On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 9:00 PM, apollo hell frost < [email protected]> wrote:
> I want to confess something in front of group members. On 6.02.08 I had > send a photo for identification. It was a photo of a "pinned butterfly". I > didn't know that it was illegal. Actually I was interested in butterfly from > very beginning of my life, basically from my childhood. But I just didn't > want to let them go. I didn't know the situation at that time as I was > immature. Nobody was there to correct me also. So i kept collecting until > Surya Prakash ji highlighted the issue. After that I was grounded for some > time to understand what wass going on. Then I started everything again with > camera, not with butterfly net. Now at this point I feel catching butterfly > with camera is much better than killing it. I don't collect any more. > Thanks to the group members . > Well....Valmiki was a bandit before he became a sage, and to give two much more recent examples, Kenneth Anderson and Jim Corbett were hunters before they turned into naturalists....yes, the thing to do is to show hunters that the same satisfaction can be got from "shooting" the creature as from really shooting the creature! We get all the thrill of the "chase", the "capture" and the creature is alive to delight others, too... This ability to let go is, I think, is also a metaphor for the bringing up of our children. Like all other creatures, when they we must let them go free, not pin them down and keep them under our observation; only then can they thrive and grow! Wishing every one a happy time when some are celebrating the birth of a divine Child, Deepa. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Enjoy -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
