Language skills, part 2

A friend directed me to a video clip of a secretly bilingual cat. Well, this covert cat skill comes as no surprise, and is in fact something I have long suspected in a creature that can turn invisible at will...

...and, after you've become frantic with worry, reappear with utter insouciance (I'm talking about you, Mrs. Peel).

Decades ago, Donovan Leitch sang "first there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is." His lyric was inspired by the following passage by Quinyuan Weixin:

Before I had studied Chan [zen] for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and rivers as rivers. When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and rivers are not rivers. But now that I have got its very substance I am at rest. For it's just that I see mountains once again as mountains, and rivers once again as rivers.

One has to practice meditation for quite a long while in order to attain the state of seeing what is/is not/is. Change the lyric from mountain to feline, though, and the show is up and running several times a day.

So, to summarize: Woof! Poof! Gone! ... oh, hi. Miss me?

Meow.