Money is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself. A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked s… - Alan Watts

The reality of money is of the same type as the reality of centimeters, grams, hours, or lines of longitude. Money is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself. A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft. He needs real wealth, in the form of a fishing rod, a compass, an outboard motor with gas, and a female companion.

Nu există loc în budism pentru folosirea efortului. Fii doar obișnuit și nimic mai mult. Ușurează-ți intestinele, elimină apa, pune-ți hainele, mănâncă-ți hrana. Când ești obosit, du-te și te întinde. Oamenii ignoranți vor râde de tine, dar cei înțelepți vor înțelege... Pe măsură ce mergi dintr-un loc în altul, dacă îl privești pe fiecare ca pe căminul tău, ele toate vor fi într-adevăr așa, fiindcă, atunci când circumstanțele se produc, nu trebuie să încerci să le schimbi. Astfel obișnuințele voastre de simțire, care produc karma pentru cele Cinci Iaduri, vor deveni de la sine Marele Ocean al Eliberării.

To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.
It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.

Thus in using myth one must take care not to confuse image with fact, which would be like climbing up the signpost instead of following the road