Why Is This Man Smiling?
Because it's taken years and years, but he's finally figured out how to travel light. On this trip through Hong Kong, Macau, Borneo and Lantau Island, off the Chinese Coast, site of the world's largest sitting Buddha, he was roughed up by everything from typhoons, to 7' monitor lizards to fruit bat soup, but he was ready for it all.
Jack Kerouac used to say, "I rode around this country as free as a bee." The author of On The Road, Satori In Paris and The Dharma Bums, among others, not only was a disciple of Zen but a disciple of simplicity of travel as well. "
Achieving minimalism" takes on a mystical aspect, according to Kerouac and many other devotees of Zen travel. By inspiration from a Higher Consciousness one becomes truly "outfitted," both mentally and physically, for what comes down while on the road. And only then can one zip around as free as the proverbial bee.
Jack Kerouac used to say, "I rode around this country as free as a bee." The author of On The Road, Satori In Paris and The Dharma Bums, among others, not only was a disciple of Zen but a disciple of simplicity of travel as well. "
Achieving minimalism" takes on a mystical aspect, according to Kerouac and many other devotees of Zen travel. By inspiration from a Higher Consciousness one becomes truly "outfitted," both mentally and physically, for what comes down while on the road. And only then can one zip around as free as the proverbial bee.
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