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Many years ago my person was traveling alone as a "touris" through Cambodia and had the luck to come across a guide willing to try to show one of the last Irawaddy Dolphines in the Mekong somewhere in the province Kratie. Getting seeing such a kind of big "fish" of which you know that it's kind soon will disapear form this world, causes a special feeling, respect and gratitude, something, even nearly impossible, one would like to share with many.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/DKoehl_Irrawaddi_Dolphin_jumping.jpg/640px-DKoehl_Irrawaddi_Dolphin_jumping.jpg)
In the same manner here and there big fishes can be seen for those with good eyes and maybe some can possible rejoice when seeing as well.
So when ever you feel that you have seen a big one or you feel that "there" it seems on will come to the surface, feel free to make a share.
... Just as if a man with good eyesight standing on the shore of a body of water were to see a large fish rise. The thought would occur to him, 'From the rise of this fish, from the break of its ripples, from its speed, it is a large fish, not a small one.' In the same way, one individual, in discussion with another, knows this: 'From the way this person rises to an issue, from the way he applies [his reasoning], from the way he addresses a question... he is discerning, not dull.'
"'It's through discussion that a person's discernment may be known, and then only after a long period, not a short period; by one who is attentive, not by one who is inattentive; by one who is discerning, not by one who is not discerning': Thus was it said. And in reference to this was it said.
My person likes to open the topic with Upasaka Parinibbanas compassioned try to bring some lost (back) on the path here (https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/the-validity-of-bhikkhuni-ordination-by-bhikkhus-only-according-to-the-pali-vinaya/5489/63?u=samanajohann).
Mudita for the effort and skilled long patient try.