The Importance of Desire

"I was disappointed early on. I actually had a very, very, very helpful disappointment," he says. "If you've never been spiritually disappointed, then you obviously have never done any spiritual practice." The first person you get disappointed with is you know who, right? Yeah. You say, okay, I'm going to make my train my mind and make it quiet and open my heart. And your mind goes, are you kidding me? And it goes crazy. Right? Because of Mara who attacked Buddha under the Bodhi tree, the great Buddhist myth?"