The Awareness of Pigs
We always assume
A friend of mine pontificated that humans can be Buddhas, but pigs cannot. I laughed. Who knows if pigs can be Buddhas or not? We assume, because they make funny noises and let us eat them, that they must be inferior to our own oh so sophisticated understanding. It’s true that pigs cannot speak at great length about the extreme subtleties of awareness and Buddhahood, or can they? When you don’t speak French, you completely miss the finer points of love….
I once dreamt I was a pig. I gathered all the other pigs together and gave them a great discourse about how to meditate.
“John, we already know all that stuff!” they stiffly let me know. “Every time you eat a pork chop, a sausage, or a ham sandwich, the whiff of our Awareness helps you, too, to get closer.”
I cried then. I simply did not know.
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© “John” Lesly Levin 2022
P.S. OK, so I have discussions with pigs. You probably have some strange abilities, too. My Grandmother Tillie once faced down a whole Czarist army just by shouting at them and insulting their wives.
