Panda Eyesight

Chinese doctors strive to implant artificial crystal for panda with bad sight (click for link).

Pandas have health problems, as do humans. Pandas are generally more healthy than humans due to their diet of bamboo, which is rich in fiber and has no artificial additives. Pandas are, though, susceptible to near-sightedness. Forty to sixty percent of wild pandas suffer from cataracts and other eye diseases. To compensate, Pandas have learned to rely on their other senses, such as smell and hearing, so much so that even a blind panda can be a deadly adversary to one who mistakenly thinks it is an easy target and attacks it. However, because Pandas are non-hunting vegetarian Buddhist pacifists, the loss of eyesight does not make a huge impact on their daily lives. The inability to look outward only strengthens the ability to look inward and this aids the Panda on his or her quest for enlightenment.

The lessons we can learn from today's Panda observations are
1.) Instead of lamenting one skill or ability that you do not have, heighten and perfect the skills and abilities you do have.
2.) Just like the interplay of the yin and the yang, disadvantages often create advantages. Sometimes you must often look hard to find them, but they are there.

Now, mediate on those ideas.

Namaste,

Rob Rob