Okimas: Stories and poems of enlightened hens

By B.S. Ban

Stories and poems of enlightened hens

 

Stories for all ages to enjoy as fable or meta-narrative, ancient truths to uncover in simple tales and poems to make you cry.

 

The hens in Chukeriland begin to question their preconceived ideas and treatment by human beings.

 

Okimas,

• Language: English
• Publisher: B.S. Ban
• Release date: Dec 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9780645674910

B.S. Ban

Born in Himalaya in 1989, B.S.Ban has a wide knowledge of ancient scriptures, Sanskrit and other languages. With the popularisation of Yoga and Meditation in the West he has a passion to reveal the essence of Eastern teachings from their original source. A lover of nature he may be found in deep philosophical dialogue with birds and trees in the rainforest, but he is always home early to take the hens out for their afternoon adventures.

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To our Mothers

‘Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.’

Buddha

‘Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains

unawakened.’

Anatole France

Preface

Through these simple stories and poems about the chooks, the author would like to convey the essence of eastern teachings. Unless we have love and compassion in our hearts the mere verbal expression means nothing. Wholeness implies the harmony between body, mind and emotion. To love one thing means to love everything; love neither divides nor judges. The author understands that the chooks are one of the most neglected and less loved domesticated creatures. They too exist and anything that exists must go through the same process of life. They too long for a fully fledged life. They too feel the pain as we do, and want to be loved and cared for.

Meditation is the very essence of understanding this truth!

B.S.B

Contents

Two Friends

A sunny winter morning.

Mira

How should the hens meditate?

Lord Okimas

Bertha’s Dream

Poems of life and death

Emily Rose

Wish

Irene, my Queen

Ode to a sick hen

Pocahontas

Leave those hens alone

My hen has died

Lessons from the Taoist hen Mrs. Zhuang Zhou

A philosopher hen

Irene, little hen.

Two Friends

Fed up with political inequality, two members of the opposition party, Mrs. Bertha Beatrice and Irene the Little Flower, gave up their political careers and tried their luck in business. It was only a few months ago that a great guru from a far away country had visited their small nation which was called The Chukuriland and given a speech in Parliament about the importance of yoga and meditation. Ever since then, the youth of the country had been showing great interest. Bertha Beatrice, perhaps the most cunning and smartest hen in all of the country, saw the opportunity to start a business. She spoke with her best friend Irene the Little Flower and together they opened a shop called The Yoga Mattress Shop. They wrote a signboard with big bold letters and put it at the entrance of the village and in market places.

The signboard read thus:

great quality yoga mattresses

including the gloves and elastic trousers.

buy one and get one free.

The youth of the nation, always looking for comfort in everything, swarmed the shop and all stock went within a few hours. Bertha and Irene the Little Flower, excited by their success, employed hens from all over the country and opened a big factory that produced different shapes, sizes and colours of clothes and mattresses for yoga and meditation. Within a few months Bertha and Irene became two of the richest people in the village.

It is said that when God created living creatures, he gave ‘Greed’ as a present, and told them that it is the most precious thing he had ever invented and given to them. Every living creature on Planet Earth carries this most precious gift of God in their hearts. Bertha and her friend Irene had been carrying this gift ever since they opened their eyes to the world around them. Unfortunately, greed has no limit! It is like the waters of the ocean. When they saw their great success in the mattress and clothing business, they wanted more.

One morning sitting outside their shop they thought about expansion.

‘What if we open a yoga and meditation school as well and teach all the interested youth of the nation? They will buy our clothes and learn from us. All the money will come to our pockets.’

‘But we don’t know anything about yoga and meditation. We haven’t done any of that ourselves’ said Irene.

‘Ah! You silly thing! Why should you be worrying about that? Haven’t you heard that Rome was built in a day? I am too smart for that sort of thing. I can learn that in few hours!’ said Bertha with a smile. ‘But we must find the resource books and I have heard a great yogi lives somewhere near the border. We will go there and ask him to initiate us.’

That day they closed the shop and went into all the available bookshops in the village looking for the best sourcebook on yoga. Within an hour they