The Table Does Not Mean Anything

There’s something that happens when we stop seeking, and start finding. One day, we quit trying to find out who we are, and begin to see who we are not. It’s a negation process. And this isn’t to say we won’t gain clarity of Self, it’s to say we will more accurately see our self (little s) - that which we are not.

The whole spiritual trip begins by slowly coming to grips with the totally inaccurate representations we’ve given to everything in our lives. We’ve assigned value to all this stuff, and more importantly, we’ve attached our own self-worth to it. We suddenly realize we are so much more. “The stuff we own ends up owning us”.

As we begin to see that the stuff has nothing to do with who we are, that it is all meaningless, we can begin to experience freedom. To escape from prison, we have to first wake up to the fact that we’ve been in a prison our entire lives. And that freedom is indeed possible.

Only by letting go do we realize we are both the jailer and the inmate. We are both the guard and the prisoner. We hold the keys to the cell we have been locked in. Freedom comes from the intensive self-searching that leads us to find that the seeking is the suffering. By finding, we became free. When we cease seeking, we are let go. As we begin to let go of attachments, we begin to know freedom. Suddenly, we find everything is perfect, everything is love, everything is everything.