ORAL PHILOSOPHY (1)

Sutras from the Distant Lands of the Mind

The Sutra of Opening

1

Thus it was transmitted:
man lives in a dream
he mistakes for the world.

2

The dream is not false.
It is repeated.

3

Power does not come from accumulation.
It comes from ending waste.

4

Attention is the only currency.
Whatever demands it in excess
impoverishes you.

5

To live with nobility
is to do precisely
what is necessary.

The Sutra of Agreements

6

Agreements are not thoughts.
They are invisible bonds.

7

What you call “personality”
is a network of old agreements.

8

An agreement is not broken through struggle.
It dissolves through nonparticipation.

9

Do not explain yourself.
Explanation is nourishment
for the agreement.

10

When you remain silent with nobility,
the world loses its arguments.