Unpacking Your BOXES.

What are you?

This is a question that an ego-self can never answer and until it is answered, what else matters? Until you can fully answer, what difference does does it make how you conduct your life, since an undefined ego-self knows NOT what life is for. How could it know?



However, the ego-self will always provide answers that only lead to more questions, such as “I am a self.”

But then, what is a ‘self’?

The ego does NOT travel lightly. It has many boxes and crates for which it identifies itself THROUGH identifying others and its ‘world.’ This burden is more than it can handle and it is so overloaded with ‘identifiers’ that it eventually becomes completely desensitized to the question and stooped from the weight of the answers.

Most egos recognize this weight as a burden. Hence, they go about unpacking their boxes in the hope of lightening their egocentric load. But the weight never seems to diminish, only becomes more oppressive. This is because they erroneously unpack the boxes which identify a personal “self,"’ when it’s the boxes identifying others that cause the most weight.

It's the identities you press upon a world of others that burdens you most. It’s your resentment of me that weighs you down. It’s not your personal egocentricity that is suffered through but your demand that others fit your boxes through their own egocentricity. It is from these boxes that you define yourself and, until they are unpacked, you will suffer from the weight of a world of your making. You will NEVER learn what you are, until you unpack what you demand THEY must be for YOU. They define you, simply because you demand it so... by defining them. This exchange is a never-ending continuum that is always on YOUR mind.

From the moment you were born and became cognizant of a separate identity, you began packing boxes. Each box was filled with what others gave you and you meticulously filled your boxes with these “gifts" and from those “gifts,” you began to define a whole world of others as they in turn defined you. What they gave you, you pressed back upon them in an alternating current of interdependent exchange. But the most important info exchanged was that, like them, you were a unique individual that was definitively…unlike them.

In being just like them, you demand being "different"... just like them.

And so it goes, the packing of the boxes year after year. It seems easy to define others in reference to the ‘self’ they gave you and that you return back to them. Your boxes insure that no one can fail to be KNOWN and categorized. Those who cannot be defined cannot be trusted (that has a box too). Thus everyone who defined “you” seeks to meet your definition of themselves, through the boxes they helped you fill and that you now help them in keeping CLOSED. In this way we all share the same burden and suffer through the weight of the same boxes. This weight of concepts is literally killing you. But nevertheless, you still claim to be free….LOL! But how can one who lives out of boxes ever be free?

It is your defining of me that boxes you in and never any self-definition you apply to your ‘self,’ because every definition superimposed upon the self…I gave you through our ongoing conceptual exchange.

One day, however, you may finally realize the cause of this weight and that it has little to do with “you” and much more to do with “them.” Make no mistake, the “enlightened master” who claims freedom from self, but still sees YOUR egocentricity, is nothing more than a “Master of Boxes.”

Artwork by Shawn Barber - "D.I.D"