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This little booklet can help you to understand dogs better. If you have no idea about dogs, you will get a first overview for a small price. Zen practice helps to develop mindfulness and compassion and to better understand reality. Mindful handling of dogs means species-appropriate dog ownership.
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Introduction
Do I have to become a Zen monk?
What is the meaning of mindfulness?
And how does it work in practice?
What is the nature of dogs?
What about dominance?
Do dogs have conscience?
How are dogs trained?
Why do dogs bark?
What are calming signals?
How do I know if a dog is aggressive?
Should I get a dog?
Does the breed matter?
When can I get a puppy home?
What supplies do I need for a dog?
Which food is best for my dog?
What is toxic for dogs?
How do I give first aid to a dog?
How to house train a puppy?
Can I leave my dog home alone?
How do you recognize a good dog school?
What should I do when the dog is pulling on the leash?
What should I do when there is trouble with other dogs?
Should I have my dog castrated?
What games are right for dogs?
Are throwing and pulling games suitable?
How do I teach "sit" and "down"?
What commands are also important?
What do I do when the dog goes out for hunting?
What do I do when visitors are welcomed too enthusiastic?
Epilogue
Thanks
Recommended reading
Introduction
Another dog book? Sure! Whether you want to bring a dog into your home or you already own one, this little booklet can help you to understand dogs better. Especially if you have no idea at all, you will get a first overview at a small price.
The title may suggest religion or even esotericism, but that is not the case. Rather, the findings from Zen and from Buddhism are used to get a different view of the story.
I myself went through an apprenticeship as a dog trainer in the dog school of Rita Kampmann, Munich, Germany, and subsequently trained myself as a Dog Psychologist nTR with Thomas Riepe. I have gained my practical experience with dogs with my Beagle Mali, who got 18 years old, as well as in the dog school, in a dog daycare and with numerous dog guests at my home.
My Buddhist background began in the last century. Since then, I have been practicing mindfulness in everyday life, meditation, and have attended retreats and Dharma lectures.
Of course, reading this little booklet is not enough to solve all problems with dogs. There are very good dog books, but they are hard to find in the mass of publications. In the appendix you will find an overview of recommended literature. Each of these books is fully recommendable.
We all have a personal relation to dogs, so I will call them "he", for all female and male dogs.
If even one dog should gain a happier life through this writing, the trouble of writing has already paid off.
Do I have to become a Zen monk?
It would not be the worst, but no, you don‘t. The essential realization that is experienced after more or less long Zen practice is that there is no independent existence. Consequently, there is no ego and thus there is no separation between subject and object. This is not intellectually perceptible, but some examples may show what it is about.
There is a wave in the great wide sea, and this wave thinks she is the most beautiful, the best, and the greatest wave that ever existed. And she becomes arrogant because she considers the other waves to be inferior and is now suddenly afraid of not existing anymore. If she did not think this way, she would just see that she was only part of the great sea and did not exist independently, but was connected to all the other waves. She consists even of non-wave parts, namely, only of the substance of the ocean.
Buddhism formulates this in the Heart-Sutra in the famous statement: "Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form".
The realization from this example is that there is no independent existence, even if one thinks there is. In addition, this thinking creates many problems because one does not recognize reality and develops negative qualities such as hatred and greed.
Probably this small intellectual bridge has not yet led to the great realization that the world is like that. Not for nothing, you have to sit in Zen for a very long period of time and just watch. The mind will hopefully be confused by a koan so far as to abandon its intellectual objections.
But if there really is no separation between the subject and the object, then I do all the bad things I do unto others to myself. And that is why it is necessary to lead a mindful life.
What is the meaning of mindfulness?
It is easy to see that all the bad things that you do unto others come back to you again. For example, you have a dispute with someone and you are increasingly raging. You decide to leave the place of the quarrel after violent controversy - still in rage - and in blindness of rage you run into the lane of a vehicle that has a little more energy than you and that is therefore very painful. Or think of old slapstick films, where two opponents continue to pursue their revenge and things get more and more evil, until they finally destroy all their belongings, and come at the happy ending to the conclusion that something has fundamentally gone wrong.
In ethics, therefore, there is also the golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is perfectly logic when one considers that there is no separation between subject and object. Compassion with other beings is therefore nothing other than compassion with oneself.
