Douglas, Thanks for the first podcast/article in your series. In a way your writing to us is in itself a “sutra,” something of “inestimable value,” “worlds of learning not islands of thought.” I am currently teaching a course on Romantic Poets, and it occurs to me that the sutra tradition is still with us today with our great poets of recent years. The work of Wordsworth and Keats require similar “exegesis,” “contain ambiguity” and paradox, have “missing words,” and are also similarly “auspicious.” My class and I are “pulling on the threads” of the sutras of our time to “unravel more possibility and value.” Especially loved your examination of the word “now.” Can’t wait for the next one!
Douglas, Thanks for the first podcast/article in your series. In a way your writing to us is in itself a “sutra,” something of “inestimable value,” “worlds of learning not islands of thought.” I am currently teaching a course on Romantic Poets, and it occurs to me that the sutra tradition is still with us today with our great poets of recent years. The work of Wordsworth and Keats require similar “exegesis,” “contain ambiguity” and paradox, have “missing words,” and are also similarly “auspicious.” My class and I are “pulling on the threads” of the sutras of our time to “unravel more possibility and value.” Especially loved your examination of the word “now.” Can’t wait for the next one!