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RITUAL CAT
When the Zen spiritual teacher and his disciples began their evening meditation, the cat who lived in the monastery made such noise that it distracted them. So the teacher ordered that the cat be tied up during the evening practice. Years later, when the teacher died, the cat continued to be tied up during the meditation session. And when the cat eventually died, another cat was brought to the monastery and tied up.
Centuries later, learned descendants of the spiritual teacher wrote scholarly treatises about the religious significance of tying up a cat for meditation practice.
This parable beautifully depicts how we become slaves of absurd habitual conditioning and superstitions and follow so many practices blindly without even trying to understand why they were started in first place !! When asked, mind justifies its importance by weaving its own story complicating and mystifying facts which never had any significance at all in first place !!
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Text and image source: Andrew Ezeudegbe https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid01TYiJ7nGzwX9kAkug8Ed81eT3cqJpAt9SA6S55iGSubdY99L8cAbykCdTDNQBUiPl&id=100003959785265&mibextid=Nif5oz
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