Reading Chögyam Trunga:
“We must surrender our hopes and expectations, as well as our fears, and march directly into disappointment, work with disappointment, go into it and make it our way of life, which is a very hard thing to do. Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing. This automatically brings a feeling of disappointment.”
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Perhaps I am a sufferer of RADD, Reader Attention Deficit Disorder. Or perhaps I just like to savor the books I read. In any case, I have finally completed Taigen Dan Leighton's newish book on Dogen and the Lotus Sutra. Reading it has left me with hunger pangs for more. More Dogen, more Lotus Sutra. I have Moon in a Dewdrop handily available in my backpack and I have begun reading through the essays in Dogen Zen And It's Relevance For Our Time, beginning with Gary Snyder's essay on Dogen's Mountains and Waters Sutra and I have a copy of the Burton Watson translation of the Lotus Sutra at home. Handy for before bedtime study.