Rinpoche,thanks for sharing this video. It is amazing to see that even carnivorous animals have a heart and compassion,may be motivated by maternal instincts but just amazing. Love animals and I would never hurt a fly.I truly hope that the animal sancturay can be realized at Kechara.I with I could help you in anyway.I would love to!!
Its really a bittersweet this tale. May we never create the causes to harm another creature or being. I hope the leopard will create the causes to develop compassion over and over again and not just exist as a predator. OM MANI PADME HUM.
Researches have shown that ‘empathy’ is not restricted to humans only but also to animals too, and said to be infact as old as the mammals themselves. ‘Empathy’ is said to be what happens to us when our minds (or thoughts) leave us and turn to others’ minds. Thus we are indirectly turned on to observe the realty of their eyes, felt their emotions and finally begin to share their pains or happiness. Many classic examples have been shown and seen in Dolphins or whales saving human beings from drowning or from sharks’attacks in the open seas. As shown in a real life story seen in a video, recorded by San Francisco Chronicle in Dec.2005:- A 50-ton female humpback whale was caught in a net near Farwan Islands, off the California coast. After rescuers untangled her, the humpback whale swam up to each of them and winked, before swimming off! All rescuers agreed that she was expressing her gratitude. According to research records, whales are known to be intuitively emotional mammals!