Explanation Of The Tao Te Ching Part Forty Seven 

“Without going outside, you may know the whole world.
Without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven.
The farther you go, the less you know. 

Thus the sage knows without traveling;
He sees without looking;
He works without doing.”

We don’t need to go or look outside to know the world or heaven, we can seal the outward senses and use them to look inwards and know.

The more we are distracted outward, the less likely we are to gain essential wisdom. Everything we need, we already have. It’s often said that ‘zen is like looking for the spectacles on our nose’.