three cats

[windwalker099]

Story of 3 cats....


story of cats, different stages of practice.

1. The black cat came forward and said: “ I am able to leap over a screen as high as seven feet; I know
how to squeeze myself through a tiny hole which allows a rat only. I am proficient in performing all kinds of acrobatics. I
am also clever at making the rats think that I am sound asleep, but I know how to strike them as soon as they come within
my reach. Even those running over the beam cannot escape me. It is really a shame that I had to retreat before that old rat
today.


2. The tiger cat now stepped forward and expressed his view thus: I have long trained myself in its cultivation and development. I am now in possession of the strongest spirit, which fills up heaven and earth. When I face an opponent, my overawing spirit is already on him, and victory is on my side even prior to actual combat. I have no conscious scheme as to the use of technical skill, but it comes out spontaneously according to change of situation. If the rat should be running over a beam, I would just gaze at him intensely with all my spiritual strength, and he is sure to fall by himself from the height and be my prisoner. But that old mysterious rat moved along without leaving any shadow. The reason is beyond me

3. The gray cat now advanced quietly and said: “. I have for a long time disciplined myself in this way: not to overawe the enemy, not to force a fight, but to assume a yielding and conciliatory attitude. When the enemy proves strong, I just look yielding and simply follow up his movements. I act like a curtain surrendering itself to the pressure of a stone thrown at it. Even a strong rat finds no means to fight me. But the one we had to deal with today has no parallel, it refused to submit to my psychical overpowering, and was not tempted by my manifestation of a yielding psyche. It was a most mysterious creature – the like of which I have never seen in my life.

 

[isshinryuronin]

Story of 3 cats....


story of cats, different stages of practice.

1. The black cat came forward and said: “ I am able to leap over a screen as high as seven feet; I know
how to squeeze myself through a tiny hole which allows a rat only. I am proficient in performing all kinds of acrobatics. I
am also clever at making the rats think that I am sound asleep, but I know how to strike them as soon as they come within
my reach. Even those running over the beam cannot escape me. It is really a shame that I had to retreat before that old rat
today.


2. The tiger cat now stepped forward and expressed his view thus: I have long trained myself in its cultivation and development. I am now in possession of the strongest spirit, which fills up heaven and earth. When I face an opponent, my overawing spirit is already on him, and victory is on my side even prior to actual combat. I have no conscious scheme as to the use of technical skill, but it comes out spontaneously according to change of situation. If the rat should be running over a beam, I would just gaze at him intensely with all my spiritual strength, and he is sure to fall by himself from the height and be my prisoner. But that old mysterious rat moved along without leaving any shadow. The reason is beyond me

3. The gray cat now advanced quietly and said: “. I have for a long time disciplined myself in this way: not to overawe the enemy, not to force a fight, but to assume a yielding and conciliatory attitude. When the enemy proves strong, I just look yielding and simply follow up his movements. I act like a curtain surrendering itself to the pressure of a stone thrown at it. Even a strong rat finds no means to fight me. But the one we had to deal with today has no parallel, it refused to submit to my psychical overpowering, and was not tempted by my manifestation of a yielding psyche. It was a most mysterious creature – the like of which I have never seen in my life.

This is why I'm a dog guy. Rather than engaging in introspection and self-evaluation, their brains reside in the empty Void - canine bliss.

 

[windwalker099]

This is why I'm a dog guy. Rather than engaging in introspection and self-evaluation, their brains reside in the empty Void - canine bliss.

Empty and void, might read the end of the story



"Some time ago there was in my neighborhood a cat who passed all her time in sleeping, showing no sign of spiritual animal power, and looking like a wooden image. People never saw her catch a single rat, but wherever she roamed about no rats ever dared to appear in her presence.

I once visited her and asked for the reason. She gave no answer. I repeatedmy query four times, but she remained silent. It was not that she was unwilling to answer, but in truth she did not knowhow to answer.
So we note that one who knows speaks not a word, while one who speaks knows not.

That old cat was forgetful not only of herself but all things about her, she was the one who realized divine
warriorship and killed not. I am not to be compared to her."

 

[windwalker099]

some of the concepts might be a little hard to resonate with depending
on ones practice.


"When even a tiny particle of sand gets into the eye, we cannot keep it open; the eye may be likened to the Mind which by nature is brightly illuminating and free from objects; but as soon as an object enters there its virtue is lost.

This is all I can explain here, for the master's task cannot go beyond transmitting technique and illustrating the reason for it.
It is yourself who realizes the truth of it.

as in " Experiential, Transcendence
Not based on belief , or religion. A product, not a goal or purpose"

The truth is self-attained, it is transmitted from mind to mind,
it is a special transmission outside the scriptural teaching."

 

[Buka]

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

Groucho Marx