Set it Free

Pick up your  cat. Hold it close to you. Embrace it to your heart. The cat begins to squirm. You tighten your hold, the cat wiggles and squirms. You reach up with the other arm to encircle the cat with both arms, the cat is now struggling. The cat does not like this, it is against its very nature to be held in place - to lose its freedom of movement.

You struggle to maintain a hold on the cat, the cat responds - your action results in the cats counteractions to gain its freedom. The cat turns its head and growls while using all four paws, with claws, to initiate a decisive action to gain freedom from the restrictive hold your applying. The struggling, squirming, wiggling along with biting and scratching does the job, you let go and the cat is off.

You treat your wounds. You return and sit down to contemplate this and to relax. The cat looks up from behind some obstacle that gives it comfort, safety and protection. It waits, you sit. You breathe deeply and relax into a meditative state and ignore the cat.

The cat comes out of hiding, walks up to your chair and begins to circle around you. You continue to be meditative and suddenly the cat leaps up into your lap and watches you intently. You remain meditative. The cat relaxes, settles down into a comfortable position and begins to enter a meditative state - typical cat thing.

Your reach up with your hand and stroke the cat along the head, down the back and out past the tail neither grasping, holding or embracing. You just stroke and the cat purrs.

Dogmatic adherence to a particular way bothers the cat. Your allowing the way to be free and go about its business with the Universe allows you to connect, enter a meditative state and become one with it. Sounds really good doesn't it.