Teachers Everywhere + Hyper Awareness

The Daily Calm today was all about finding Teachers in everything. This sit puts you in a spot of awareness where you can recognize teachings from sources which you wouldn’t typically think was a teacher. For example, a cat comes in and sits on your lap while you are trying to practice. You take it off your lap and put it outside the room. The cat then comes back and sits on your lap and you remove it again. You go back and forth like this for a half an hour with you getting more and more frustrated with the cat. Finally you flex your equanimity and accept the cat as is. The cat comes back and sits on your lap and you accept it. It sits for 20 seconds and gets up and walks away. Lessons can come from anywhere. The Daily Trip today was working on your ability to have hyper awareness of the moment. This skill that needs to be practices is essential to your practicing tool kit.