I recieved this picture in an email the other day. I had to laugh at the humor it portrays. As I delved deeper into the message, it brings thoughts and ideas about what squirrel is overlooking. It seems to me to be a metaphor of our lives in today's culture. As Lao Tzu wrote in the TaoTe Ching. "The words of truth are always paradoxical." We may be attracted to noble ideas of truth, but our egos usually reject what the truth calls upon us to do. In lieu of wisdom, serenity, humility, peace, patience or any other truth we chase the rigors of "things". The things that tend to fill a need of want, something that will ease and soothe, or feed egoic longings. Something that is counter-intuitive, at least initally. Indeed the things to which we are drawn like squirrel seems inherently contradicting, and therein, of course, lies the paradox.
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