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Originally Posted by starnight1
can u try to "create" a different box when u r trapped , when the Source/oneness wants u to be trapped?
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Source or Oneness does not want anything. It simply is.
Speaking of Zen koans, there is a simple one which says:
There is a goose in a bottle. Is it trapped?
The nature of Zen koans is to challenge the intellect to the point of surrender. So we may ponder this on various levels. How large is the bottle? Does the bottle have a lid? Can the goose fly out whenever it wants? What if the bottle is big enough so the goose can fly around inside and never realise it is in a bottle? Perhaps the goose is only trapped if it thinks it is trapped!
Eventually intellect gives up and makes way for intuitive understanding. Then perhaps we might realise something like: a bottle is a bottle and a goose is a goose. The goose is always free to be itself because there is nothing about the bottle that can interfere with the goose-nature of the goose.
So it is with us. We are always free because there is no box which can interfere with our own nature. Therefore we can never be trapped. Whatever our circumstances, we always are what we are and nothing can stop us being what we are.
Peace