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Steve Boatright's avatar

Ah, cats, sent to teach us presence but with a sideline in rodent control. Doubly useful unless practicing presence by sleeping on clean bed linen

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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Cats reach enlightenment between naps and demand worship between meals. They do not chase nirvana, they nap in it.

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Elham Sarikhani's avatar

Beneath your humor, there’s a quiet precision. It’s a perfect satire of spiritual ambition: how ego sneaks in even through the back door of enlightenment. And yet, it ends not in laughter: the sound of wisdom remembering it doesn’t have to be solemn.

Sometimes, the deepest lesson really is this: the universe blinks, stretches, and wanders off, and that’s enough.

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Kaja Sommer's avatar

🐾We can learn a lot from animals!🐈

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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Yes, especially the ones who never write self-help books. Animals don’t chase awakening, they live it.

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Kaja Sommer's avatar

So do you have a cat named Noodle?🐈

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Mike A's avatar

This reminds me of my recent trip to Greece. We had just visited the Holy Monastery of St. Stephen - Holy Meteora. And outside on one of the benches was a cat, in perfect meditation loaf pose with his eyes closed. I wish I could attach the picture! 🐈 😻

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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

That sounds perfect. Those monastery cats always seem to be two breaths ahead of enlightenment. They don’t strive for stillness, they simply are it.

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Dawn Klinge's avatar

Ha, yes! I needed this story. 😊

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RevKarla's avatar

May we all have a Noodle in our lives that wanders off to lick their booties! I sometimes find myself wondering if what I'm putting out in the world is valued. Then I realize I'm comparing it to the likes/shares of others, who do not have my perspective or experience. My Noodle moment.

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Celia Abbott's avatar

So true. You can learn much from living with cats including selective hearing and the best nap spots. But they should be also acknowledged for their purr which can be both meditative and healing. Their version of OM on replay loop.

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Kim Williams, M. Div.'s avatar

Now that’s a tale worth telling. It reminds me of the saying, “other people’s opinions of me are none of my business.”

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James's avatar

Nothing can teach you humility faster or more thoroughly than a cat.

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Beth Ann Kepple's avatar

Still laffing....😆

His mind hallucinated soup 🍲 🤣

...if Buddha ever mentioned sciatica 😅

....walks away to lick his butt 😂

Still laffing, all nite maybe, & wise lesson 😄🙏

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Dr Christine DiBlasio's avatar

I seriously love this.

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Claire Gosselin's avatar

Delightful!

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