FW: [Buddha-l] So what do Buddhist cats pray for?

[Piya Tan]

Think evolving minds. Mind thinks, mind becomes.

There are also the anthropological stories such as the wolf-boy of France,
who could not be
hominified (made human).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_children

Anyway some are already animal in mind despite their human forms.

Metta,

Piya Tan


On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:44 PM, jkirk <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:

>
> What a consoling idea. When I was a kid I and some of my friends used to
> wonder if our pets went to heaven when they died. The ministers offered
> differing answers to such questions. This I the first
> I've heard of a Buddhist heaven for animals. Interestingly, their heaven
> isn't the same for the one the humans might arrive at, so one is not
> reunited in heaven with one's pets or even one's family.
> But wait: isn't Tavatimsa the main heaven, where his mother Queen Maya
> went
> and where he visited her and preached the dhamma? If so then some animals
> and people would be together again.
>
> His descent from this heaven is a favorite illustration, as here from a
> Burman book:
> http://www.buddhamind.info/leftside/lifesty-2/burma.htm
> Looks more like an escalator than a golden ladder.............
> Here is a full dsecription of the heaven:
> http://www.palikanon.com/english/pali_names/t/taavatimsa.htm
> Joanna
> ===================
>
>
> There are Buddhist beautiful stories, mostly in the Jataka and Dhammapada
> Commentaries, of animals dying at peace and being reborn in Tavatimsa, a
> sort of heaven for animals.
> Shakra is the head of the devas there.
>
> Amongst the distinguished animal turned devas there are:
>
> Kanthaka, Siddhattha horse
> Palileyyaka the elephant that attended to the Buddha in the Palileyya
> forest
> The monkey who offered the Buddha some mangoes in the same place The frog
> that was transfixed by the Buddha's voice (Manduka Vimanavatthu)
>
> And I'm sure most of the lovely cats I had.
>
> The point is: treat your pets well, they do to heaven when they die, and
> become devas who will (hopefully) remember you.
>
> With metta,
>
> Piya
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:23 PM, "Kåre A. Lie" <alberlie at online.no>
> wrote:
>
> > At 07:24 24.03.2008 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> > >If Buddhist cats are like the temple dogs in Thailand, they probably
> > >pray for mere food.
> >
> > I don't know if my cat is buddhist or not, but it meditates for hours
> > every
> >
>
>
>
> > day.
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > Kåre A. Lie
> > http://www.lienet.no
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