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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Peaceful deer

The deer who visit the back orchard these days let me come quite close before they decide it's time to run away. They are alert but not afraid.They remind me of the deer that were said to surround the Buddha as he sat beneath his tree. Those Buddhist deer are called Listening Deer, because they were so peaceful and attentive to the presence of the Buddha.
But this deer is searching for windfall apples instead of wisdom, as far as I can tell.

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