We build our cages ourselves
Man is a strange animal, he builds his own cages, because he does not want to look further than his "intellect" can overlook the affairs.
What lies outside of his intellect, that is negated, "head in the sand", that will already help. But it doesn't, the transient catches up with us all, no matter how much we resist it.
In order to have as little as possible to do with reality, all kinds of cages are built, by those affected, but also by other people who want to regulate life for themselves (and for all others), so that they themselves feel "more comfortable", because it must not be what goes beyond the horizon.
And so more and more cages are built, people build their cages themselves, nobody and nothing locks them up, only they themselves do it.
All the rules that have been created in the course of time, they slow down the people, more and more is regulated, forbidden, restricted, as long as this goes, until too many cages have been built, then everything discharges in a big bang, all the anger, the disappointment and the longing.
Buddhists can (should) look behind the scenes, not be concerned with building cages, and of course always try to overcome the existing limits, because they have an inner feeling that shows them the way, the way that the great teacher has already gone, that people went before him (who are not known to us), and that so many people have gone since his lifetime.
For this, there must be no more cages, because these are precisely "containers" that prevent us from progressing, imprison us, keep us in one (spiritual) place. And we don't want exactly that, we don't want to suffer anymore, not to be "caught" in the cycle of suffering, but to achieve "liberation". And yes, this world view "pisses off" some fellow human beings, because these want to regulate all other persons, to keep them "caught" in their misery; gone along, caught along!
Free yourself from the cages!
But how should this go, this freeing? What could we do to break our shackles?
First of all, we must look at things realistically, not idealistically; Buddhists are realists, not dreamers. According to Buddha, we should see rightly, recognize rightly, then speak rightly and act rightly (see Buddhism: The Message).
Only then we can see which cages are holding us captive!
Only then we can think about which cages we can live with and which not! Which ones we accept out of consideration, but which ones we don't.
The way is the goal!
If the five obstacles still exist in a seeker, he considers them as his debt to the world, or as a kind of illness, also simply as a captivity.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)