My best friend's teachings

By Adrian Salama

Can we learn from our pets? The answer is in this book

[My best friend's teachings]

Everything a child can learn from his pet is in this book. It is a book that parents can read to their children and in that way create values and learning that will give them a better life as well as increase their emotional intelligence

Foreword (written in the book)

In truth, it is a book, creatively and intelligently written by Adrian who, despite his young age (or rather, thanks to his youth), gives us daily experiences combined with profound wisdom thanks to his inexhaustible scientific curiosity and attitudes of help to others. 

It is a book to be read and reread many times since in each rereading new elements appear that provide us with peace and love in our daily life. 

Few books can be read today with the fruitfulness with which I enjoyed reading them. The author takes us by the hand in a graceful, light, inviting and simple prose to be more and more successful in our lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Jan 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9781071528136

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My best friend's teachings

Adrian Salama

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Translated by Jose Alfonzo Farias 

My best friend's teachings

Written By Adrian Salama

Copyright © 2020 Adrian Salama

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Distributed by Babelcube, Inc.

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Translated by Jose Alfonzo Farias

Edited by Liliana Acosta

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My best friends teachings

A hairy story...

Table of Content

Prologue 4

Introduction 6

Chapter 1 Perfect relationship 7

Chapter 2 Watching the wolf in us 9

Chapter 3 My female best friend’s teachings 11

She taught me to be patient 11

She taught me to be tolerant 12

She taught me nature 14

She taught me the perfect present 15

She taught me to stretch 18

She taught me to drink water 20

She taught me to rest 22

She taught me to exercise 25

She taught me to share 26

She taught me to breathe 28

She taught me to relax 29

She taught me to enjoy the road and not the destination 32

She taught me to be serene and at peace 34

She taught me to snoop around 36

She taught me the value of a silent company 38

She taught me to be sweet 40

She taught me to accept myself as I am 43

She taught me to respect and honor myself 45

She taught me to forget the anger 48

She taught me to think outside the box 50

She taught me to pay more attention to non-verbal language 52

She taught me to respect my basic needs 56

She taught me how to walk around 58

She taught me to look for what I want 60

She taught me that nothing lasts forever 61

She taught me the meaning of truth and real love 65

She taught me how to always have energy and to fight when you can't anymore 70

She taught me to be alone and to face the fear 72

She taught me not to worry 76

She taught me not to get attached 78

She taught me to trust the wisdom of my body 80

She taught me how to be ordained 82

Chapter 4 Enlightenment through the nature of my friend 83

Chapter 5 Thank you 87

Prologue

Once God gave me a wonderful chest and asked me to open it slowly, a little bit every year and that I would find something wonderful. My son Adrian was born, and I experienced extraordinary moments with him, every time I opened the chest another surprise appeared. The last one is to have received from him the present work of that precious chest which I had the honor to write a prologue.

In truth, it is a book, creatively and intelligently written by Adrian who, despite his young age (or rather, thanks to his youth), gives us daily experiences combined with profound wisdom thanks to his inexhaustible scientific curiosity and attitudes of help to others.

It is a book to be read and reread many times since in each rereading new elements appear that provide us with peace and love in our daily life.

Few books can be read today with the enjoyment that I enjoyed reading them. The author takes us by the hand in a graceful, light, inviting and simple prose to be more and more successful in our lives.

Thank you, Adrian, for your work and I continue to marvel at the experiences you allow to continue coming out of your chest. I am proud of you.

Hector Salama Penhos

Adrian,

Maybe the number of pages in your book is twice your age. However, what illuminates the path is the light of experience and this has nothing to do with the years lived but with the awareness of living in presence.

There is nothing more magical than life itself.

An instant in presence condenses the absolute complexity of the Absolute

in an eternal moment of love.

With the magic of your words and the eternal play inside and outside the text with life itself you give, between pages, moments of absolute presence, you give yourself to the text so that the reader gives himself up and returns home, safe, on that path already illuminated with the light of his own experience.

It is an honor for me to write about this book and, of course, its author. And I say of its author because I am proud to know him and to see him reflected between lines, to see the reflection of his light, of his laughter, of his moments of ecstasy and stillness, of his passion, of his tenderness and intensity.

In this book, Adrian converts the ordinary into the extraordinary, since, from his observations and total presence in every moment of everyday, ordinary life, he has the humble and majestic capacity to see anything, any being, any situation as an extraordinary teacher and in doing so, he opens himself up to receive and share his great learning, which we already read as great teachings.

In this book the author takes us to the encounter of our own experiences, of our own reflection and this is the way home, which is already illuminated in the light of our own experience.

Yessica Nuria Saburit

Introduction

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I want to mention that not everything I describe here about my dog is unique to her and that not only is she great. Any animal can teach us something, and I stress, any animal. The difference between them and my dog is that I have observed her more myself, and so I reserve the right to write a book.

