And I see that Charlie has joined us too. And when we were here last year, at some point, Sophia said she wanted a cat like Charlie. So we ordered, we got a cat. It's actually a... In Crestone, about two-thirds of our cats become coyotes. This is not a shamanic ritual. Simply the mountain lions and the coyotes catch and eat the cats. So I sort of hunted for what would be a tough cat, you know. I put into Google tough cat. And up came an American bobtail.

[01:02]

A bobtail is that little stump of a tail. It's called an American bobtail. It's so tough, they thought it was related to a bobcat. And... but they did DNA testing and it's not. Not our cat, you know, they... But it turns out it's descended from a junkyard cat in an Indian reservation in the 1950s. Now it's recognized as a kind of breed, but it's only since the 50s or 60s. But the males get to be 20 pounds.

[02:30]

which is, you know, a big cat. And the females are not as big, but they can get to be about 16 pounds. So I don't know. So I talked to this lady through the computer, you know, in Los Angeles. And she said, Marie-Louise, I want a female that no one wants. So I asked her, do you have a female that can't be shown and stuff like that? She said, I have a beautiful one. Her brother was the... first in the breed last year, but she has, her older brother, but she has a wrong kind of bobtail. And I said, well, you're in Los Angeles, how do I get it?

[03:38]

She said, well, I'm driving to show her brother in Albuquerque. So Mark's family is from Albuquerque, so he went to visit his family and he got the cat. So when we first arrived, only a few days later, we brought this little kitten who's already only a month or so old, but already pretty big. And we gave it to Sophia and She was really thrilled. This is going to be my cat. And I said, what should we name it? She said, Charlie. LAUGHTER So I get confused with my pronouns anyway, so I call her Charlie girl.

[04:51]

And she's a real hunter. I mean, she really... I let her out of the bathroom in the morning and she's... So now we have to figure out how she's taken care of while we're back here. Now, we don't have much time because dinner is soon, but we have time for one report. Andreas? laughter laughter laughter We noticed that the word noticing we didn't notice so much.

[05:56]

So we had once this quality of an active noticing that I want to notice my breathing, my breath. The other is, I sit down, I want to notice my breath, but this disappears, and suddenly I notice that I didn't put attention to my breath afterwards. It's a sort of passive noticing. Then we had the idea that we said, yes, maybe I notice it now, maybe notice it punctually and wake me up.

[07:14]

And that if I notice, notice, notice and I can always bring it closer and closer, There is a form of noticing that is sort of pointed, punctual, and from point to point, and when we get these points closer and closer together, it sort of develops into a direction of more mindfulness. Perhaps we could also use another term and say it steps into consciousness, it gets conscious. Now, is this your experience, or you're reporting a general feeling from the group?

[08:20]

Something is mine, but I tried to get together that from a group, so we developed together into that direction. Oh, okay. And now you're trying to do it to us. Okay. Thank you very much.

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