Same message, different traditions, exact same amount of time If people seek peace in external points, whether in places or in techniques or in individuals or in deeds … nevertheless wonderful or of whatever kind all this might be, this is all in vain and brings them no tranquility. Those who seek thus look for wrongly; the additionally they go the less they locate what they are seeking. They are like one who has taken a wrong switching: the additional he goes, the more he goes astray. What should he do? In truth, if one surrendered a kingdom or the entire world and did not give up self, she or he would have given up absolutely nothing. However if one surrenders oneself, then whatever one maintains, wide range, honour or whatever it may be, still they have actually quit everything.
Meister Eckhart, German theologian, thinker and mystic, 1260 – – 1328 To
examine the self is to neglect the self.
To fail to remember the self is to be enlightened by the 10 thousand thingsDogen, Buddhist
monk and philosopher, owner of the Soto school of Zen, 1200 – 1253,
