Sunday, April 4, 2021

cockatiel doing vitakka, vicāra, vāca, gīta (thinking, pondering, speaking, singing) to a cat


This video is extremely cool. 

At first the bird just chirps and talks to the cat, then at some point, the bird thinks to himself, "oh my gosh! You look just like the cartoon character Totoro!" 

Then the bird starts singing the theme song for 'totoro' (acclaimed classic animated Japanese cartoon, like a Disney classic of Japan).

 All of that required sati and sampajano, (memory, recollection, lucid discerning), 

 vitakka, vicāra, vāca, gīta (thinking, pondering, speaking, singing).

That's why you can't redefine words like vitakka (thinking) to be (not thinking, only placing the mind on a visual kasina). Before you sing, you have to use thinking and evaluation to consider how to modify what you speak into singing. Before you can speak, you have to think about coherent, communicable language from a memory bank of vocabulary. 

Placing the mind on a kasina does not cut it, can not perform the rudiments of communication between humans to humans, humans to animals, birds to cats even as this video shows.




For comparison, this is a picture of totoro in the video, and the theme song music.

You can see the cat in the first video looks just like totoro, in this video he's on the right side of the group (not the cat bus character). 






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