Once upon a time, when I was beginning the path of learning meditation, I bought a book to ponder words of wisdom until I reached a meditative state. The book I purchased was " The clever rabbit has Three Hiding Places" a collection of wisdom from Chinese philosophers. I read the book from cover to cover and used the thoughts in the books as mantras to achieve understanding. I don't remember a thing from the book, but here is something that has stayed with me from that experience.
One morning I was in Golden Hill Park at sunrise starting a day of meditation. I hear and see things most people do not unless I point it out to them. In order to stop "the monkey brains" I would meditate in the morning to clear my mind's eye. Does not work for me.
On this particular morning I was sitting on a park bench cross legged taking in my surroundings. In front of me was a large pine tree, I think. It had to be a least 30 yards high. Squirrels were doing squirrel things at the base of the tree. I closed my eye and was pondering on ideas from the book "The Clever Rabbit has Three Hiding Spaces."
All of a sudden, a rabbit popped its head out from a hole 90 degrees perpendicular to the tree creating a hypothenuse with me. In front of me was the tree with the squirrels and at a 45-degree angle to my left about 20 yards away was the rabbit poking its head out of a hole.
Next thing I see, is the rabbit starts dashing out of his hole straight towards the tree, where the squirrels are doing squirrel things, then ran directly towards me, passed close by me, and ran pass into another hole.
At that moment the most shocking thing happened, a hawk dislodged itself from the top of the trees and dived through the branches and snatched up a squirrel and went back into the canopy with its meal.
I was dumbfounded and could only think, the Clever Rabbit has Three Hiding Spaces.
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