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How shall I
best interpret Tao? How will I explain the teachings of Tao? How will I
describe Tao? How can I communicate where Tao is to another person? The
answer, almost obvious, is that I cannot. At the very best all anyone can do
is try to shine a light on the path, and walk. If someone else joins us
while we walk, and walks with us for a while then we have company, if not,
we walk alone, but still we walk. On this path, there are no busses, no
cars, not even a bicycle, it is strictly a foot path. There are many, many
souls who having lost their way sit along the edge of the path, and
sometimes one of those souls is me. Then one day, after a rest, some
meditation, a gentle word, a small kindness, I get up again and I walk. What’s the
point? Why all of this walking? It is simply because Tao only can be found
in the journey that is in the walking. Tao, true, real, permanent, nameless
Tao cannot be found in any book, or in any school. The ancient
masters knew this, and Lao Tzu warned us as well. When we bury ourselves in
academics or esoterica we lose Tao. As we give ourselves over to grappling
with interpretation, we lose meaning. It is very easy to become lost in the
trap of over analysis and pointless bickering, when what really matters is
the walk. Even the path becomes unimportant if no one can find it.
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