To know the world, one has to know oneself, for the world out there does not exist independently of one's own mind. The world we live in is the world we have created by our choices and actions. The division we see out there between people is the division that lies within ourselves, a division that can only exist in a mind that ignores its real identity - a division that reflects the mind's limitations imposed over the reality of true being.

All issues and all activities can only dissolve into emptiness, for this is the origin and the culmination of all things. The purpose of meditation is to bring us to this awareness… but with this awareness we come to see that even the practice itself is called upon to become as irrelevant as any other worldly activity.