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Originally Posted by Shivani Devi
Something happened to me yesterday in regards...
I had just came home from shopping...pulled into my driveway and was about to alight from my vehicle, but I was stopped dead in my tracks.
Just outside the driver's door, in the garden beside the driveway, was a little bird, foraging for its afternoon meal.
It was obviously oblivious to my pulling up beside it, yet I knew that if I opened the door, it would fly away still hungry.
So, I stayed within my car, just watching it through my window...I watched it toss leaves hither and yon with it's beak, picking up the tasty seeds and bugs it had found underneath...scraping the soil with its feet to do likewise...
The bird, of course, knew I was there because every so often, it would stop doing what it was doing, look directly at me for a few seconds, perhaps anticipating my motives, before going back to searching for its meal.
Now, I was in a rush...and yet, did not want to disturb my little birdie friend from its industrious efforts in search and pursuit of sustenance. I just sat there, watching it...and allowed myself, as Buddha did to become the 'observer' of what was going on.
The bird looked at me again and said "yeah...I know you have things to do, so do I...but if you give me five, I'll be outta your way" and I mentally said "It's okay, take your time oh befeathered one".
Suffice to say, after 5 minutes, it flew away after obviously having its fill and I exited my car smiling and chiding myself in spite of myself.
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