I Surrender

I usually don't like rodents, but this short video clips touched a soft spot of mine.

I have been a practising Buddhist for years, but I have always had a skeptical or agnostic view of Buddhist practices. For instance, the Buddha taught us to refrain from killing, but when we put things in perspective, how is that really possible in the real world? It's just like asking a cat not to kill a mouse, it might seem noble and righteous to preach that violence is wrongful, but a cat is just being a cat when it attacks a mouse. It's just not reasonable to ask cats to make friends with mice, it's against their very basic predator nature.

Yet, if I put myself in the shoes of a mouse such as the little dude in this video clip, it is so miserable and sad to be the victim as the cat has no mercy and no remorse when it attacks the mouse. Oh, how I wish the cat would spare the mouse's life! I sympathise so much with the mouse, and I hope that I can intervene and do something beneficial, maybe all of us can just sit down and pray - pray for world peace or something to that extent! Wouldn't it be great if killing can stop in this world for a split second and all lives are spared from harm!

I have no solution to all the senseless violence that is going on in the world, whether cats attacking mice or Israelis attacking Hamas or Russians invading Ukrainians, I really have no solution.

As my late Zen teacher Adam Fisher once taught me, "Take care of yourself, and let the world take care of itself."

I surrender to the One Who Sees and Hears, I give up trying to change the world. Just kill that mouse and stop playing with your food, puss.