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?