Appreciation of our Life - Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Shambhala

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The animals can't understand our speaking words, they can't understand those abstract concepts like nothingness, they can't plan far into the future. But they have fear of death like every other living being, human, dog, bird. They feel infinite love for others, human and non human. They know how to live in the now. Our human cognition often stands in the way of doing this. So we find meditation and seek our way back to that state of mind of being in the now. Love is everything.