Suppose, for example, that a worried miser carries everywhere with him a bag of money, nervously guarding it, refusing to open it and spend any of it; and then someone comes and persuades him to open the bag to the light of day, revealing that it now holds nothing but chewed paper and a dead rat.
Would not the owner at once drop the bag in disgust? No further debate is necessary--he sees and he lets go.
Meditation works in a similar way, exposing our deepest beliefs to the light and naturally causing us to let go of the false ones.
---Landscapes of Wonder, by Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano---
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