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- During one of my hardest time in life
- I had a dream
- ‘Buy a little bird and set it free’
- The next morning I went to buy a little bird
- And set it free at a temple
- After a short period
- I could feel my problems slowly going away
- And my burden was lightened especially financially
- Looking back, whenever I see a caged bird
- I always pity her and say
- How I wish I could set you free
- I know people think you sing well
- But actually you are crying in pain
- Please forgive them for not realizing that
- They are imprisoning you
- If a hobby of rearing birds by caging them is fun
- I wonder whether they can realize and visualize
- If they could fly
- And somebody were to cage them with golden bars
- Even though the surrounding is gold
- It is of no good
- Just set them free and let them fly
- Caging a bird is caging oneself
- You are actually imprisoning yourself
- You will be trapped with the difficulty of life
- Setting them free is setting free yourself
- If this realization could wake us up
- Certain darkness would be brightened up
- And we can understand and reason out
- Why during Wesak day
- Thousands and thousands of birds are set free
- May there be freedom to all living beings.
- But what is actually setting free?
- It is by not eating them!
- It is more meaningful than setting them free once or twice
- By not eating chicken or animal meat
- You are setting them free everyday
- Maybe one day someone will free you, if you let it be free
- Never think that we will always be free
- We are actually trapped in this world
- With a body that will be sick one day, real sick with pain, like
it or not
- Set free the pain and fear of the pitiful animals
- In return we will be free
- Just like the little bird
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