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Chains
11 years ago
Life is about transformation. Breaking free of the chains that hang from your body and bind you to your old perceptions. You break free but then the chains emerge again. What is one to do? What is freedom in this predicament?
Freedom is owning the chains that bind you.
Jesus walked with dignity as he bore the cross. The billion people line up in their little pews every Sunday to contemplate the ultimate submission of the ultimate creator and destroyer. It's a deep need that balances us all.
As life takes you by the jugular, as the great tidal wave washes through you, as you surrender to the great white light of nothingness from which you came and from which you will go, that is where dignity rises up and envelopes you.
You can experience it lying down in a church as the piano sings out beautiful hymns. You can experience it in a room full of monks as the great chants rise within you all. And you can experience it every time you take that leap of faith, that step outside of the normal, that risk of ego death for the sake of something greater.
In every great movie there is a key moment at the end of Act II. It is the moment when the protagonist makes a choice. To give up something he values -- often his life -- for the sake of something greater. In the movies, what at first appears to be death is actually rebirth. It is the core of the hero's journey we live everyday.
I have been hunting these people down. People who hold the keys to sexuality, freedom, and creativity. I've stood in awe as I saw them do all the things I was too afraid to do myself.
So imagine my surprise as I stood there, this time draped in my own symbols of masculinity, utility, and worth. I took a look in the mirror. Oh my God, what am I doing? What have I become?
That was when I realized I, too, hold one of those keys. And it's time I used it.
Freedom is owning the chains that bind you.
Jesus walked with dignity as he bore the cross. The billion people line up in their little pews every Sunday to contemplate the ultimate submission of the ultimate creator and destroyer. It's a deep need that balances us all.
As life takes you by the jugular, as the great tidal wave washes through you, as you surrender to the great white light of nothingness from which you came and from which you will go, that is where dignity rises up and envelopes you.
You can experience it lying down in a church as the piano sings out beautiful hymns. You can experience it in a room full of monks as the great chants rise within you all. And you can experience it every time you take that leap of faith, that step outside of the normal, that risk of ego death for the sake of something greater.
In every great movie there is a key moment at the end of Act II. It is the moment when the protagonist makes a choice. To give up something he values -- often his life -- for the sake of something greater. In the movies, what at first appears to be death is actually rebirth. It is the core of the hero's journey we live everyday.
I have been hunting these people down. People who hold the keys to sexuality, freedom, and creativity. I've stood in awe as I saw them do all the things I was too afraid to do myself.
So imagine my surprise as I stood there, this time draped in my own symbols of masculinity, utility, and worth. I took a look in the mirror. Oh my God, what am I doing? What have I become?
That was when I realized I, too, hold one of those keys. And it's time I used it.
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~romaniete
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