Lamas Cat

Featuring a delightful cast of characters and timeless Buddhist wisdom, and with His Holiness' compassion pervading every chapter, The Dalai Lama's Cat is simply enchanting. Not so much fly-on-the-wall as cat-on-the-sill, this is the warmhearted tale of a small kitten rescued from the slums of New Delhi who finds herself in a beautiful sanctuary with sweeping views of the snowcapped Himalayas.

In a chance encounter with India's Top Ten Social Influencers, the Dalai Lama is asked to how to use the 'law of attraction' to manifest abundance. He points out that material wellbeing was never the goal of such practices as he begins to explain their true purpose. It is a purpose that His Holiness's Cat goes on to explore with her usual warm-hearted and wonky-legged aplomb. Is the world much more a projection of our mind than we suspect? Can a few precious insights transform our reality?

"‘Oh! How adorable! I didn’t know you had a cat!’ she exclaimed. I am always surprised how many people make this observation. Why should His Holiness not have a cat?‘ If only she could speak,’ continued the actress. ‘I’m sure she’d have such wisdom to share. ’And so the seed...

What makes you purr? Of all the questions in the world, this is the most important. It is also the great leveler. Because no matter whether you are a playful kitten or a sedentary senior, a scrawny alley Tom or a sleek-coated uptown girl, whatever your circumstances, you just want to be happy...

"If you ever doubted that your feline companion has her own inner life, just watch what happens when she falls asleep, and loses conscious control of her physical being . . . a twitching of limbs, a quivering of the jaw, sometimes, perhaps, a snuffling noise or a meow.. . . Cats may indeed be...

Dalai Lama îi atribuie simpaticei sale feline de companie sarcina de a cerceta Arta de a Toarce. Fie că e vorba de perspectiva comică obţinută în urma vizitei unui profesor de psihologie de la grupul universitar Ivy League, de cercetările extraordinare ale unui biolog de renume mondial sau de revelaţiile importante ale unui yoghin mistic, Pisica Sfinţiei Sale descoperă o mare de înţelepciune în ceea ce priveşte tema fericirii.

În acest episod al seriei Pisica lui Dalai Lama, Pisica Sfinţiei Sale („PSS”) are o misiune: să gândească mai puţin, să experimenteze mai mult, să trăiască momentul prezent. În scurt timp, află care este sintagma potrivită pentru toate acestea‒a fi mindful (pe deplin conştient de clipa prezentă) sau un concept mai bine cunoscut de ea ca puterea lui miau. Ceea ce urmează este o călătorie de descoperire a adevăratei sale naturi, de înţelegere profundă a propriei minţi şi de experimentare a celei mai mari bucurii existenţiale‒trăirea AICI şi ACUM.