THE TENTH MAN : 97




The Bubble of Bondage


Observe each of your performances from waking to sleeping, and from sleeping to waking: is not your every action a reaction? Are you ever not conforming to conditioning, to precedent causes, called 'habits', fashion, or anything else?
Have you ever been free?
So how could you be bound?

Examine what you regard as your self: can you locate any entity anywhere that could be subject to bondage?
Have you ever been bound?
So how could you be free?

Does this way of seeing liberate from bondage to the notion of being bound?

Note: In case it should be necessary to state - there cannot be any such condition as 'bondage' without a corresponding condition of 'freedom', nor one of 'freedom' without 'bondage'.


Isness


Freedom is not freedom from any thing.
Bondage is not bondage to any thing.

It is not even a question as to whether there is or is not any thing to be bound or to be free.

The truth about problems is not whether some thing is or is not so.
The truth about questions is not whether this or that is right or wrong.
There are no questions.
There are no problems.
There is no freedom or bondage.

Such is noumenal understanding - for there is no Time.


(© HKU Press, 1966)
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