When Your Boat Hits the Shore

If we want to find Reality we must seek for it, but the instant that that Reality starts to reveal itself we should cease to make effort. When our seeking has been fruitful, and the intimations of that which we have been searching for start to dawn on us, all effort and control must be abandoned so that we can be available to perceive directly the ver)^ thing we have been searching for. Rowing in a boat from the ocean to the shore when our boat arrives at its destination it is imperative that we get out of the boat. The boat represents all our ideas, our effort, our striving and our fears. The shore is the unknown. For most people the unconditional acceptance of the totality of the Truth as it is poses an unbearable threat in the face of which they are terrified. For this reason most individuals even long after their boat has touched the sand of yonder shore prefer the familiarity of the boat rather than accepting the perfect Freedom of abandoning all reference points whatsoever and jumping out of the b o a t a n d i n t o t h e u n k n o w n f o r e v e r. 2 6 0