147-We build our cages ourselves - Buddhism in daily life

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


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