Mark 6:8 Meaning He Commanded Them That They Should Take

To carry correction the mind must set down everything it thought would protect it, for the ego's provisions are all forms of the belief that supply comes from the world and that the self must guard against lack. Taking nothing is not deprivation but freedom, the discovery that a mind trusting love needs no defense it has stored against tomorrow. The one thing kept is the single support of that trust, all that is required for the whole journey.

What weighs a mind down is not the road but the baggage of fear it insists on hauling. Laid aside, the burden is seen never to have been needed, and the traveler learns that everything necessary is already given.

Staff: the one true support the mind may lean on, the strength of trust that is all the journey asks. Bread: the stored provision the ego clutches against imagined lack, the belief that a mind must feed itself from the world. Money: the hoarded security of the ego, the treasure laid up against a future that trust makes unnecessary. Purse: the container of the mind's defenses, the place where fear keeps what it thinks it cannot do without.