Hands Out of the Cookie Jar!

Most people know the challenge a chimpanzee faces when trying to pull cookie or a piece of fruit out of a small mouthed vessel. We encounter a similar conundrum when we seek to shift from our normal mindsets into non personal awareness. When we try to pull out of our self imposed containers, we're so inflated by our self conceptions that we can't escape them. So we first need to release what we've spent our whole lives fabricating, justifying and protecting. Once we do, it becomes clear that what we were holding onto, was the urn itself. Our empty palms, clenched into fists, keeping us captive. In fact, there's no need to move at all, to escape our stoneware cells. As we let go, our jars fall away and we're left inhabiting a boundless sense of being.

And that's far more satisfying than any cookie could ever be.