Can you see the meaning?–Dismount your donkey at the summit.  No matter what tool gets you there (wherever that turn in the path is “there”), the tool should be left free, to graze.  You ford a stream with a canoe, but don’t need to haul it across the dry plains.

Maybe love and kindness is essential to relationships, but overreaching to the other person when there IS no relationship, is running the donkey around at the top of a tiny cliff-no where to go.  Just the same view over and over again.

Let me be Your humble ass, serve, walk the path, and then graze on sweet grass at the summit.

I sink into my chair in this quiet morning room and let the soft symphony of the steady deep green blanket of rain relax all my stubborn bones.