Week 8
It is better
to travel well than to arrive.
--Buddha
Ah…I wish I could say I believe this quote to mean for us to
drop everything, pack up and ride off into the sunset on countless exciting
adventures never to look back. But I know that is not what is to be taken from
this wisdom. What I believe the Buddha is conveying to us here is that it is
better to live a full and productive life filled with love and compassion than
it is to “arrive” (make it big, make a name for yourself, acquire all the ‘stuff’
that we think will make us happy, build our status, gain popular acceptance,
etc…) and that what we do along our journey is just as, if not more, important than
where we are going. His urging of us to “travel well” is to invite us to explore
our options to “living well”.
Just as was covered in the last post, we should not be living our lives
just to have it be a ‘means to an end’—the “arrival” point in our life. Why do
we live our lives this way? We’re always in a hurry to get to the next thing. Never
taking the time to stop and look around to see what might be wonderful right
here in front of us, right now.
We must travel well on this journey—our life—and when we
live it as if it is not that stepping stone to the end result, we won’t care
about the arrival.
The journey will have been enough.
Thank you for being here today.
Namaste,
Nanette
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