WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.070 align:middle line:84%
And then, the good dog
poem is called "Dharma."

00:00:05.070 --> 00:00:10.440 align:middle line:84%
And dharma, I think, means your
spiritual essence or destiny.

00:00:10.440 --> 00:00:11.260 align:middle line:90%
It's not the dog.

00:00:11.260 --> 00:00:14.670 align:middle line:84%
The dog's name is Janine,
which is a rather far cry

00:00:14.670 --> 00:00:17.075 align:middle line:90%
from dharma, I suppose.

00:00:17.075 --> 00:00:18.450 align:middle line:84%
But the poem is
called, "Dharma."

00:00:18.450 --> 00:00:21.980 align:middle line:90%


00:00:21.980 --> 00:00:24.710 align:middle line:84%
"The way the dog trots
out the front door

00:00:24.710 --> 00:00:28.130 align:middle line:84%
every morning without
a hat or an umbrella,

00:00:28.130 --> 00:00:32.479 align:middle line:84%
without any money or the
keys to her dog house,

00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:36.030 align:middle line:84%
never fails to fill
the saucer of my heart

00:00:36.030 --> 00:00:38.450 align:middle line:90%
with milky admiration.

00:00:38.450 --> 00:00:41.810 align:middle line:84%
Who provides a finer example
of a life without encumbrance.

00:00:41.810 --> 00:00:45.380 align:middle line:84%
Thoreau in his curtainless
hut with a single plate,

00:00:45.380 --> 00:00:46.640 align:middle line:90%
a single spoon?

00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:50.630 align:middle line:84%
Gandhi, with his staff
and his holy diapers?

00:00:50.630 --> 00:00:53.570 align:middle line:84%
Off she goes into the
material world with nothing

00:00:53.570 --> 00:00:57.170 align:middle line:84%
but her brown coat and
her modest blue collar,

00:00:57.170 --> 00:01:00.380 align:middle line:84%
following only her wet
nose, the twin portals

00:01:00.380 --> 00:01:02.300 align:middle line:84%
of her steady
breathing, followed only

00:01:02.300 --> 00:01:05.540 align:middle line:90%
by the plume of her tail.

00:01:05.540 --> 00:01:08.930 align:middle line:84%
If only she did not shove
the cat aside every morning

00:01:08.930 --> 00:01:11.480 align:middle line:90%
and eat all his food.

00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:14.330 align:middle line:84%
What a model of self
containment she would be,

00:01:14.330 --> 00:01:17.180 align:middle line:84%
what a paragon of
earthly detachment.

00:01:17.180 --> 00:01:21.410 align:middle line:84%
If only she were not so eager
for a rub behind the ears,

00:01:21.410 --> 00:01:24.380 align:middle line:90%
so acrobatic in her welcomes.

00:01:24.380 --> 00:01:27.910 align:middle line:90%
If only I were not her god."

00:01:27.910 --> 00:01:29.000 align:middle line:90%