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The BLACK CAT GURU: Lessons in Presence, Peace, and the Art of Just Being
Paperback
Series: The Black Cat Guru, Book 1
Metaphysical GeneralGeneral Alternative HealthPets: Cats
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 20 2026
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.20 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
You already know how to do more. This is a small book about doing less.
Rani is a rescued black cat with golden-green eyes and a nicked left ear. She has never hurried, never proved herself, never once apologized for taking up the warm part of the afternoon. People were taught to fear cats like her. She would rather teach you to be still.
Rani never had that problem.
The Black Cat Guru is a small book of twelve lessons in the art of just being - on stillness, surrender, trust, joy, vulnerability, and the kind of attention we have almost forgotten how to give. Each lesson pairs a photograph of Rani with a value drawn not from Zen but from the yogic wisdom of India, and a page left open for you.
Why this book, and not the others beside it? Most books about presence ask you to add a practice, a routine, a discipline. This one asks you to release - the hurry, the noise, the low hum of needing to be further along than you are. What remains is the life you were already living, finally noticed.
It is for you if you have been moving fast for a long time and would like, for a moment, to stop.
It is not a productivity system. It is not a self-improvement plan. It asks nothing of you but your attention.
Sit down. Let her show you.
Book Two, The Black Cat Guru - Workplace Edition, returns you to the leader you were before the organization trained it out of you.
Geeta Padbidri holds a BS and MS in Pharmacy and an Executive MBA. She writes on presence, attention, and the quiet intelligence of everyday life. Published by 1616 Charter.
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