Einstein gets a life jacket!
This is really something that will touch your heart and you will be amazed how much love and patient some people have.
On a daily basis, there are many stories on the Internet of how animals are abused and neglected. A few days ago, I came across a story that I wanted to share with all of you…
A man in the UK, Leighton Naylor, felt sorry for his goldfish when he became ill and unable to swim. Instead of discarding him, and getting a new fish… he made him a life jacket!
When I read about this story of Einstein the goldfish, I was so touched by Naylor’s kindness! I love fishes too, and have many in my Ladrang. They are very smart and will come near me whenever I’m about to feed them… very cute.
Naylor who treats all of his pets as a family member couldn’t bear to see poor Einstein in such a state… so he did something about it. It’s amazing how true care can bring out within us strength and creativity. I guess that’s why those who care always manage to find a way to make a positive difference in other people’s lives.
Do read this touching story of Naylor and his friend Einster… share it with your friends!
Tsem Rinpoche
Watch how Einstein swims!
Man Makes A Life Vest For Pet Fish Who Can’t Swim
A 32 year old man, from Blackpool, UK named Leighton Naylor has made a lifejacket for his pet fish named Einstein. Einstein was a healthy fish who had been learning to do tricks when he was struck with the illness that affected his swim bladder, making it impossible for him to swim anymore.
Einstein would turn upside down and sink to the bottom of his tank. Naylor said, “Then he sank to the bottom, stuck on his side, and couldn’t go any further. He just looked depressed, the poor fish. I was heartbroken. I thought I’m going to have to do something about this.”
Naylor used some recycled tubing to create a buoyancy aid. This little device made it possible for little Einstein to swim around the tank instead of sinking to the bottom.
Naylor said, “People have said I’m crazy but every animal is a valued family member… I’ve tried to train all of my fish but Einstein’s my star pupil. He can swim through my fingers and he was getting into fish football when he fell sick.”
What a beautiful story!
[Extracted from: http://www.vegfriend.com/forum/topics/man-makes-a-life-vest-for-pet-fish-who-can-t-swim]
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This is so cute and wonderful because it shows that Einstein’s owner cares and that is the correct care you should have for your pet even if it is a goldfish, a dog, a cat etc. It is truly thoughtful that Einstein’s owner is so caring because he knows that Einstein is a life and lives need to be taken care of and animals are lives just like us so that is why we should care for them like how we would treat our kids or family.
Other than the fact that it is so cute, the lifejacket must help so much and imagine if the owner was just one person that said “its just a fish, who cares?” then Einstein would have suffered, people in the world think just because they are some type of animal or that they are animals at all that they are below humans. But guess what? We are the SAME so every animal is entitled to rights just like us and they should be taken care of just like us.
This is so amazing and this man is so kind to this fish, i love animals and i would never hurt them ever. Keep swimming Einstein! Faith in humanity restored! Thank you for sharing Rinpoche.
Dear Naylor, thank you that you never give up a little life and help Einstein able to swim again . You are so great and care to your pet, may all pet owners also can take responsible to their pet, not leave them alone when have any suffering.
Dear Rinpoche, this story is so touching! We can see that Einstein really loves Naylor, if Einstein never loved Naylor he wouldn’t even try to swim to the fish football field. I wonder what material does he use to invent the jacket. It just so cool.
Thank You for sharing Rinpoche, this is very heartwarming. For most of the people, when their pets are either sick or old, they will just abandoned them. I’m very touched by Leighton’s kind act, I think that he gave Einstein a second chance to live. Great person!
谢谢仁波切的分享与开示，所以我们对地球上的一切众生都要有慈悲心，当它们需要帮助时，我们就要出手相助。自从来到了克切拉佛教团体后，有时看到蚂蚁掉进水杯里，我会把他们救上来。有时感觉我的慈悲心有增加了，以往我是不会这样做的。我会在加油！！
Dear Rinpoche,
It’s great that even though Little Einstein may just be a small Goldfish it is great that Naylor cares to help Little Einstein by making him a aid to help little Einstein swim
Like what Naylor said that many people think he was crazy I think he is really compassionate to help a little goldfish!
This is truly a heart warming story!
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing!
Love
Jutika
Marvelous. Leighton Naylor is so kind and creative to help Einstein in whatever possible way he could, to help Einstein to swim as a fish. Imagine a fish cannot swim is like a man who cannot walk and no freedom at all. it’s all about helping each living being around us. When we develop equanimity among all living beings, our world will become a safer and more peaceful place to live.
This is lovely. This story tells that we do not abandon our loved ones when they are sick or not able to live independently. Miracles always happen when we take up the challenge and tried.
From the title I thought Einstein “the scientist” was in trouble! I’m a gold fish enthusiast once and have read that this is the inherent weakness of gold fish. We can just watch our gold fish die a slow death once it show sign of swim bladder “disease. Naylor had proofed us all wrong wrong with little ingenuity when come to saving his pet fish!
