This child was sitting precariously on a stone wall that lined the trail on a walk to Chomrong one day. We locked eyes for about a minute. Both inquisitive. I've seen this look in animals. "What are you doing?" ... If we as a species were blessed with a DNA that allowed us to remember everything that has happened in human past, a kind of generation to generation memory transfer, I'm sure we wouldn't make the mistakes we are making. Instead we have to learn everything from scratch. This child is taught by us.
Buddhism attracts me because of the "living connection to all things" philosophy. It ties in with modern science. If we can evolve to develop some sort of collective memory, reduce our learning curve, to be like many other species which have to learn really fast just to survive then maybe we will relate better to that around us.
The irony is this kid is already connected and we're doing our best to "un-nature" our children when they have one hell of a job ahead of them protecting an environment we have plundered...
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