Dear Helcat:

I just looked at the desert metaphor in lotus happiness. com/ seven metaphors of the Lotus Sutra. According to this website, the first parable is the one you wrote about yesterday, the Parable of the Blazing house, and the fourth is the Parable of the Imaginary City- you wrote about it today.

“This idea chapter made me feel both happy and sad. Sad because I’m tired and have difficulty relaxing. But happy because I’m hopeful that I can learn” – unlearning is part of learning, unlearning what we erroneously believed was true.

Here is a quote from the website I mentioned here: “have no further doubts and let your hearts be filled with immense joy!” – what if this very moment, I have no doubt that I am a good person; no doubt that I am okay, that you are okay, and that we can help each other, (not hurt each other but help each other). What if this would be the basis of human interactions.

“On a side note, my cats love it when we meditate and always try to sleep on our laps. I read that cats sleep for a large part of the day. I wonder if they meditate?” – I read that they sleep because unlike animal who eat grass and such, just standing there and chewing grass that is not going anywhere, cats have to work hard hunting and chasing mice and such, so they need to rest a lot.

Do you know, by the way, how to coax a cat that is scared and will not move from under the bed in an apartment that needs to be evacuated (a current problem)?

anita