Missing people have been
around as long as…well people have been around, or not around as the case may
be…did you know that Lao-Tzu, the famous Chinese sage and the founder of Taoism
is (was) considered a missing person?...or at least was during his time
according to many…the man who wrote the famous Tao Te Ching is said to have worked in the court of the Zhou dynasty until he
was quite old…he gradually grew more and more dismayed at the corruption and hypocrisy that was widespread
in his surroundings (some things have never changed I guess), he gave everything
up…it is said that he took a few provisions, and then riding a water buffalo,
he headed for the western wilderness…where he never was to be heard from or seen
again… The sentry guarding the
border asked the old master to record his wisdom for the good of the country and
its people before he would be permitted to pass…some believe that this is when
Lao penned the Tao Te Ching…after doing that, Lao-Tzu crossed over the border
and then headed up into the mountains where he disappeared forever…there are
other theories about what happened to him but of course the eyewitnesses are
long dead…who can say?
