Sugar Pie’s
Seven Great Teachings

~ The Fifth Great Teaching ~

GROWING UP

Mom was really fascinated with watching me grow up. Most people don’t think much about what’s really going on when their kids grow up (cats, dogs, or humans, etc.), but it intrigued my Mom. (Even though she’s a musician, she’s a closet scientist).

She knew that Beings went through a bunch of growth phases, but by watching me she could really see it working. I was very pleased to be able to demonstrate this for her. (My growth phases happened very fast, me being a small Being and all.)

One day something I couldn’t do I could do perfectly well the next day. Like walking around without tripping all over myself. Or, one day I’d be meowing for Mom to lift me into her lap and the next day I’d be leaping into her lap on my own.

In the beginning these spurts were really short, only a day or two, then they grew into days, then weeks and finally into months as I got bigger and bigger.

Mom called BV up on the telephone and talked to her about this (BV really is a scientist) and BV said this was true for all Beings, only the number and length of the phases were different and it had to do with the development of the brain.

Now, here’s where it gets really interesting, and I want to explain it so everyone gets it. (You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or even a closet scientist to catch on to this one). See, whatever goes into the ole hopper during the phases of the brain’s development tends to stick.

On the flip side, if you try to make a little cat (dog, or a little kid) learn to do something that their brain is not ready to learn, you can create a sense of failure. In humans this can be a real bummer (because of how complicated their minds get and all) and set up the kid for failure and feeling worthless when he gets big.

My Mom was always aware of what I was able to do and not able to do, so I grew up feeling real good about myself (as you may have noticed) and about what I could do and what I could have — like JOY (and a really good time).

I rode in the truck through a whole bunch of growth spurts, so I always liked riding in the truck, whereas most cats don’t like to ride in anything. (They don’t know what they’re missing.) Why, I even liked to ride in the shopping carts at PetCo and Petsmart and anywhere else they’d let me in. I’d ride in anything that moved, like Mom’s office chair that had wheels on it.

Mom dressed me up in a harness when I was really little, so having a harness on was just normal to me. My harness was very special. It had a little gold dangling thing shaped like a cat — it wasn’t as good looking as me, though, but it was gold and shiny and super cool. It had Mom’s 800 number on it so if I got lost anyone could call her and tell her where I was. (I wore it whenever we went out of the house.)

A big part of how this works is that when these kinds of things (things like harnesses, trucks, sweetness, kindness, love, fearlessness, and, of course, getting what you want) pass consistently through more than one growth phase, they stick. See, if you grow up getting the good things that you want, you learn to look for good things, and if you look for good things, you always seem to get good things.

Human parents always say they want their kids to grow up to be happy. But to be really happy, Beings must know with certainty that good and happy things will come to them — like sweetness, kindness, love and fearlessness. (If you think you’ve heard the last of these words, get over it).

A lot of humans don’t believe this, but it’s true. They think this would be “spoiling” their kids. This is not true. And I’m the perfect example. I was treated with sweetness, kindness, and love, and I got everything good I wanted and I was a sweet, kind, loving and fearless dude! It’s a no brainer.

I lived in a constant state of JOY. I liked everybody (even humans and dogs), and everybody liked me. I had a really rockin’ life.

Thank you Mom. I really mean that.

You were MY JOY, Sugar. We shared that JOY. It can’t get much better than that. So I thank you, Sugar Pie.

My pleasure, Mom.

Sugar Pie, you use the term “good things” a lot. I think people will want to know exactly what you mean by the word “good.”

Well, anything that is “good” is just “the real smart stuff” being Itself, doing Its thing. The gist of this is the real key to living in JOY.

You could say that everything in the world is made out of JOY because JOY is what “the really smart stuff” is actually like. JOY is It’s essential nature. Anything else is just a distortion of some kind, usually at the hands of humans because of their minds.

Humans have complicated minds because they have really easy access to their “power of choice” because they don’t have many instincts. (Mom says a lot of humans exercise this power without realizing it and that this is often the reason for the distortions)