Tricycle Daily Dharma June 3, 2013

The Gifts Along the Way The narratives implicit in spiritual training often contain misdirection of various kinds, under the shadow of which other kinds of change and growth, noticed and unnoticed, may be occurring. In the grand narrative of the voyage from samsara to nirvana, we may tend to overlook all kinds of unsought gifts that befall us along the way. - Henry Shukman, "A Matter of Misdirection"