THE WHITE CAT VISITS AGAIN!

It's Saturday in Munich, a beautiful brisk, overcast morning, the air so fresh! As I sit here at the opened window at my laptop.

Our plans for yesterday changed to following our hearts desire moment to moment. In the afternoon, I was feeling agitated and restless. Anything I thought of doing wasn't appealing to me...going to Salzburg by train, just didn't appeal to me, nor did going anywhere else. All I could think of was...I wanted to be with people, like the Gnostics...I imagined them in the Jewel valley of Spain, spending their hours together in the gardens nurturing the plants, and sitting around the big table by candlelight, offering blessings and gratitude, as darkness enfolds them in the valley. Or I wanted to be with the people who dance paneurythmy,,,dancing in circles, expressing their full merging with mother nature, with being harmonious. I could feel the need just to turn within and be in gratitude.

Earlier in the day, Leon found the table tennis paddles and ball for us to play ping-pong in the park. And Robin said, "do you want to play ping-pong?" And I said, "Yes! as soon as I finish chanting!" Wow, it felt good to hear the mention of "ping-pong".

So at 5pm, I chanted the Guru Gita. It's my usual morning chant. It's an ancient Sanskrit textual chant and I chant with a recording. The best way to describe to you what this chant does for me is to describe this familiar scenario. Do you have a printer? After you put in a new ink cartridge, remember how you get instructions printed out on realigning your printer? And there's a page of rainbow colored bars that you put on the glass, so the printer has a fixed position for realignment?

So that's what the Guru Gita does for me. It's a song about the divine. It's a song about the balancing of our feminine and masculine. The 'guru' is the combined energies within us. That energy is the true love within us. This is my simple explanation. The Shree Guru Gita is a very sacred chant. It's chanted in a language which actually preceeds the languages of thought. These sacred syllables came through ancient practioners without even thinking. The sounds just 'dropped in'. And these combination of sound vibrations awaken the sound vibrations inside of us, so we literally become one. If you want the "Shree Guru Gita" CD, go to http://www.bookstore.siddhayoga.org, and select 'multimedia', then 'audio', then 'swadhaya'.
You will also want the book, 'The Nectar of Chanting', so you can follow the text.

So in the evening Robin and I jumped across to the Althener Platz park and played ping-pong. We were just batting around and suddenly I realized...I bet our game gets more fun if we actually keep score and so we did. Hmmm, in the past this is where I get upset over the scoring and Im losing, as with playing Scrabble with my Dad. Well, we played anyway and I turned into a 'Meg Ryan', goofy as ever! Before I'd serve I'd do this loose, goofy, Kung Fu movement before pulling my paddle into serving position.

Robin had her fun, too. She said something like, this is my chance to let out all the steam and let my frustration feelings rip. So we were the loudest people in the park. Three little boys, between ages 3-5, sat in a row on the neighboring table to watch us play. They were being our cheering squad. I would tell them the score in German and then ask them what was the next number.

We played five rounds! We're a good match for each other!

It was 8:30 in the evening and we were hungy and chose to walk to dinner somewhere, we didn't know where. I knew one place and as we passed we saw it was closed. So I had my back pocket solution...go find some teenagers/or young adults and ask them, and sure enough we asked two young women, dressed like young goddesses, waiting for the tram. And they guided us to an Italian restaurant.

This Italian restaurant was the most delightful place we could have dreamed of. A cozy outdoor garden filled with happy couples and families and dogs. Robin and I notice how happy all of the dogs are, whenever we see them in Munich. And the dogs get to go everywhere that the people go. And we notice that we see so many men and women with such gentle faces. And we know they are happy because summer is here and they can be outside in the sunshine and warmth...so many people tell us that.

One more walk before going inside,,,and we return to the park:Athener Platz. We are in total darkness walking the path that borders the playing field. I again come to my favorite tree and raise my arms to thank the divine for LIFE! And as we walk around, I begin exclaiming my thanks to Munich and all that she provides, and to Gina, her family and friends. And as I do that the Magic Kitty pops out of the darkness!
Again she jumps to us! and then lingers, for us to enjoy her. Robin picks her up and the magic kitty leans over to lick my face.

We play with her for a while and continue walking, noticing that she is jumping from bench to tree, ripping across the lawn, and then she is out of sight. We return to that same spot as we circle the park again, and she is not there in physical form.

She came to give the message, the acknowlegement. She got her job done and we say she went on to her next mission.

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