"What is it all about? It's like asking: 'What's the pit in the middle of an onion?' And, you take off all the skin, and so on, and so on, and so on… And suddenly you find you've got a litter of skins and no pit. There wasn't anything in it. You might say: 'Well, that's a hoax. Life is a deception; a tale told by an idiot.' And yet, what you had missed, in looking for the pit, were the beautiful skins. See, that's the edible part of the onion." ~Alan Watts in audio "Zen and the West - Early Chinese Zen"