Disappointment Meditation
It is almost impossible to disappoint your dog.
We, on the other hand, are easily disappointed.
This is because we do not live in the here and now, but rather focus our expectations and self-deception on the future.
I can disappoint a dog if, for example, I put on my hiking boots and grab the leash, but then do not go into the woods with him.
But this disappointment is immediately forgotten and is not artificially maintained by circling thoughts, flashbacks, predictions, etc.
The dog will then, for example, fetch one of its toys and bring it to us, wagging its tail…
“Okay, if we don’t go into the woods, then let’s play.”
Under no circumstances will it withdraw in disappointment and stop communicating with us…
It only does that when all its attempts at communication fail. But it is immediately ready to start communicating again. Karl Valentin’s bon mot ” I am happy when it rains. Because if I am not happy, it rains too “
applies to hardly any other living creature as well as it does to our dogs.
And Bobby doesn’t know Confucius , who says:
” Do not be angry, sit on the bank of the quiet river and wait until the corpses of your enemies float by .”
Bobby, on the other hand, says:
” Don’t get angry, take your dog and go into the forest with him.
Enjoy each other and nature, which is the true miracle, and of which you are a part.
Because, as you humans should know, trinkets are the creation of human hands. “
And Bobby knows this without having read Fontane or ever ordered anything from Temu .