Daily Photo: I’m Not Cute, I’m Contemplating the Tao
I don’t get any respect because everyone thinks I’m so cute.
I may be cute, but cute is only skin deep. Beneath my admittedly perfectly cute exterior is a very different house panther than the one everyone thinks exists. In other words, the Jelly Bean that can be named is not the Jelly Bean that is.
Sometimes I sit perfectly still with my eyes closed or blinking slowly and my human says I look sleepy, but I am considering very deep ideas while I sit in contemplation in a box or near a window. I am truly meditating about the eternal satisfaction of the dinner to come, yet enjoying my current hunger as part of the dinner experience. And for a really deep subject I consider how deeply I have dug into the litterbox, and consider the perfection of what I’ve placed there.
I find great joy in simple activities, like chasing a short piece of heavy rope on the kitchen floor, which fills me with such joy I must race the full length of the room repeatedly and leap over the rope each time without touching it to enhance my enjoyment of actually, finally, landing on it and dancing with pure ecstasy. And then there is the exquisite joy of a meditative nap, and ignoring all efforts to distract me from my meditation my siblings, mother or human.
And indeed I am so full of joy that, when my brothers grow far too serious in a brotherly little wrestling match I never lose my sense of humor.
And my human always reaches to touch my white belly spot while I’m bathing it, calling it my “Buddha spot”, and we know it is good luck to rub the Buddha’s belly—except that even there, it is not the true Buddha whose belly you rub but the Buddha you anticipate.
There is much about me that no one recognizes but some day the truth will come to the light. For now I am in need of serious contemplation in the form of a meditative nap.
Other daily photos shared on this date
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2012: You Wash My Back and I’ll Wash Yours
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2011: Stacked Tortie Girls
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Ahhhhh…… deep thoughts to never be shared with the likes of humans.
Humans would never understand, Rumpydog.