Meditation and the little puppy

Meditation of loving kindness can attract so many people towards you. If you practice it, you will become favourite to all of your acquaintance. While I was a monk, I discovered this meditation has an appeal to animals too.

I was a monk a few years ago. Once I was meditating among a few monks. It was dark at night, we were quiet and concentrated on our meditation. I first concentrated on my breathing, then I turned onto the meditation of loving kindness. I imagined- a wave of loving-kindness was originated inside me and gradually spread around the world. It was just after some time, I felt a sense that a little puppy was crawling outside the mosquito-net around us. My mind was full of peace and emanating the waves of loving-kindness. I felt that the puppy moved around the mosquito net and finally crawled beside me. It stayed there until I got up from meditation. I patted on its wool-like back as it seemed to have found a warm place at last. When we all broke up our meditation, we left the place. I didn’t notice any puppy around that place before or after that.

The fact I thought that there were around 12 monks meditating. It took a round around the large mosquito net and finally lay beside me. Why me? I still feel really amazed and thrilled about this fact.