700 years ago

Recently I read "Miscellany in idleness (徒然草, I am not confident about this translation of the Japanese titile)" by Kenko Yoshida written almost 700 years ago. Here is the Chapter 211.
"You should not depend on anything. Regret and grudge occur in yourself only when you deeply depend on something. You can't depend on people in power. The power is bound to fall. You can't depend on wealth. It will in the meantime be wasted. You can't depend on your talent. Even Confucian with the great talent was unlucky and was not treated as he deserved. You can't depend on beliefs of people. They are sure to change. You can't depend on promise. They are sometimes broken.
If you do not expect anything of yourself and others, you will be happy when something good happens and will not grudge anyone for anything if something goes wrong.
If your (inner) space is wide enough, nothing can touch your boundary to hurt it. If your space is infinitely long nothing gets stuck. On the contrary if your space is narrow and short and you have no room for delicate consideration for others, you will conflict with all the things, compete and argue with others and you will destroy yourself.
If you are soft, flexible and spacious nothing can touch you hard. Nothing can hurt you. Humans are spirit between the sky and the earth in its ultimate existence. The sky and the earth has no boundary. Our existence as spirit is, therefore, has no boundary of itself.
When we know this truth, our anger, joy, sorrow and pleasure no longer stand in our way and nothing bothers us."
I wonder if our intelligence has given us any "evolution".