[T]he Buddha never indulged in metaphysics. His concern was relentlessly practical:life is full of suffering, the cause of that suffering is selfishness, and selfishness can be removed by practicing the Eightfold Path. Anything else is a distraction. On what lay beyond the impermanent world of ego and change, his attitude was simply, "First go there; then you will see for yourself."
---Eknath Easwaran, in is commentary of The Dhammapada---
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