The story is told of a traveler staggering down the road with a rock in one hand and a brick in the other.
On his back was a sack of earth, and around his waist was wound a long coil of vines.
On his head was balanced a heavy pumpkin.

Along the way he met a villager who asked, "Weary traveller, why burden yourself with that big rock?"
"That's odd," replied the traveler, "but I never really noticed it before." So he tossed the rock aside and felt much better.

Along came another villager who asked, "tell me, weary traveler, why wear yourself out with that heavy pumpkin?"
"I'm glad you pointed that out," said the traveler, "because I didn't realize what I was doing to myself."
So he knocked the pumpkin off his head and went on his way with a much lighter step.

One by one the villagers made him aware of his needless burdens. So one by one, he let go of them.
Finally, he was a free man, free from all of the extra weight he had been carrying, and he walked like one.

Inner freedom is not a matter of adding anything.. it is purely a ridding process. Next