This message is consistent across all wisdom traditions.

“Sit in your cell and it will teach you everything,” they said. The point was that unless a man could find God here, in this one place, his cell, he would not find him by going somewhere else.

Benedicta Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers

The monk asks for ultimate meaning. The answer is not in metaphysics but in noticing what is right in front of him

A monk asked Zhaozhou,
“What is the meaning of the ancestral teacher’s coming from the West?”

Zhaozhou replied,
“The cypress tree in the courtyard.”

Kōan Case 37 of The Gateless Gate, attributed to Zhaozhou Congshen (Joshu), 778 – 897