Amazing Giving
Very nice email from Ms Wendy Loh. I really appreciate this sharing. Thank you Wendy.
Tsem Rinpoche
Dear Rinpoche,
Greetings! How are you? I hope that you are feeling great, happy and relaxed. :-))
I have taken the liberty to share with Rinpoche a picture that I saw on FB and I was so touched by it. This is nothing short of total compassion, love and unconditional giving. It puts me to shame, the so-called little charity I do. This lady who shows equal love to all sentient beings must be an emanation of the Great Compassionate Kuan Yin.
With folded palms,
Wendy
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Truly touching a mother’s love while breastfeeding her own child on one breast and the other feeding an animal. Could not believe what I saw ….is weird but second thought its touching . Words are not enough to express the unconditional love that exists between a mother and that baby animal. I have heard of babies been fed by cows or sheep when mother could not have enough milk for their babies but not the other way. It can chance someone’s life forever ,when we are generous in giving nor matter small.
Thank you Rinpoche and Wendy for sharing this. A teaching of giving unconditional love, compassion to all sentient beings.
How generous and compassion of this lady. No matter how little we have we can still share. Thank you Wendy for sharing this picture and it reminds me to give and love all beings.
At first, this picture disturbed my mind. Upon further inspection, I couldn’t believe what I saw. This is beyond expectation and perception. If she were to be term uncivilised, then we are Barbarian. Full stop!
This is beyond words can describe. Thank you Wendy Loh and Rinpoche for sharing this.
Some may look at the picture as obscene but if one look deeper, it is incredible to see how the woman gave despite feeding an animal. How something that many will comment negatively or react negatively, just because we cant do it, doesnt mean that it is wrong.
Compassion come in many ways and this is one of the many I have seen. May all of us have the compassion like Chenrezig always.
The say a picture paints a thousand words… well this just goes to show that a “true” mother’s love in really beyond boundaries!!! They say a mother could go to hell and back for her child. And I do not know if this is true but what I have noticed is that the poorer you are the more humble you are. We normally read, see and hear amazing acts of compassion and kindness from those who are not rich in wealth and materials but rather those that are poverty stricken and those who have nothing. Perhaps it is true, when you have nothing, you got nothing to lose and thus less attachments, judgemental and lesser the ego… which makes a person more sensitive, more kinder and more generous. It is strange isn’t it that those that can give wholeheartedly and sincerely are those who we deem have nothing yet they are so rich in the “human spirit”.
Such a powerful picture. A truly wonderful mother. I guess we can only understand a mother’s compassion by becoming one. Mothers are compassion and kind and loving by nature. =)
That is why it is even more important to not eat meat as the meat we are about to consume was once our kind mother. Our mother carried us in her womb, nursed us, took care of us, it wouldn’t make sense to repay her kindness by eating her/her current incarnation..
All the more reason to stick to our vegetarian diet. =)
Thank you for sharing, Wendy!
and thank you, Rinpoche!
The biggest love in the world is mother love, she use her life to bet when deliver us to this world. Mothers always can extremely giving not only for the related person only. Thanks Rinpoche for sharing this inspiring photo.
We will always feel that our mother very talent for nagging us, but actually after the time past the nag will be the precious remind and advice for us.
May all mothers in this world good health good fortunes, u all is the best. “Muak” I Love U Mum…
爱，就是按对方所需要的付出，这就是人生的真爱。
This is a beautiful picture of this Native woman with child.I believe they are from a tribe in the Orinoco jungle in the rainforest of Brazil. They believe in Nature and spirits of nature.Now you have to understand that they hunt.They hunt animals and if there are orphans left behind from the mothers they hunt,then they keep these animals as pets. They respect nature but they are not vegetarian :)))
Unconditional love! Truly beautiful!
Compassion can transcend many boundaries as shown in this example.
Many mothers today are handicapped in the name of civilization (of course not all lah). They do not breastfeed their children nor dirty their hand to clean their pooed baby. Society has labeled formula milk powder is much more superior to breast milk. Only the well to do family could afford formula milk and maid for their baby. Of course, the advertisement contributes some share in the demand for formula milk too. Thus, the society formed the perception that formula milk and maid are the best option for both mother and baby. That is the reason why some people will find this picture unnatural.
A few years back, when I visited Orang Asli settlement in Kuala Gandah and I heard one of my husband’s colleagues commented that the Orang Asli was so unclean and uncivilized. Then inside my heart I felt we have to depend on the Orang Asli to help us to survive in the jungle when we have no choice but to hide in the jungle. Most city people are handicapped in the jungle and most likely will become the prey of wild animals if they were to live in jungle. The civilized ones need the uncivilized ones, possible???!!!
I have limited time to read Rinpoche’s blog and this picture catches my attention and I couldn’t resist sharing my thought….. It is really ashamed that the human race replaced the formula milk for human’s breast milk in the name of beauty, individual’s convenience and civilization. (My view here does not apply to those who have no choice in scarifying the quality/precious time with their baby.) Thank you for sharing the picture. This picture indicates that the more civilized we are, the further away we are from our good nature.
Unconditional love and giving is the quality of Buddha nature.
