The guru's cat

Di Mello

When the guru sat down to worship each evening the ashram cat would get in the way and distract the worshippers. So he ordered that the cat be tied up during evening worship.

Long after the guru died, the cat continued to be tied during the evening worship. And when the cat eventually died, another cat was brought to the ashram so that it could be duly tied during evening worship.

Centuries later learned treatises were written by the guru’s disciples on the essential role of the tied cat in all properly conducted evening worship.

A story posted by Mark Spain on the Learning Organisation list.

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Philosophy in the Flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to western thought, reviewed for NLP World

I know nothing, well next to nothing, about “Philosophy� or “Linguistics� so why review a book written by a pair of eminent professors in those very subjects? Well, perhaps to keep harping on a theme that I have raised in reviews before – the bridging of NLP into the mainstream world.