Someone asked the Sage:
- What is your secret? What is your discipline?
He replied:
— I live an ordinary life - this is my discipline. I eat when I eat, sleep when I sleep and do business when I do business.
The questioner was puzzled. He said:
“But I don’t see anything special in this.”
The sage said:
- That's the whole point. There's nothing special.
The questioner was still puzzled. He said:
“But everyone does it: they eat when they eat; sleep when they sleep.
The sage laughed and said:
- No. When you eat, you do a thousand things at the same time and therefore none perfectly: you think, you dream, you imagine, you remember. You don't just eat. When I eat, I simply eat: then there is only food and nothing else. When I walk, I walk and enjoy the walk. There is only a walk - and nothing more!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru