WHY IS THIS MAN SMILING?
Because it'd been 12,000 miles since he'd finally learned how to travel light. Zenhabits (Mar. 12 & 17 posts) On this trip last fall, through Hong Kong, Macau, Borneo and Lantau Island, off the Chinese coast, site of the world's largest sitting Buddha, he was roughed up but ready, for everything from typhoons to 7' monitor lizards to fruit bat soup.
"I rode around this country as free as a bee," Jack Kerouac used to say. The author of On The Road, Satori In Paris and the Dharma Bums, among others, not only was a student of Zen but a disciple of simplicity of travel as well. "
Achieving minimalism" almost takes on a mystical aspect, according to Kerouac and many other devotees of Zen travel. Only a Higher Consciousness can "outfit" us, both mentally and physically, for what comes down while on the road.
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