It all started when one day I was looking at Chiquita and suddenly, BAM! I realized how wonderful she was. This simple action was something incredible for me, as if suddenly my eyes had opened to another reality. Every movement I made was a miraculous act, and the marvelous thing did not stop there; everything was incredible to me: my movements, my physiological activities, every person who passed by me, and acts so simple and given to everyday life, such as watching the sun rise and the moon set. From then on, I began to grow spiritually and mentally as never before in my 23 years of life.

Chapter 1

Perfect relationship

Most of my life, I think I've lived with dogs. I remember that my first encounter was with the one my father had before meeting my mother. This dog was a Kish Hound, which is like a Chow Chow, but with gray hair. My parents tell me that this dog looked after me as if I were his puppy, and even though I, being an unconscious baby, sometimes treated him a little roughly, he let me do anything to him, despite having a strong temperament.

Then we had a German shepherd, who more than a shepherd was a strange mixture. My mother, when she saw him wounded in a boarding house, wanted to have him and cured him. This dog was called Sony, and he came to replace my father's Kish Hound who, in a short time, and after much illness, died.

Sony was a perfect friend to the family, and I think he felt the same way. I remember him very much; I remember that he defended me once from a dog that wanted to attack me. Sony got off the leash and managed to stop him. I don't even want to tell you how that other dog did, but it wasn't good. After that, we had many more dogs (which I keep in my heart), each one with its own story, until my current dog arrived, known by all as Chiquita[1].

From so much living with dogs, a question arose in me that, until I had seen a program on television about dogs, I was able to decipher. My doubt was: why do these canines, being that they come from wolves, love us humans so much? Well, after watching the program and reading some books about dogs, I found out the following

A long time ago, when man still lived in the caves, he had to do many things to keep himself safe and without hunger. Thus, he discovered the fire with which he kept the animals away and the tastiest food. The wolves, who constantly ate the leftovers left by the human beings, began to smell the cooked meat and as their smell is perfect, they began to approach the colonies.

Little by little, man accepted the wolf and the wolf accepted man. Man, because the wolf kept him safe and protected, and the wolf because man kept him hungry and spoiled.

It is funny to see that it seems that it was the wolf that tamed the man and not the other way around. What is true is that the two found a reason to become friends and lifelong companions. After all this comedy, human beings began to do genetic quirks with wolves and created dogs, which for over a million years have been our best friends[2].

They have been our friends so much, that much of what we can do today is thanks to them. At first, they helped in the hunts, then they took us from one place to another and now thanks to their magnificent sense of smell, they help us to detect explosives, narcotics, people and many other things.

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The adaptation

There's something very interesting about how we humans and dogs recognize family:

If I told them today that we are relatives of canines, they would say I was crazy, and it would be true. But in the mind of a well-cared for puppy, the human being is part of its family, its pack, so to speak.

That's why our canine friends love us so passionately and know how we feel. To them and to some of us, we are family.

The dog looks at us as if we were his mother, father and/or brother. Sometimes, during his breeding, it is difficult to understand his behavior and many times people think that their pet has gone crazy when he starts reacting in an unusual way. I once heard from a friend who had crashed his car and completely destroyed it, that his mom told him that before she knew what was going on, his dog, a sheepherder, was running around the house like crazy, asking to get out; it was scratching at the door anxiously and my friend's mom, instead of calming it down, decided to lock it in. The dog howled for about three hours before the mother knew her son was in a hospital.

That's how much our friends love us. They can sense what is happening, they can feel what is happening to us, and yet there are people who cannot believe that all this is true.

Whether it is true or not, I still believe that animals have an innate capacity to love, as well as a much better developed sixth sense than I do. That's why I've learned to read my dog. If she lies down on her back, it's going to rain, if she gets very restless, she wants to go out, and if she growls at me when I'm asleep, she wants to climb into bed. It's very simple to do this, all you need is attention and a lot of observation. But the reward is always greater than the time invested.

Chapter 2

Watching the wolf in us

Now that it is clearer what relationship we have with our friends and how they see us, we can move on to the second part of the book: How do we know the wolf in all of us?

When I refer to the wolf that we all carry within us, I am referring to the strong and natural instinct that all human beings have, but most of the time we ignore it completely because we are more human, when in reality we are becoming more machines and less what we are: beings of nature that can create and think in much more complex ways than the rest of the animals.

If we manage to awaken or make this instinct in us conscious, there will come a time when we will be so natural and intelligent that we will achieve a state of happiness that very few have ever known.

Knowing the wolf within us doesn't mean that we have to mark territory, kill to eat or do things that may bring us problems with society, but that we should be aware of what our body is asking us for: air when we breathe, food when we are hungry, sleep when we are tired, etc. In the Dhammaphada, Buddha says that if we neglect food and rest, we will be like a wand, easy to break.

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How to observe the interior?

Let's start with the simplest and most basic thing we