Those worldly think the spiritual are foolish
for not focusing on, say, what there is to eat,
on how to enjoy life.
Some live to eat.
Are the most practical things the most obvious?
Those spiritual think the worldly are foolish
for not focusing on, say, why they should eat,
on how to live life.
Some eat to live.
Are the most practical things the most subtle?
Those who mistake the unessential to be essential
and the essential to be unessential,
dwelling in wrong thoughts,
never arrive at the essential.
Those who know the essential to be essential
and the unessential to be unessential,
dwelling in right thoughts,
do arrive at the essential.
– The Buddha (Dhammapada)