Choosing to Be

Choosing to Be: Lessons in Living from a Feline Zen Master: Kat Tansey: Books ISBN: 1935278142 ISBN-13: 9781935278146

I loved this book! It is going into my “feel-good’ reread collection. The author Kat Tansey finds herself in a suicidal depression and unable to find her way out. One day she reads The Tibetan Book On Living and Dying. She then decides to try and find the “Buddha” mind.

This book is classified under nonfiction only because she transcribes conversation with her Maine Coon cat Poohbear. Otherwise it is a true story of how she came into her mediation practice. She explains how over the course of a year she progresses from being suicidal to finding joy. It goes in detail into her year long journey.

I liked the way to interweaves conversations with her Main Coon cat into the story. She has conversations with him as if he is a real person.Poohbear takes on the role of Zen master delightfully.