Pillars of Existence
Kindness or cruelty...
I hear Granny as she's travelling the stairs, 'you've taken my cat away and I don't know why', she's crying. I took the cat back to the cat's protection league, where she came from last month. It came in this morning, it hadn't been here since sunday.
Granny was getting used to it not being around. She looked out of the window on getting up and said, 'well, she'll have to go back, she's not a loving cat.' I was downstairs opening the front door to let it in. Granny saw her as she headed up the stairs, 'hello darling, aren't you a beautiful puss-cat.' And promptly forgot all that had gone before, all the anguish, the worried phonecalls, the visits to the neighbours and the visits of the neighbours.
She knows now that it has gone. She's not sure where, and she has no clue why. I'm cruel because I have taken away her favourite, most loved possession. She wanted to give it another week to see how it went, 'oh darling, what nonsense, look how happy she is, she wouldn't just go off like that, she never has before.'
I hear Granny as she's travelling the stairs, 'you've taken my cat away and I don't know why', she's crying. I took the cat back to the cat's protection league, where she came from last month. It came in this morning, it hadn't been here since sunday.
Granny was getting used to it not being around. She looked out of the window on getting up and said, 'well, she'll have to go back, she's not a loving cat.' I was downstairs opening the front door to let it in. Granny saw her as she headed up the stairs, 'hello darling, aren't you a beautiful puss-cat.' And promptly forgot all that had gone before, all the anguish, the worried phonecalls, the visits to the neighbours and the visits of the neighbours.
She knows now that it has gone. She's not sure where, and she has no clue why. I'm cruel because I have taken away her favourite, most loved possession. She wanted to give it another week to see how it went, 'oh darling, what nonsense, look how happy she is, she wouldn't just go off like that, she never has before.'
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
If you realize that you have enough,
you are truly rich.
If you stay in the centre
and embrace death with your whole heart,
you will endure forever.
