Here, perhaps, is an expression of Horace Sykes' '"Buddha-nature" with three cranes standing in a tideland raked by waves into a Zen garden, watching the horizon for a flower lesson and some liberation from suffering by meditating on the suffering of all sentient beings, cranes included. Could it be the practice to keep the smartest but yet wackiest sentient beings from destroying themselves and all others including cranes and distracted gulls? (Click to Enlarge the Tableau)
