- – – – by Kimbal Anderson Sensei
Any person who can have a chariot run by cats has got something happening, you know what I mean? Because, you know… if you know cats, the whole idea of them leading a chariot… woah!!! It’s a whole other level of understanding of things
And I love the metaphor of it.
So I’ve trained with ladies teaching who were truly herding cats, because, you know, the guys… particularly large, kind of forceful guys… felt they needed to simultaneously prove something while placating.
Exactly…
Is that respect?
But then on the other hand being brutal, and not treating you the same as I would treat anyone else sucks. And is not the nature of our art at all.
Now, part of the nature of our art is discovering things about yourself. Cherished things. Where you discover, ‘Huh! What the hell is wrong with me…’
I had a dear friend, someone I love beyond all measure today, tell me something about a realization they had concerning a homeless person. And I thought, “Now you’ve got it. Now you have the potential to change your whole life.”
Where you see something and you think: ‘I have been trained to categorize, label, all these things, without even seeing.’