A very warm welcome to our two new puppys Doh Doh and You You (sounds like Doh Doh and Yo Yo in English) which mean Beans because the black one is full of beans, bouncing and jumping everywhere and gentle/calm and elegant for the brown one 🙂 Bless them, they are two months old born on Christmas Day, they canme to us on Saturday evening and already they know how to sit and stay, come when we call them, go to the bathroom where we told them to go and not enter our kitchen 🙂
I’m so grateful and thankful to have them in our lives.
The other day I was talking to a business friend about the seeming rise in bullying in the workplace. “Well”, he replied, “it is a dog eat dog environment this business world we are in.” I was quite amused at the expression. Not that I had not heard it before but rather it had taken on new dimension for me and also my surprise that it was somewhat accepted in the workplace as normal everyday practice.
It may well be a dog-eat-dog world but do we have to live like dogs? When we were born we were given the gift of humanity yet somehow we seem hell bent in reversing to animal instincts. It only takes one of us to reclaim our humanity with our potential for a Higher Mind then the dog will eat out of the hand that feeds it and may even recognize its true self in the reflection.
Recently, we were walking close to our home when we came across two dogs viciously fighting and drawing blood one from the other. “Quick” called my wife. “give me the biscuits from the shopping bag Let’s feed them” as she rushed towards them with hands outstretched offering them the biscuits. “This is like dharma food for them”, she smiled. The food of the Bodhi Mind is the only nutrient that can bring us back to humanity.
Mahatma Gandhi said: “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But if we live like this we will be a world full of blind and toothless people.” Dog eat dog. If we behave like this we will all eventually become the way we behave – dogs.
Endless Light and Love 