Life teaches us lessons in myriad ways. I absorbed some important ones the other night at a gathering of a dozen conscious folk. But it wasn’t their chants that taught me; it was the hostess’s cat. She was a pretty long hair with lovely green eyes, whose grace and self-esteem imparted life lessons wordlessly. Amidst meditations, prayers and philosophy, the real buddha was teaching Feline Yoga. It was the regal bearing of little Kitty (that’s her unpretentious name) that drew the most devotion from one and all.
A lover of cats, I wasn’t surprised that Kitty and I hit it off instantly, and she spent much time with me, giving me the pleasure of giving her pleasure. Talk about self-esteem! Cats usually recognize admirers, and generally make a bee—or cat—line to them.
Kitty then would strut over to another pair of hands, stay for a while, and move on. Wherever she went, fingers, attached to praying hands, reached out to stroke her. Kitty’s presence in the here-and-now seemed to have greater appeal to us than our prayers to the other world.
She improved my understanding of self-esteem greatly. How? Let me count the ways.
1) Think highly enough of yourself so that others will be attracted to you.
2) Allow yourself to be pleasured, so that others will drop what they are doing to pleasure you in abundance.
3) Let others support and feed you.
4) Let others hold and touch you.
5) It’s innocent to be the center of attention.
6) Since curiosity thrills the cat, it thrills me, too.
7) The more playful I am, the more I’m loved and the more I prosper.
8) Most of all, when you’re happy, let the whole world know it and purr away.
I didn’t count letting others flush your litter box deposit into the toilet. I’m happy enough with my own plumbing.
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