Saturday, December 10, 2011

Daily Tao - Fishing for Flies

When he learned how a great fisherman would read the weather, water and so on to gauge when and where to drop his hook, the Taoist sage asked for their guidance. He refused though to fish and stated how he would watch from meditation at the whole process so that when his inner nature had seen all there was to see, he would be a master indeed.

After some days of watching differing conditions and methods, he was bloody hungry.

Chuang Tzu on hearing of this said; “Idiot."

It is one thing to learn, quite another to put into practice.

Daily Tao is a reprint from Ta-Wan's blog, Daily Cup of Tao, which offers one post per day for an entire year. You also can read these posts in an ebook.

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