Collected wisdom

If you don't understand the Way as it meets your eyes, how can you know the Path as you walk?

-Shih-t'ou

Sakka asked: "What is the cause of self-interest?"
The Buddha answered: "It is perception of the world as one's object."
"How does one overcome this perception of the world as apart from oneself?"
"By acting for the increase of goodness and happiness. It is in this way that the world ceases to be one's object."

-Digha Nikaya

Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself.
Studying oneself is forgetting oneself.
Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things.
Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others.
No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment
continues endlessly.

--Dogen Zenji

If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people's opinions, you will never be rich.

--Seneca

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