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2006-10-28 11:51 PM | Posted by John Gillespie | Permanent Link | Life, Meditation

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Who's a good boy?

Much as I hate to be chasing the bumper of a fast moving band wagon, two recent articles by writers of extraordinary ability have forced pen to doggy paw, in an under-qualified, smallest dog on the block imitation, rather than emulation, of their superlative-silencing awe.

You once wouldn't have seen me writing perhaps more than a sentence on the topic of dogs, and that sentence would have probably been in tone indifferent and somewhat aloof. But a funny thing happened when I entered the spiritual life—I turned from a "cat person" to a "dog person" with devotion.

I knew a person once who insisted that you could divide all people into these two categories—wearers of either canine or feline coloured fur. This person was most definitely of the dog persuasion, and took some satisfaction in pronouncing, after I declared my like of cats, and with something of a knowing smirk, that yes, they had deduced that already. They just missed a flying claw...

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2006-10-29 06:06 AM | Posted by John Gillespie | /Members/john_gillespie

Thanks for the comment Sumangali.

I hope I made the clear point that, despite the misfortune of never owning a dog, I have, in course of being a student of Sri Chinmoy, turned head over heals, and chased my own tail, from a cat into a dog person. And I don't think I could go back.

Aside from the affectionate, playful type of cat—which is usually actually a kitten—I really can no longer stand the more commonplace cat qualities of selfishness and suspicion, and wonder idly if my childhood self intuitively recognised this in it's boisterous chasing and tormenting of our first cat. Probably a little far fetched!

In a spiritual sense, the very qualities I now dislike in cats are the qualities I seek to transform in self; the qualities of dogs, the attributes I seek to gain.

On a lighter note: Everyone should try the "Canine Algorithimic Transfer System" to see what kind of dog they are.

(I'm a Braque D'Auvergne (Auvergne Setter), a French descendent of the Spanish Pointer)

2006-10-29 05:31 AM | Posted by Sumangali Morhall | /Members/sumangali

I'm very much enjoying this canine theme. I'm a little unnerved by the feline references - I too used to have cats when I was a lot younger, but my childlike doting was rebuffed by their suspicion and independence once too often. As far as I'm concerned dogs are disillusion-proof. However disgusting and disobedient they can be, their devotion and loyalty are always inspirational. They so often seem to display the purest and most heartfelt - almost human - feelings and expressions.

Sri Chinmoy spoke recently about people being either cat-lovers of dog-lovers, and that he himself falls into the latter category. If you search the word "dog" on Sri Chinmoy Library, you get 218 results. Here's one of them, which I found very funny:

http://www.srichinmoylibrary.com/sri-chinmoy-world-experience/part5/1.html

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