
Ep. 160 - Practice In Daily Life: Intention
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
The Children's Tale of a Parrot in a Forest
This is kind of your bedtime story, part of to night lecture. Once a long time ago, when you were much younger than you are a the buddha was born as a parrot in a great forest and befriended many animals. And they lived together until one year when there was very little rain. And then all of a sudden, at the end of the dry season, there was a thunder cloud that came, but without water. And the lightning struck the forest, and a great fire began. The whole forest started to burn, as is told in this children's tale. All the animals began to run, the deer as fast as they could, the lions and tigers
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