Brian Moylan offers some advice for peaceful co-existence between visitors and locals
on the busy streets of New York this summer — though some of it, like the suggestion that tourists should
stay strictly
on the beaten
path of big - time Manhattan attractions, seems more geared
towards the comfort of city - dwellers than the enjoyment of newcomers.
The element of presence / absence, spanning the physical and the metaphorical, is the Bodhisattva, a Buddhist figure who renounces divinity in order to
stay on and teach men the
path that leads
towards divinity; the very
path that he is the first to renounce.