The Power of Now
Chapter One
YOU ARE NOT YOUR MIND
The Greatest Obstacle to Enlightenment
Enlightenment - what is that?
A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a
stranger walked by. "Spare some change?" mumbled the beggar, mechanically
holding out his old baseball cap. "I have nothing to give you," said the
stranger. Then he asked: "What's that you are sitting on?" "Nothing," replied
the beggar. "Just an old box. I have been sitting on it for as long as I can
remember." "Ever looked inside?" asked the stranger. "No," said the beggar.
"What's the point? There's nothing in there." "Have a look inside," insisted the
stranger. The beggar managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief,
and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold.
I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look
inside. Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere even closer: inside
yourself.
"But I am not a beggar," I can hear you say.
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being
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