Perspectives on Unity and Karma
Last week, under a news story about some other tragedy, the news source suggested some other stories I might be interested in. While I don’t usually take these recommendations, as part of my feeble attempt to control the negative media that I permit myself to absorb, this time, the top story caught my interest. At the Metropolitan Zoo in Santiago, Chile, a young man (a child…really…too young to order a beer in the United States), jumped into the lion enclosure, took off all his clothes and began to taunt the lions by shouting biblical quotes. They found a suicide note with the man’s clothing and the note was signed, “Jesus”. In order to save the man, the zoo was forced to shoot and kill the two lions. The male lion had been born into captivity. The female lion had been rescued from the circus. And, in that moment, the lives of the man, the lions and the zoo staff and all the children and adults who witnessed the happening unfold came together in a most unexpected …