Observing a cat the other day I suddenly got the feeling that the cat was reading the local neighbourhood news. She was smelling with her head up, the air that had swept across the neighbourhood into the bathroom window. It was like she was finding out based on the different smells in the air what was and had been going on.
My conclusion here, is that animals connect their senses to the consciousness they have to know things about their locality. Kind of obvious right...
Observing the cat in the garden smelling and marking fixed features it was like she was making a map in her mind of the house and it's yard.
We can do the same using our hearing and sight. Memorise our whole house through several pictures and sit down in meditation or in a relaxed state and hear the different sounds around us. Then see in our mind's eye the the bird chirping on top of the pine tree at the back fence, the car rolling by on the street, the wind chimes sounding in the verandah, the palm tree fronds scrapping against the gutter...
Strangely, this brings a kind of peace and deeper relaxation as our awareness of our environment extends and expands. Making a very good start to a deeper meditation...
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