
Was pleasantly struck by the following passage in Peter Matthiessen´s fenomenal travel-meets-Zen book The Snow Leopard today. "It is related that Sakyamuni once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had wasted twenty years of his human existence in learning how to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin..." Neil Young - Cripple Creek Ferry MP3 Delmore Brothers [...]