Cats also express the Taoist idea of effortless effort. They are pure grace and beauty and they manage to express this whether awake or asleep. My cats also have a knack for expressing the yin and yang of life in their reposing poses.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
The Tao of Cats
The Tao Te Ching opens with the insight that the Tao that can be known is not the Tao. Cats are like the Tao in this way. I surmise that the cat who can be known is not a cat.
Cats also express the Taoist idea of effortless effort. They are pure grace and beauty and they manage to express this whether awake or asleep. My cats also have a knack for expressing the yin and yang of life in their reposing poses.
Cats also express the Taoist idea of effortless effort. They are pure grace and beauty and they manage to express this whether awake or asleep. My cats also have a knack for expressing the yin and yang of life in their reposing poses.
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It's funny how cats are the whole package. They are the personification of elegance--and then they act like slapstick comedians, and crack you up with their shenanigans...aw, kee-kats...
ReplyDeleteThis is why Greta and I miss kitty luvin. They are death-dealing predators who sleep 17 hours a day and manage to look graceful and haughty, when they're not snuggling or being utterly ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteTanya, Greta would probably love my big boys. Miss Rosie is alike a very unintelligent version of Chelsea and tends to smack any dog or boy cat (i.e. poor Wasabi) who gets too familiar. But my boys are loves - especially the Maine Coons.
ReplyDeleteWith regard to slapstick - you should see Sneakers and Wasabi. Wasabi's bigger and tends to slide into things and then, of course, totally act like he meant to do that all along.