The Cat's Business

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this lovely path, I walk in peace.

I was not feeling so peaceful on my walk with my big German Shepard, Mashie, today. We saw a tiger striped cat that was intently hovering over a sandy hole in the ground. Suddenly it pounced. My dog....thirteen years old and so not interested, could care less. I, on the other hand, immediately needed to intervene. "Psssssssssssssssst!" I hissed. "You leave that alone!", I shouted. The tiger cat looked up at me intently. Then went back to the attack. It pulled out some sort of mouse/squirrel...unfortunate soul and took it by the nap of the neck off to the bushes.

The words of Byron Katie rang in my ears..."There's three kinds of business. There is your business, there is God's business, and there is other people's business." Hmmm...Well in this case, it is the cat's business. How many times do I get myself in trouble by taking on the suffering of my interpretations of whatever I see around me? How many times do I judge what others are doing or not doing. In this case, that cat for sure should not harm another being. Except for, it is cat nature to do what I saw it do.

So a great question is...what is my business? Hmmmm. Well on that front I can report having given a great massage and booking two more clients. How would things go in my business if I spent a little less time in other people's?

Joy in Uncertainty

Looking for security in all of the wrong places the automatic momentum of thinking a traditional job is the same as living happily ever after...even though I have done that and was happy to make it out alive. There is an illusion in me that I must have certainty to be happy.

The empty space of the unknown, we have been trained since early years to fear. Dancing in the mystery, joy can be my partner. Even if I don't know the steps at this time the joy will lead.

There is no there over there, it is time to invite joy over here now.

Birth of a Right Livelihood Blogger

How many of us are now or have been in the past or will be in the future asking ourselves...what am I going to do for a living? In a time where every day has news and blues of the economy I found myself spending way too much time wondering that instead of actually pursuing my aspiration of protecting the earth and living from my heart. What if protecting the earth and living from my heart was what I did for a living?

This blog is dedicated to sharing my experiment in this aspiration and also to document stories of others who are living from their hearts and making a living rather than living from fear and survival making an ulcer.

Please join me in the adventure..