This time he walked for five weeks under the massif of Annapurna, from the Dhorpatan to Dzong, over Jang La pass, between the Seng and Bheri Rivers, on to Ring-mo, and on over Kang La pass, toward Crystal Mountain in "the Land of Dolpo,"īefore the onrush of approaching winter. Thus, among good writers he is something of a throwback. Off the coast of Australia, and visited the Eskimos. Though he also writes good novels, he has gone rafting on the Amazon, adventured in New Guinea, rattled through a substantial stretch of East Africa by souk lorry and Land Rover, chased sharks Undertaking journeys such as his in recent years. To rest in Tao means fulfillment, wholeness, one’s destination reached, one’s mission done the beginning, end, and perfect realization of the meaning of existence innate in all things.Eter Matthiessen has made another of his epic trips for us-epic in the sense that he writes about them so much better than anybody else who has been The undiscovered vein within us is a living part of the psyche classical Chinese philosophy names this interior way “Tao,” and likens it to the flow of water that moves irresistibly to one’s goal.
But he knows better: it is the law… The only meaningful life is a life that strives for the individual realization-absolute and unconditional-of its own particular law… To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being… he has failed to realize his life’s meaning. “You are no different from anybody else,” they will chorus, or “there’s no such thing,” and even if there is such a thing, it is immediately branded as “morbid.” … He is at once set apart and isolated, as he has resolved to obey the law that commands him from within. In most cases it is impossible to explain to the others what has happened, for any understanding is walled off by impenetrable prejudices. The fact that many a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing… He must obey his own law, as if it were a daemon whispering to him of new wonderful paths… There are not a few who are called awake by the summons of the voice, whereupon they are at once set apart from the others, feeling themselves confronted with a problem about which the others know nothing.
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