01 August 2005

Feline softness


Posting Assi's painting yesterday with the two young men struggling to learn to yield in their ridiculously long stances, both staring desperately at the cat for inspiration, I remembered something my teacher once told me: a sure way to learn softness-listening-yielding is to own and regularly handle an affectionate cat. Watching him with his cats is a lesson in itself. Like he says, "These animals are so pure, the only thing they know is connexion. I can only strive to be as good as they."

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