What's Stuff? Sir, Regard the Universe.

All talk of charity and duty to one's neighbor is just introducing confusion into the empire. Your attempt to eliminate self is a positive manifestation of selfishness. Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. And all the neighbors came around to commiserate that evening. The next day his son tried to break one of these horses and ride it and was thrown and broke his leg. So he sat there and tried to control his mind in such a way that he would not think of the differences between gain and loss. In other words, try to live in such a ways that nothing is either an advantage or a disadvantage.