Living my whole life in New Orleans, except for two months following Hurricane Katrina, Lao Tsu’s words seem familiar.
Passersby may stop for music and good food
It is human nature to be drawn to the pleasures of the senses. And we are drawn as well to those who show true contentment and happiness through their keeping to the Way. But these casual passersby inevitably find the work of spiritual practice bland and tasteless. For them the Tao seems flavorless and without substance. If they were to STOP! and be something more than a passerby. Then, they would realize that the Tao is an inexhaustible font of “rest and happiness and peace.”
