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Does A Cat Have Buddha Nature ?
Shoshin
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Kia Ora,
The cat's name is "Tara"
Well..........................
Metta Shoshin 
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No. But it has instinct and is conscious of loyal companionship.
It's a move in the right direction...
My cat appears perfectly content with her own nature and would probably look at the offering of a Buddha Nature as another example of the help getting uppity.
Perhaps if I had named her Tara instead of Zena, things might have been different.
The cat has buddha nature but lacks leisure, endowment, and a teacher.
KIa Ora ,
:coffee:
So what's a sentient being ?
Do all sentient beings have Buddha Nature ?
Metta Shoshin
A sentient being is any who want something.
This is Swirly G. You tell me if she has "Buddha nature"...lol! I can say she has taught me a lot though. Bob
Kia Ora MeisterBob,
She looks so serene/laid-back(but always alert) so I'd say she does... :cool: cat...
Metta Shoshin
Kia Ora Jeffrey,
Or no thing....:rolleyes:
Metta Shoshin
So your point is no point right? Or am I right?
yes I am right.. because I am right, right!
To my cat, sentience is just the spice of life
...to make dinner more interesting.
Kia Ora Anataman,
Right, you're bloody well right
you know you got a right to say
Right, you're bloody well right
you know you got a right to say
Ha-ha you're bloody well right
Yeah-yeah you're bloody well right
you know you're right to say
Me, I don't care anyway!
:coffee:
Metta Shoshin
@Shoshin are you from New Zealand? I looked up Kia Ora
Lol
In indras net there must be a spider RIGHT!
There once was a man who was duped
and he paraded himself as a nuke
and all he could do
when he blew and he blew
was blow with all of his might
Oooggghhhhh,
I was there in
1979 from the Breakfast In America Tour ...Supertramp...Vancouver BC
where they didn't need fog machines to get that background lighting effect.
and...they seemed to actually remember the words to their hit??
Kia Ora Jeffery,
Yes I live in beautiful Aotearoa (Maori name for NZ) but I'm not a native (born here)...
Metta Shoshin
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A cat does have buddha nature; as does my dog
Well, the answer to does a dog have Buddha nature is Mu. So the answer to does a cat have Buddha nature must be Muow.
Kia Ora to Brits of a certain age means a brand of orange squash..
So Pepsi Cola to you too Soshin.
According to the video, 'yes', for the 'cat'; no for the dog but I don't wan to be a cat or dog. It is said it is more fortunate to be a human.
Kia Ora,
If cats have Buddha Nature then this dog must have too--
Metta Shoshin
then answer to does a cow has Buddhanature is Mow and answer to does a goat has Buddhanature is Mee.
Does anybody really have anything?
It's Buddhanature that has us, let's not kid ourself.
If separation is illusion and one chunk has Buddhanature then it stands to reason that Buddhanature exists in even the most unlikely of places as that little piece of yin in the most extreme polarity of yang (or the Buddha unawakened within Mara)
I mean Mu... Yeah, Mu's the ticket.
Swirly G! Zen master!
I see the point as less about whether Buddha nature is universally present and more about whether we are actually prepared to face everything as such.
It's getting to the point where it's either sink or swim I think, @how...
Ready or not, I love you.
I am big on sinking, when the swimmer and the water, represent identities view of self verses other.
Now we're getting deep.
Getting deep!! Hah! Geddit?? 'deep'...?
Oh, never mind..
Deja vu to you two.
Yeah but they don't... They represent a scenario where we either wake up a bit as a whole or perish.
A bit too cryptic for me to know what your speaking of without a frame of reference.
A dog chases a cat down the street, nobody cares. A cat chases a dog down the street, the internet loses its mind.
Kia Ora,
Lucky you...Those were the days...But I think these days are much better...
Obtaining a more natural high-no more ganja smoke fogging the mind...
Metta Shoshin
@Cinorjer, that's not the point : what happened prior to that is what people are amazed at.
New Zealand sentient beings:
XD
Yep, they're amazed that a cat protected someone from its family against something bigger and supposedly more dangerous. Again, something we expect dogs to do all the time but seems absurd to expect a cat to do it. So why do people have cats as pets instead of dogs? You might be able to tell I'm a huge dog fan and not so much a cat fan.
But I'm just joshing with folks. Glad the kid wasn't hurt.
I'm probably more of a dog person than you are, if that's possible, being a Dog Behaviourist, so I take your point... But the boy was actually quite severely bitten. His wounds needed hospital attention.
And your impression of peoples' expectations of dogs is quite mistaken. The one major fear most dog owners have is that, in apparently being protective, their dog will be perceived as, or even actually be, aggressive and hurt someone.
People don't 'expect' their dogs to do what the cat did. In fact, they live in hope it won't.