Is travel a joy or a burden, an opportunity or an obligation? Here are eight different perspectives to help you reframe and refine your approach to travel.
This reminds me of the Buddhist terms for sentient being, "drowa", which literally means "goers", or wanderers. This refers to the endless cycling from life to life, searching for an end to suffering (and yet, caught in the ignorance and habits which perpetuate that very suffering). As one of my teachers put it, even when we change our place and situation, even though we may feel some improvement or relief, fundamentally we're switching addresses but staying in the same city, that of samsara, the cycle of suffering. Sounds pretty grim, perhaps, but obviously the point is to follow a path to true liberation, but that's for another time :). Thanks so much for this, yet another great article.
This is fascinating! I love the metaphor of a new address in the same city -- which is remarkably close to to what Horace says. Even more I like the notion that to understand our lives -- even if we stay still -- we have to understand what it is to travel. Thanks for this!
This reminds me of the Buddhist terms for sentient being, "drowa", which literally means "goers", or wanderers. This refers to the endless cycling from life to life, searching for an end to suffering (and yet, caught in the ignorance and habits which perpetuate that very suffering). As one of my teachers put it, even when we change our place and situation, even though we may feel some improvement or relief, fundamentally we're switching addresses but staying in the same city, that of samsara, the cycle of suffering. Sounds pretty grim, perhaps, but obviously the point is to follow a path to true liberation, but that's for another time :). Thanks so much for this, yet another great article.
This is fascinating! I love the metaphor of a new address in the same city -- which is remarkably close to to what Horace says. Even more I like the notion that to understand our lives -- even if we stay still -- we have to understand what it is to travel. Thanks for this!
I find that if I keep my destination in mind the journey passes faster.