Travel is a kind of journey

Considering travel as a practice in life, this is the correct view of travel. Life has never been a kind of journey. When we come to this strange world, we have already started our travel career. One day we will leave this world and end our hasty life. You and I and they are all travelers on the journey of life, traveling on our own journey of life. In fact, travel is everywhere, don’t just look forward to traveling to distant places. You should think of your life, your days, your routine, as an extraordinary journey. As long as you live well and truly exist, you are practicing while traveling. We must practice while traveling and travel while practicing, so that we can become a real person. A real person must have his own independent life and his own life, otherwise even if you travel every day, it will be in vain. Cultivation is not a form, but allows oneself to constantly sublimate and change. I treat my trip as a kind of spiritual practice. In the past, Taoist priests practiced while practicing. Cultivation is theoretical, static, and requires a person to be alone, so we must practice in seclusion. It is about cultivating our heart, cultivating our mind, and cultivating our nature. It is about inner cultivation, inner contemplation, and inner enlightenment. Taoist priests will also put their swords on their backs and go down the mountain to practice. This is action. Mere practice is not enough, and it is not the Tao. Therefore, the Tao means that we must cultivate the Tao and practice the Tao. To practice the Tao is to travel to the ends of the earth with a sword, to enter the secular world, and to enter the human world. Those who practice Taoism cannot be divorced from life. To practice is to use your own life to experience and practice the Tao. The world is full of fireworks, and it is dynamic. We need to go among the crowd, understand the affairs of the world, and experience what the way of the world is. The Tao is within ourselves, and at the same time, the Tao is also in the world. I also walked through this step by step. In the past, I was running a business and doing sales. I traveled everywhere and contacted everyone. Later, after reflecting on it, I learned why I was still crying and making a fuss about traveling! In fact, I am on the road every day, I just don’t know it. I live on the road but don’t know that I am on the road. I am an ignorant and boring fake traveler. That’s why I later regarded running business as a practice, and approached every business with a traveling mentality. If you have the heart to travel, you will see scenery everywhere; if you don’t have the heart to travel, you are not a traveler even if you are on the road every day. When the body arrives, everything does not necessarily arrive. Only when the mind arrives can everything arrive. From then on, I recorded everything I saw and heard during my journey, and regarded what I said and learned with others as a kind of practice for myself.

So I grew up while traveling, and it is only now that I have gradually matured. Traveling is practicing cultivation, but you must have a Taoist heart, a Taoist sentiment, and use the Tao to travel. We know that when you travel, you will see scenery you have never seen before, you will eat food you have never eaten before, you will meet different people during the journey, and you will see many things of this or that kind. You will broaden your horizons and change your ideas. What is this? This is practice, and you should regard the journey as your own dojo. In this dojo, you can understand everything in the world, and see and understand everything in the world. The dojo is not in a temple. Those who only chant sutras but do not perform them are stubborn and empty-headed people. You will only become a fat monk. You only have the knowledge and learning gained from sutras and Buddhism, but you have no true spiritual enlightenment and experience. . Stubbornly living in the air, divorced from reality. In fact, learning is not as good as using your heart to understand, and practice is not as good as using your body to experience. But now we have to see all kinds of ugliness. This is why some people regard traveling as an indulgence, aimlessly and wildly. Some people regard traveling as a kind of pleasure and live in vanity and hypocrisy. Some people regard traveling as a kind of escape and cannot bear the blow and pressure of real society. Some people regard travel as a business to seek fame and fortune, and use travel as a fishing rod. These people make me headache and angry. None of these people regard travel as a kind of self-cultivation, and they have never regarded travel as a dojo in their lives. They went to a lot of places, ate a lot of delicious food, saw a lot and heard a lot, but they didn't change anything. If a person doesn’t change at all after a trip, the change I’m talking about is not a tan! Hungry and thin! But if his state of cultivation has not changed, then his trip will be just a shopping trip, and it will be in vain! In our current real life, there are too many such people to count. They just live in a wrong concept of travel and stubbornly believe that they are doing the right thing. This is actually a heartless tour. It feels like you have never been there before. What is travel? Don't rush to travel without figuring this out. Traveling as soon as you want is often an impulse and just following the trend, rather than a kind of growth and enjoyment.

My journey is to use this journey to practice myself in the dojo. After this trip, I am reborn in the fire of desire, so that I can achieve nirvana through this journey. This is also true in reality, and this is what I did. I went to the places I wrote about in the book, and I practiced what I thought and wanted to accomplish in the book. I am sublimating along the way, and I can feel this change, because I have a Taoist heart. In fact, you and I, including him, and everyone, all need a journey, a journey that belongs only to ourselves. Use this journey to cultivate yourself, so that you can find your own path during the journey, and live out your life with color. After practicing while traveling, you will find how beautiful your life is when you come back, and you will also find the true and only you.

Treat your life as a journey. Travel is actually everywhere. The key is that you have a heart to travel. And this heart of traveling is actually the heart of Tao. Only with this heart of Tao can you regard traveling as a kind of spiritual practice, travel with the heart of spiritual practice, regard your own life as a practice, and treat your own life as a kind of spiritual practice. Watching is a kind of practice. Travel is practice, practice is travel. Practice while traveling, travel while practicing. The best way to practice is to travel, and the best way to travel is to practice yourself. People who don’t know how to travel well can’t take this journey of their own lives to practice well, live well, and live out their own life.