Guru: "Here is a metaphor for the answer to life"
Seeker: "Where can I find this metaphor? I must seek and see it with my own eyes, I must touch this metaphor and know it is real"
Guru: (cries softly to herself) "Hmm. Ok, if you must, then walk west until you find yourself"
Seeker: [walks west]
Guru: [sits]
Seeker: [after traveling west for so long returns to the start point]
Guru: "So, have you found yourself?"
Seeker: "I thought I saw the metaphor many times. I once saw a tree that was shaped in such a way as that I thought of the great metaphor and so I cut it down and made a shrine to its stump and a necklace from its fruits"
Guru: "... "
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.
Seeker: "Where can I find this metaphor? I must seek and see it with my own eyes, I must touch this metaphor and know it is real"
Guru: (cries softly to herself) "Hmm. Ok, if you must, then walk west until you find yourself"
Seeker: [walks west]
Guru: [sits]
Seeker: [after traveling west for so long returns to the start point]
Guru: "So, have you found yourself?"
Seeker: "I thought I saw the metaphor many times. I once saw a tree that was shaped in such a way as that I thought of the great metaphor and so I cut it down and made a shrine to its stump and a necklace from its fruits"
Guru: "... "
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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