We can attain harmony with others spontaneously when we remember the truth that all things and all men are permeated by one great life-energy and that all things are invisibly interconnected, and when we make the best use of this interconnection by abandoning the idea of ego, that is, by enhancing this interconnection to benefit both ourselves and others. When in harmony with others, we can give up excess and deficiency, struggle and friction, and can maintain peaceful minds. This is the state expressed in the law “Nirvana is quiescence.” It is an ideal state that can be only attained by realizing the other two laws, “All things are impermanent” and “Nothing has an ego.”

The doctrines of the Eightfold Path and the Six Perfections teach us how to live in order to reach the state of “Nirvana is quiescence” and how we should practice the Buddha’s teachings in order to do so.