Monday, February 27, 2006Take it.I missed something completely with my post yesterday, in which I was talking about this trick we're teaching Sam the Dog -- how to leave something bad on the ground, how to not ingest everything he comes across. The way I'm supposed to train him to do this is to put a treat under my hand on the ground and say Leave It over and over while he goes crazy trying to get at it. The moment he spaces out and stops paying attention, I uncover the treat and say Take It! So he learns to detach in order to get what he wants.The leaving it is what intrigued me. But the taking it is far more challenging. Because after the detachment there does come the treat. And you, the Cosmic Puppy, get to take it. It's not lessened because you detached. It's YOURS... because you detached. You now own this treat. It now comes to you. You can now enjoy it fully. So it's not JUST about the zen detachment from the longing. It's ALSO about the zen ownership of what is yours. So if there's love in your life, take it. If there's abundance in your life, enjoy it. If there's peace in your life, live in it. If there's goodness in your life, accept it. The treats are there. The treats are available. The point is to not ingest poison. The point is to make the having more sweet, and the desire less potent. # posted by Katherine Doughtie Nolan @ 9:56 AM  
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