Thursday: Traveling
You've been given the opportunity to take a vacation. The trip can be any length of time and you can go anywhere you would like. Where would you go? How long would you spend there? What souvenirs would you buy?
I want to go everywhere and I want to go nowhere. I want to just start wandering the world and find those quiet, empty places where no one’s around and listen to the Universe. I want to find crowded markets and surround myself in noise and people and listen to the World. I want to get lost and I want to find my way back again.
Travel is not about the destination. Travel is the journey. The first step on a trip is more important than the last, though the last is important in a different way. Everyone talks about the first step is the hardest. I don’t agree. The first step is the easiest. To go, to move in the world freely is the easiest thing in the world. Stopping, being trapped, that’s hard. If I traveled, stopping would be hard. After seeing one place, I’d want to see another. I’d want to keep going until I’d seen everything, experienced everything.
I’d have to stop for a bit, to spend some time with real Zen masters and see if they could teach me anything new. Though, the Master shouldn’t make a difference, I want to see if they can teach me more than books or tapes. I could do it pretty easy too. I’ve got money, I could quit my job and take off, disappear in the world and stop being that Charlie Crews. I could really be this Charlie Crews.
Except in Zen, everything’s a journey. You don’t have to travel to take a trip. You’re already on one. I’m already on one and until I finish that trip, I can’t start another.
Det. Charlie Crews
Life
Something to say?
I want to go everywhere and I want to go nowhere. I want to just start wandering the world and find those quiet, empty places where no one’s around and listen to the Universe. I want to find crowded markets and surround myself in noise and people and listen to the World. I want to get lost and I want to find my way back again.
Travel is not about the destination. Travel is the journey. The first step on a trip is more important than the last, though the last is important in a different way. Everyone talks about the first step is the hardest. I don’t agree. The first step is the easiest. To go, to move in the world freely is the easiest thing in the world. Stopping, being trapped, that’s hard. If I traveled, stopping would be hard. After seeing one place, I’d want to see another. I’d want to keep going until I’d seen everything, experienced everything.
I’d have to stop for a bit, to spend some time with real Zen masters and see if they could teach me anything new. Though, the Master shouldn’t make a difference, I want to see if they can teach me more than books or tapes. I could do it pretty easy too. I’ve got money, I could quit my job and take off, disappear in the world and stop being that Charlie Crews. I could really be this Charlie Crews.
Except in Zen, everything’s a journey. You don’t have to travel to take a trip. You’re already on one. I’m already on one and until I finish that trip, I can’t start another.
Det. Charlie Crews
Life
Something to say?