May 25 2009
Letting Go
I don’t remember the first time I heard this old Taoist tale, but it’s worth sharing:
Two hunters, out in the early morning, stopped to admire a raging river. To their horror, they saw a limp body coming downstream towards them, repeatedly appearing and then being sucked back down into the churning waters. As the body started floating closer to the river’s edge, the two men scurried to find something with which to grab at it.
As the body was washing up on the banks, they got within feet of it to retreive it, but were instead awestruck to see the body straighten up, shake off the water and walk out towards them.
In astonishment, they asked, “Old Man, How did you survive?! How did you not drown?!”
The old man grinned, bowed to them and replied,
“It is easy. When the water goes up, you go up. And you go down when the water goes down.”
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