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I’m thinking (and I know I’m thinking it because I just status-updated it in Facebook!) that I should spend my weekend like a cat. In other words, any time I have the opportunity, I should go to sleep. And any time I need to wake up, I should wake up. Only to sleep again as soom as the opportunity arises.

I’m pretty burnt from work. And from an old dog who sometimes likes to spend whole nights walking around, her long nails clicking on the tile floor until she comes over and puts her grizzly bear head on my pillow to rouse me. And a young dog who rolls around in his crate, snoring and grunting and dream-barking. And from all of my own thinking, of course.

Dharma Overground, I love you, but what’s with all these words?! I’m sure I’ll be visiting more over the weekend, during the waking part of my cat-weekend. I’ll also be reading The Zen Doctrine of No Mind. Hui-neng was illiterate, as well as the Sixth Patriarch of Zen. As D.T. Suzuki notes: “Erudition always tends to abstraction and conceptualism, obscuring the light of intuition.” Still, I can’t seem to put the book down.

Okay, so a weekend of reading and thinking. If I don’t write or talk about any of it, does it make a sound?