It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.

Do you want love, or do you want control?

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.

If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.

You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.

Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.

We come to the end of suffering, through suffering.