I wasn’t a cat person before. For many years, I thought cats were boring and all looked the same. Well, things changed and I now have 3 cat animal companions. Two of them I adopted from a friend who found them wrapped in plastic thrown in the trash, and one I found myself while walking home from class one evening. Now, it’s very clear to me that they are safer with me than they were before. But they don’t know that. Their wild nature is still there. There are times I’d notice that three of them are gathered around the window, and I’ll see that they’re looking at a bird perched up on a ledge across. For them, staying in a 31-square condominium unit probably feels like prison. Almost every single time that I go home, the moment I open the door, the cats will try to escape. Sometimes one, sometimes two, and when I’m really really lucky, all three would like to run out the door at the same time. So that’s my routine. They would go to that corner and this corner of the hallway, I’d chase after them, and eventually I’d coax them into going back inside. There are times that I’m tired, or I need to go to the bathroom, and I want to get annoyed at these cats for delaying me. I want to get annoyed, but I end up just finding the whole thing amusing, because they are so clueless. And it helps that they’re super cute, so I can’t bring myself to be seriously annoyed at them.
The focus of the month is about souls and enlightenment and being one with all— and these are concepts that I feel are very hard to grasp. But this is what I think. Enlightenment, put simply, is to love everyone. Just as I love my cats. You see, other people around us will do what they want based on their perspective, based on what they think is going to make them happy. And loving them means that no matter what they do, regardless of how far they stray, we keep the door of our hearts open. We accept them in our hearts unconditionally. And through this acceptance, there is no desire to control, no need to use our power. One more thing about this loving everyone bit is that it includes ourselves. No matter what we do, regardless of how far we strayed, what mistakes we made, what embarrassing things we got up to, we accept ourselves completely, we keep the door of our heart open for ourselves. And when we can love all, then that is connecting to the soul, that is enlightenment.
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