Yes, people might say he is crazy, and I believe that he is, but crazy with love and compassion! He is “crazy” of having a very good heart in wanting to value every animal as a dear family member. Who knows, perhaps the fish ‘Einstein’ could be his previous mother in his past life, and now he is treating him as his star pupil. When Einstein fell sick and could not swim, Naylor was frantic with depression and got heartbroken. Yes, that’s what Naylor is. He is crazy with love and compassion, which not many people have! That is why he took so much trouble to create a bouyancy device to make it possible for his dear little precious Einstein to be able to swim around the tank again,, to relieve his suffering, like what a Bodhisattva will do. May you be greatly blessed Naylor, you are my star, my hero and my greatest joy!
What a conincidence, one of my previous dog’s name is Einstein too.
Einstein is so fortunate to have a good master who takes care of his welfare. Every living being deserves a chance to live and it is so heart warming to see Naylor made a life jacket for his pet fish. If not for the caring Naylor, Einstein would have been dead by now.
People may say that Naylor is crazy, but to me Naylor is a very compassionate man who values every animal as a family member.
If we want to help any being we will find a way to make it happen, as we all have ingenuity and talents and we call can do something for others. We will find a way through to any problem.
Mr Leighton Naylor is such a kind and compassionate person who really treats every animal as a valued family member, rejoice!
So thoughtful of him to invent such a cute little life jacket for his pet fish that couldn’t swim due to injury, because of the loving care from Naylor, his fish could swim now, long live the fish! The story is so touching and inspiring.Thank you for sharing Rinpoche.
I really love this story very very much! I am so happy to see people treat animals with love and care.
What Rinpoche wrote on the above is so right. “It’s amazing how true care can bring out within us strength and creativity. I guess that’s why those who care always manage to find a way to make a positive difference in other people’s lives.”
When we love a person/a pet so much, we will never give up and let them die. This type of greatest love arises from a simple heart of true love that will never give up no matter how.
And I am shocked to know that people said Naylor is crazy for saving a fish. I would say those who don’t save their pets or loved ones are crazy…I don’t say this in a negative way but it is true. Why we don’t save/help them when we can??
Thanks for sharing this wonderful story with us Rinpoche!
Is such a compassion act ! Animals deserve to be happy and care no one like to be abandon especially when they are sick animal also the same. Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this blog post with us.
Ingenious!
Love this story! Naylor and Einstein sure has a beautiful friendship. The life vest is such a creative and innovative contraption. Thank you for sharing this heartwarming story.
OMB, the gold fish is cute and adorable.
Leighton Naylor is so compassion and thoughtful hence care for his gold fish.
May this article open up our Bodhisattva seeds in our mind hence be more compassion and care to all mothers sentient beings…
Thank You Rinpoche for sharing such touching story.
Many people would have just bought another fish and trained it from scratch but Leighton Naylor opted to help this fish to swim like other fishes. Fish that’s not able to swim is a really sad thing, it’s as though a human who’s bedridden and not able to do anything. Animals deserve love and care. They have feelings too!
This beautiful story of Leighton Naylor and his goldfish, Einstein, really does show the extent of one’s ingenuity when one cares. The mind will think out of the box to come up with amazing solutions. Many would think goldfishes as decoration for their houses but Leighton had gone beyond that to interact and care for them, conscious of them as living beings. Thank you Rinpoche for this heartwarming story to show us kindness.
Thank you, Rinpoche for sharing this story. To be honest, many people who have opted for poor Einstein to end his life because there is nothing in the fish-library that could save him. But there is certainly something in love and compassion that could. 🙂
Cute little goldfish. Especially with the life jacket. Makes Einstein look like a floating astronaut! He is very lucky to have a master like Naylor. Given any other homes, Einstein would have died by now. How Naylor sees animals like humans is inspiring as he clearly said “People have said I’m crazy but every animal is a valued family member”. Very Buddhist.
This is fantastic! I never would have imagined a life vest for a fish 😀 its so creative and kind. I would imagine that if people saw a fish that couldn’t swim, they would just leave it to suffer. But whoever did this and put all the effort onto making it possible for this fish to swim again is so compassionate.
谢谢仁波切的分享。
这个分享真的令我领悟到新的东西。 其实我以前认为杀死小生物如蚂蚁或蚊子是没什么大不了的。 不过想深入一层杀死一只蚂蚁和杀死一只狗的业其实是一样的。
所以我们不应该有“小而为之” 的心态。
在这个视频中， 鱼的主人没有因为残障的是一只鱼而见死不救。 所以众生是平等的。
It is just so great that little Einstein gets a second chance in life. I believe that not many animals do have a chance like that. As many people would think that it is too troublesome for them, hence they would discard these sick animals and buy a new one as their pet.
