Going Nowhere, Attaining Nothing

The insight that the Buddha discovered is so simple, and yet so difficult to accept. His teaching introduce us to a dormant, hidden, unrealized part of ourselves. This is the great paradox of the Buddhist path: that we practice in order to know what we already are, therefore attaining nothing, getting nothing, going nowhere. We seek to uncover what has always been there.

 

Yongey Mingyur

from In Love with the World; What a Monk Can Teach You About Living from Nearly Dying