Buddha and the Cat

http://youtu.be/lQWudtShYP0

Alethea Thompson wrote: i- what do you see in this story?

They should have sent someone else for medicine &or fed the cat. Buddha is alive and well in all of us.

crystale wrote: http://youtu.be/lQWudtShYP0

If the rat does not steal, and the cat does not murder due to its nature.. One question remains to me, how to know if someone is a rat or cat in its nature behaviour?

If someone does something like: stealing, murdering or some kind of sadistic actions, I can not look in a persons mind and say:,, He did this because it is his natural behaviour, as he always have done.''
If I can not see if someone has changed his way of acting in the past, how can I know how to act on his ''Natural behaviour?''

Does this mean that the monk want to say that we should not act on some ones past because we do not know it properly?

In the thread of the topic, this video can to be observed as
one point of view from other angle.

(One tale where tell that cat is held as cursed creature.
and posterior analizis...)

About the other points,I think that the change can to be also
a natural behaviour...

Some cats do not hunt rats...

(please take as metaphore)

but...apologies ...

I did see a cat that
not kill the rat (real cat and real rat)


Natural behaviour is hard to know and also is hard
to know,about of person minds...

but: what can to be consider natural
behaviour?

I opine we do not know "many things".



Regards
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Saw an unusual show the other day about unusual animal relationships, and included a few which were predator and prey becoming best friends!! I think all this stuff about 'animal nature' is merely referencing unguided instinct. I cannot speak to the capacity of non-human animals to have complex enough thoughts to override those instincts, but the show seemed to highlight that at least other peaceful instincts like the benefits of trusted companionship or love could override the more common ones of exerting power for hunger and security. Though I'd have to watch the show again, perhaps there was some influence of humans - because pet's are a good example of a non-human animals becoming 'tame' when given role models which provide those things (food, security, company etc). So I do not think instinct alone is representative of our nature, at least not in humans, rather instinct seems to be one aspect which can work with the conscious thinking mind, but also against it sometimes.

I have seen predator/ prey relationships in which they go along, however, in most cases they were introduced at a very young stage, and brought about in a fairly domestic seen in there development, and in all cases, there was ample food source.

The cat in the story was hungry, and I see no indication of domestication in the story, at least for the cat.