Reality Through a Dog’s Nose

 

The topic of this little tidbit is about experiencing reality through a dog’s nose

I read an article in this morning’s Washington Post on how they have trained dogs to detect covid-19 by scent. The dogs can sniff out the virus in people’s clothing and masks, with an accuracy of 96 to 99 percent, because their sense of smell is based on 50 times the scent receptors we have as humans.
Our perception of reality is only as good as the senses we possess as human beings. We all – animal, vegetable and mineral – share the same reality and yet we experience it differently. The underlying basis of Zen is to experience that reality by by-passing the senses and going beyond a rational mind. For how rational can a mind be, if it is not basing it’s conclusions on the fullness of reality. Instead, that which we experience is being filtered through our senses and interpreted by our brains.