Once again, Mark Nepo's Book of Awakening has given me a valuable visual image: the monkey and the coconut. In China, they used to catch monkeys using hollowed-out coconuts with rice inside. The monkey would reach inside to grab the rice, making his hand too large to pull back through the hole. The monkey wanted the rice so would continue to struggle to remove his hand with the rice and was thereby trapped.
We often cling to things that we THINK are serving us when they are actually holding us back. It is only when we let go that we can get out of the stuck place. We can only move forward by first accepting where we are.
What feels essential but is actually a trap that is holding you back?
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