Tuesday, December 8, 2020

On selflessness

 Selflessness

Misery only doth exist, none miserable,
No doer is there; naught save the deed is found.
Nirvâna is, but not the man who seeks it.
The Path exists, but not the traveller on it.

Visuddhimagga (chapt. 16)
Trs. H.C. Warren (Essays in Zen Buddhism – Second Series 311)