The Dalai Lama’s Cat and the Power of Meow

As an owner of several cats, I was naturally drawn to The Dalai Lama’s Cat and the Power of Meow book. I was interested in how this title reflects spiritual growth. As a follow-up to The Art of Purring, this third title is a similarly feline inference to the well-known book by Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now, which is a self-help guide for day-to-day living and stresses the importance of living in the present moment and avoiding thoughts of the past or future.

In the Dalai Lama’s Cat and the Power of Meow, readers escape to the enchanting and exotic world of the Dalai Lama’s monastery in the Himalayas and take a peek inside the mind of a delightfully imperfect creature on the path to enlightenment. By accompanying HHC on her journey, you will learn new ways to relate to your own mind: slowing down, finding peace, and abiding in the boundless radiance and benevolence that is your own true nature.

Being ‘in the now’, or being aware is becoming a popular subject. Not a month seems to go by without the discovery of some new evidence attesting to the benefits of mindfulness. Throughout these pages, you can explore the power of this holistic and transformational practice. If you are among those who are open to this wisdom, then you need to look no further. You have found your portal to this knowledge, and it is called The Power of Meow!

The Power of Meow shares lots of humor, warmth, and life-enhancing wisdom. The lessons are light but profound. Focusing your attention on the present moment is powerful because now is the only time you can ever be happy. Neuroscientists call it ‘direct’ mode when we pay attention to what we are seeing, hearing and tasting, as opposed to ‘narrative’ mode when we pay attention to our inner thoughts. Both clinical research and personal experience show that when we are in

Focusing your attention on the present moment is powerful because now is the only time you can ever be happy. Neuroscientists call it ‘direct’ mode when we pay attention to what we are seeing, hearing and tasting, as opposed to ‘narrative’ mode when we pay attention to our inner thoughts. Both clinical research and personal experience show that when we are in a direct mode we are far more likely to be happy.

We can learn to practice mindfulness in relation to many different things. One of the most life-changing is mindfulness of thoughts. Learning to observe our thoughts, rather than become automatically absorbed by them, gives us a tremendous power. We come to see our thoughts merely as thoughts, not as facts or truths. We get better at letting go of them. We stop beating ourselves up about those decisions we made or believing that some incident that happened to us in childhood must permanently curse our life. We are able to be more self-accepting. Instead of being victims of our thoughts, we become their observers.

Only by direct experience can we know the true nature of our own mind. Practicing mindfulness, we discover that our thoughts are not the only manifestations of consciousness. Like waves emerging from the surface of the mind, when we abide in our oceanic nature we find it to be boundless, lucid, tranquil and benevolent. We have come home.