Other Ways of Being

In his first chapter in The Book of Awakening, Mark Nepo writes that we should be grateful for our human life because we could have been born a plant or an animal or even mineral. That is true; indeed, some traditions believe we have lived millions of lives, accruing the positive karma necessary to live even a single human life. Despite that gratitude and awe for my life, I sometimes I look at plants, animals, the wind, the rain, and the trees, and I marvel at the fact that they do not ask th...