Accept pain as the human condition.
What do you mean by "Accept difficulty willingly"?
Accept being unimportant.
Do not be concerned with your heart rate.
This is called "accepting difficulty willingly."
What do you mean by "Accept pain as the human condition"?
Pain comes from having a body.
Without a body, how could there be pain?
Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to ride any trail.
Love your bike as your own self; then you can truly ride anywhere.
Adapted by Corvus Corvax from The Tao Te Ching, translation by Gia-Fu Feng
and Jane English, Random House, Inc., New York (1972), with apologies to Lao Tsu.
© 2002 Dirt Rag Magazine
