We keep a focus on what appears as the world: the morning newspaper checking email and Facebook and checkbook.. Perhaps we meditate and notice the thoughts interfering it seems with meditating goals.. All of these outward attractions and destinies seem to claim somewhat of what we are.. The question may assert: What remains..? The assertion arriving with fits of discomfort.. We might respond: Nothing remains: a frightening reply to some..calming to others.. This introduction to what we are is the real message of this season...