This picture cuts through all our perceptions and projections and labeling. Our gross perception makes us label this woman as uncivilized and her show of great borderless compassion as uncivilized conduct. Yet when we cut through our gross perceptions and projectons, we see the reality as a spontaneous act of true love, because it stems from seeing all beings as equally important because they are all mother sentient beings.
Mother’s milk is the essence of life to babies. Seeing how this kind lady can give so spontaneously her milk to the little animal put “civilized” people like me to shame.
this is pretty incredible. Most of us wouldn’t even share things between our kids and other kids. I know plenty of people in our so-called civilised society who think animals are beneath us and that humans are superior. In the end, their behaviour is worse than animals, more barbaric, more unrefined. These same people would also probably look down on this woman, for where and how she lives. Actually, if we’re looking at how far we’ve progressed, this woman beats us all out of the water – that she’s able to transcend all the boundaries and labels that the rest of us so-called “civilised” people put on each other. She has a boundless generosity, kindness and compassion – for all our education, exposure and material riches, how many of us can say we have that?
I agree. Sharing has become such a rarity in today’s society. Even something as simple as letting a car pass or giving a packet of food to a stranger. ‘Civilization’ has gotten in the way of living.
This Picture is amazing, it tells us everything, compassion with no boundaries. Really really touched!!!
Thank you for sharing Rinpoche and Wendy.
this lady is not civilised.she just gives out of compassion.she could harm herself with her generosity as the animal could transmit diseases to her.you can say she is foolish but she acted out of compassion.Nevertheless in her mind.she treats animal same like her child.
When I saw this picture, I asked myself having been a mother, can I do what this lady is doing? I have no answer, and I felt a little ashamed. Questions like, what is generosity and how to practise generosity keep running around my head.
This picture is very very empowering for me to rethink how to give and how to love, this picture is a true illustration of universal love and care without boundaries.
So this is what life in Malaysia is like.
Wow great compassion。I “m a mother myself, but I cannot do this. Thank you for the sharing. Great effort from Wendy. Keep up the good work
this pic depicts the phrase what universally agreeable: Unconditional Love. Love, caring has no boundaries, and this picture speaks for itself. Treating every sentient being the same. Thank You Wendy for sharing this meaningful Picture to Rinpoche and everyone to understand.
常常听说爱无彊界，看这幅图就知道了。母爱，永远是无止尽的，不仅只是对待自己的孩子，只要任何生物，能勾起一位母亲的爱，她都会奋不顾身地付出，而从不求回报。
仁波切常常对我们说，要把爱的界限放得更远更广，这点不是每个人做得到。但，我想只要看了这张图，多少都有所触动吧！！至少，这一刻的我，的确是。
Like how we are brought into the world, all three beings are bare naked. When we are brought into this world, we have nothing. When we pass on, we bring nothing with us. Might as well share all that you have,whatever you can give, whilst living. A hungry being is ultimately a hungry being, no doubt about that.
I love the equality between the animal, the mum and the child that is perfectly illustrated in this picture. Such kindness and compassion.
Thank you for sharing, Wendy and Rinpoche.
Very beautiful picture. Mother’s love is great! Look at her… she has nothing! But she shared her milk which probably the only food for her baby to survive to the little cub. Other than love and compassion and giving I also saw the connection of each other in the great mother nature.
i want. i want.lol.
On first sight it looks a little strange but if you think deeper, what is wrong? Giving life and easing the suffering of the poor animal is not negative. And besides, humans drink milk from cows which are another species!
I think it is just our perceptions that lead us to label the act above as ‘wrong’. Indigenous peoples such as that lady above are much more in tune with nature and with the understanding that we are all dependent on one another to survive.
i like very much what DR said… ” are much more in tune with nature and with the understanding that we are all dependent on one another to survive ”
DR is a great example thru her work via KSK.
wishing you well always
As HH DALAI LAMA speech recently that woman always show more compassionate and motherly love. He also stressed that if one day the world conquer by woman, it will be a better place. Brings more peace and harmony to others…
Display of unconditional love, kindness and care…an act where this woman has shown can put shame to many.
Thank you for sharing.
It’s really an unconditional compassion and kindness to all sentient being.
Pure Love!
Beautiful person.
The mother of all sentient being!
Universal love for all sentient beings, Buddha’s nature!
lol.quite obsene also.
Only if you see it like that. “Obscene” is an opinion, not a Reality. Reality is Reality. “Obscene” is a thought, an ephemeral thing, and not self. It doesn’t even belong to you, never mind the Reality. If the thought was self, as soon as it’s gone, so would your self be gone.
Opinions are practically irrelevant to Reality: Reality is as it is. “Good” and “Bad” or “Pure” and “Obscene” do not exist in the objects from their own side – that is a mental interpretation, an extraneous thing, an irrelevant addition by which we are fooled.
The senses have no thought, and thoughts are ephemeral.
Limitless love… Very touching and good example. Thank you for sharing to Rinpoche and Ms. Wendy 🙂
A motherly love quality towards other beings ~ EQUANIMITY!
有些爱我们不敢正视，因为这种爱的光芒直视我们，还有照射我们内心那份自私和渺小。