A monkey...................

The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle:
Totally fascinated by the realm of the senses, it
     swings from one desire to the next, one
     conflict to the next, one self-centered idea
     to the next.
If you threaten it, it actually fears for its life.

Let this monkey go.
Let the senses go.
Let desires go.
Let conflicts go.
Let ideas go.
Let the fiction of life and death go.
Just remain in the center, watching.

And then forget that you are there.

-Chapter 10
Hua Hu Ching:  The Unkonwn Teachings of Lao Tzu
Brian Walker