Question

If someone is born as an animal, has he or she any chance to develop their Paramis?

Answer

If you take a good look at animals you will see some animals do good things. Some are trained that way, like a dog that's used for blind people - that's definitely good Kamma. Some have it in their nature, an example would be of a bird in Australia called the Kookaburra. It's also called the laughing bird. It's head is about as big as it's body, and in the early mornings at sunrise and the early evenings at sunset you can hear Kookaburras out in the woods with their laughing cry. Sometimes during the day as well but classically morning and evening.

Now the Kookaburra has a habit of adopting orphaned baby Kookaburras. Rosemary's parents once found a baby Kookaburra on the ground. It had obviously fallen out of a tree. They took it home and they were trying to feed it and they didn't know really what to do with it. One of their neighbors said, "Oh don't worry, you feed birds, don't you?" Which they did. They fed kookaburras and a lot of other birds in their backyard. The neighbor told them to put the baby bird out there in the backyard while they were feeding the other birds. No worries.

So they did and the very next time the Kookaburras came in to get some feed, one of them looked at the baby, hopped over to it, stared at it and flew away. Five minutes later it came back with a big worm and Australia has BIG worms. They are half a meter long! And this mummy or daddy Kookaburra started shoving it down the baby's throat. Immediately started feeding this baby Kookaburra. This went on for a few weeks until the new parent got the baby one up into a tree and taught it how to fly. Then off it went. Good Kamma, Parami development - yeah, I think so.

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