I am so happy that with Naylor’s love for his fishes have given the second chance to Einstein so that he can live for a longer period of time. It is just so amazing what people can do so much things because of their care towards a cause.
this is such a nice story, i love it when people go and care for animals and help them. i am so happy Einstein got a good life vest and is now swimming nicely. thank you for sharing Rinpoche
感恩仁波切的分享，就像Jerry 说得：没有真切地给予一切我们能给予的帮助，这是我们要重新深思的一环．常常对负伤的小动物念念经就以为自己已经做得很足够．这段片提醒了我们，我们能做远远不止这些！
感恩仁波切的分享与开示
这是如此的感动人心分享，当我们开始将我们的爱给予与帮助在一切有情众生的身上，那份感动是动容心玄的，这是一份有力的鼓舞，感恩这位朋友给予了这鱼一个重新的生活，让我们更深深体会到，只要我们用心，就一定能给予帮助与彰显我们的爱
我们常常会忘记了，一切众生具有情，当我们遇见一些小动物受伤了或残缺或奄奄一息时，我们常只会给予祈祷或诵经回向予它们，然后呢？我们就这样悄悄地离开了它们，我们并没有真切地给予一切我们能给予的帮助，在仁波切的这个分享里，我们看到的是，只要我们用心并真正施予暖手的时候，即使是再恶劣的状况，它们都将会有了一个重生的机会
我们都得经历无数的转世，累更多的福德资粮，得为人身，并继续精进的修行，好能证悟与离苦得乐，然而我们也许应该想像下，倘若因为我们某些恶业还没有清除下，或我们还是在这一世了造下了许多恶业，那么当我们下一世不得已的投生在畜生道时，刚好的我们投生的与这小鱼一样，可爱但是残缺，那么我们那时候，希望的是我们的主人想尽办法拯救我们，还是希望我们的主人因为我们是残缺的可爱小鱼，而就放任不管我们的生命，让我们自生自灭呢？倘若我们与可爱的残缺小鱼对换角色的话，我想我们都希望获得一件救生衣吧
在仁波切的这个分享里，我学会了，倘若您真的希望拯救一切有情众生时，不应该都只做点到而止，不应该只给予有限的爱，而应该给予完全与无私完全的爱，因为这份无私的爱才是真正的拯救，并不是说我们没有菩提心，而是我们没有把菩提心发挥的更加博大与无限，我们总是给予了无限的藉口抵挡了无限的菩提心，在仁波切的这个分享里，也让我们学会了，一切有情众生具有情，我们不能因为我们是人类就对其他的众生有了分别心，就埋没了他们同样会痛，会哭，会无奈，会伤心的事实，我们与它们只是换个环境与样子或肉体，然而我们的微心识都是一样的，都是充满佛性的，切身地帮助它们，因为我们无法知道我们因为因果循环，我们与它们是会否有对调角色的一天
感恩仁波切您无私的爱，感染了我们的心，感恩您总是给予我们教诲与给予我们鼓励的分享与开示，让我们常能警惕自己，反省自己，感恩您
祈愿一切有情众生都不再受轮回下三道之苦，并能投生有佛法与常闻佛法的地方，以人身精进的学习佛法，祈愿他们与我生生世世都能遇见詹杜固仁波切这一位尊贵慈悲的上师，与仁波切一起参与佛法工作，并能常闻仁波切的教诲与开示，转化我们的心识，学习佛法，把佛法实践在我们的生活上，迈向离苦得乐的证悟之路
感恩仁波切，祈愿您长驻在世，常转法轮
This is extremely cute and amazing. It is so inspirational and touching to see a human being care for such a small creature. Anyone else would just flush the fish down the drain but not Leighton. Good for him! May he have a wonderful life.
The floating vest is soo cute and it fits Einstein perfectly, from here we can see that how much thoughts and work Naylor has putted into inventing this for Einstein. The second picture of Einstein looked very sad. Kindness is when we help those who are not able to help themselves out of the pure motivation for the sake of them to be well and happy. Naylor has made the first step to be the solution instead of just neglecting poor Einstein. People like him is hard to find nowadays, let us remember Naylor act of kindness and always be the solution of a problem. Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this adorable heart warming post.
Animals deserve love and care, stop cruelty now!
Leighton Naylor just wants to help help his pet fish, Einstein, which I think is very simple and pure. Many people would just pick up Einstein and throw him into the rubbish bin; but not Leighton. And he came up with an ingenious design of this life jacket. It is literally a life jacket for it give Einstein a second chance to live. It alleviated Einstein’s depression and certain death.
Thanks Leighton for this inspirational act.
Thanks Rinpoche.
Oh my goodness. . how cute. It’s amazing, and so touching that Leighton cared even about the smallest little fish.
I love how the bigger goldfish takes a peek at the life jacket before turning left. .this video really my restores faith in humanity. thanks for sharing Rinpoche