To further take advantage of the start of a new year, I’d like to read daily from Deng Ming-Dao’s “365 Tao: Daily Meditations,” and write about what I feel is the most significant from each page.
It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive.
The first entry in “365 Tao” talks about the hope and optimism present in a new beginning. People become excited about the new long term goals they have set for themselves, but only by staying committed the whole way through, will they achieve that goal. Perhaps the rock may not ever literally sprout arms and legs, but it will be enliven in some spiritual sense if enough hope, effort, and commitment is put into it. So all those real, life changing New Year’s resolutions, make sure you commit to them hard! Day after day! Haru Haru!