Thus if man is to realize again his fundamental unity and harmony with life he must proceed by the roundabout way of trying to get that which he alre… - Alan Watts

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.

We are particular and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pâté de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement — and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy.

This is the greatness of human consciousness, but at the same time it is always posing the practical problem of how to live upon the lower level when one's understanding reaches to the higher. For if we discover that there is some superior order harmonizing what seem to be conflicts at the level of our normal, individual consciousness, may not this new understanding upset our standards and weaken the will to fight?
If we see that the Good of the world is not the victory of· good over evil but, on the contrary, the tense polarity of good-and-evil in perpetual conflict, is it not possible that this will lead us to a recognition of the function of evil making it difficult for us to fight and hate it?