Therefore [Buddhist adepts] try to be of service uncriticzingly, selflessly, not adapting things to themselves but themselves to things, and paying attention less to what they do than how they do it, letting things be and trying to make the best of them. On the quiet they work at themsleves. With others they are indulgent, with themselves not. They begin in a small and modest way, knowing that only so can they master greater difficulties. - Eugen Herrigel, _The Method of Zen_, p.83.