A Congregation of Cows: Moo Haiku (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781733597920)

There they are, dotting the hillsides and plains all across the country. Other than children in the backseats of cars or vans, few notice the wide-eyed cows and calves that lumber innocently along their self-created paths behind barbed wire. The lives of cows are quiet and uneventful. Or are they? These precious bovines are not just fodder for meat or leather; they are precious beings--as are all animals, birds and fish--regarded by many Hindus in India as sacred. How can anyone even think of killing it? No cow is an it; every cow is a she. What can we learn from the gentleness of bovines in our mist? Bashō, the father of Japanese haiku, said: "Go to the pine to learn from the pine." In the same spirit, I say: "Open your heart to the cows and deepen your capacity for kindness and ahimsa (harmlessness)."in that other world moo means mu*sweet grassa newborn calfnuzzling her mother*her face, her gazethat one could bemy mother now*freeway driveif I could, I would jointhe congregation of cows

Author: Nathaniel Altman,Robert Epstein
ISBN-10: 1733597921
ISBN-13: 9781733597920
Publisher: Middle Island Press
Language: English
Published: 02/12/2019
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.25d