Last week I was sitting in the Oklahoma City airport waiting to board a flight that was so late I was sure to miss my connection. What to do? I got out my iPad, and opened Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Tao Te Ching. I started reading where I left off last, and after a couple of page turns I read:
"A good traveler has no fixed plans
and is not intent upon arriving;"
Indeed, that was helpful advice. Thank you, Lao Tzu. It helped me be a little better traveler - if not a good one.
That observation, of course, is another way of saying that a good travel is present, and not attached to a particular outcome.
Much in the Tao Te Ching supports and resonates with the concepts of yoga. I'll be reading the Tao (the Way) more this year, and expect to be enriched by it.
"Open yourself to the Tao, then trust your natural responses,
and everything will fall into place."
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