"...but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or low. ... There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces." Marlow, describing Kurtz, in a passage near the end of the Heart of Darkness.

Will the true Buddhist path lead to such freedom on earth? Will the true Buddhist be free of constraints, guided by only his realizations?