English Zen lecture 'Elephant is a merciful animal' by Giken Yoshitomi oshyo

English Zen lecture 'Elephant is a merciful animal' by Giken Yoshitomi oshyo


The elephant rescued a rhinoceros baby.

In Africa, when a baby rhinoceros drank water with his mother, he fell to the swamp. Mother rhinoceros tried to rescue her baby, but she couldn't do. Then she gave up and decided to leave.

The elephant was looking at it from the other side, and he came and tried to rescue the baby by using his long nose. Mother rhinoceros rushed toward the elephant. At that time, the elephant had no choice but to leave. Mother rhinoceros still couldn't help the baby, and finally she gave up and left from there. After that, the elephant came back and finally rescued the baby.

I've never heard that animals rescue another species. The only animal to do it may be an elephant. Elephant is a merciful animal, not only having high intelligence but also an altruistic heart.



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English Zen lecture 'The elephant's altruistic heart' by Giken oshyo

English Zen lecture 'The elephant's altruistic heart' by Giken oshyo


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The elephant's altruistic heart

When the earthquake occurred in Sumatra in December 26th, 2004, people could not notice that big tsunami was coming from the coast. As everybody knows, that was a huge disaster.
However, most of animals said to escape to the hill. Tsunami beat the town of three or four kilometers from seashore.

Elephants immediately began to evacuate. And they tried to save people. They carried people on their back and run away from there. Why could elephants have such an altruistic heart in such an emergency situation? Female elephants and kids usually stay in a group. Having a altruistic heart has been keeping elephant’s society and protect themselves. Elephants seem to have an ability on their gene information.

The sixth master Hui-neng 六祖慧能

The sixth master Hui-neng 六祖慧能


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