Crows are greedy. They like shiny, gaudy things, just like young girls, and my crow had very classy taste! This was my first understanding. But after I’d been at the temple for several years, I came to understand that this crow was a bodhisattva who had taken pity on me, trapped as I was by my attachments and desires, living my cramped, claustrophobic life. The bodhisattva had taken the form of a crow in order to help me wake up to the vast, boundless Emptiness of all things. So this is why I am very grateful to my wise Teacher Crow, and why I am grateful to that Swarovski crystal tiara
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