A Test:
If you can live without caffeine or nicotine;
If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains;
If you can resist complaining;
If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you any time;
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment;
If you can ignore friends' limited educations and never correct them;
If you can treat the rich and poor alike;
If you can face the world without lies or deceit;
If you can conquer tension without medical help;
If you can relax without liquor;
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs;
If you can have no prejudice against creed, color, religion, gender, sexual preference, or politics;
Then you have almost reached the same level of spiritual development as your dog.
Friday, February 6, 2009
How Enlightened Are You?
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I guess you could say the samething about an amoeba...
ReplyDeleteWhile I can't live up to all of those (he typed as he continued to drink his third cup of coffee of the day), neither can at least some of the Schnauzers Bobroff.
ReplyDeleteAt least a couple of these hounds seem pretty frustrated when they don't get scratched on demand and (as you will see) will start pawing at you to get what they seek. That's fine from a 30lb mini, but less pleasant in a 75lb giant. Is that a lack of understanding or is that complaining?
Second, I don't know if this counts as deceit, but Murphy can be quite the trickster when trying to eat something outside that we don't want him to.
Third, there was one time that Murphy got into an Irish Coffee before anyone noticed. We caught him before he got past the creme, which may have been all he was after anyways, but then again, perhaps he was finally going to get his coffee (or whiskey) fix.
Finally, Oz now needs a Pepcid when I leave the house with luggage otherwise dinner reappears at some point down the road. Tension?
So, this is all to say, I suppose, that whichever dog was studied for this view of enlightenment was unlikely a schnauzer, as lovable as they are. : )
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ReplyDeleteLeave it to Ron to refute the spirituality of dogs. They don't complain, they remind. They aren't tricksters, they are problem-solvers. As for the Irish coffee, who can pass up whipped cream?
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