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Who Binds You?

Mon, Oct 2, 2006

Awareness, Spirituality

This Zen parable is for someone for whom I’ve been talking for a while.

A man once went to a Zen master and asked; ‘Master, I must seek liberation.’

The teacher asked, ‘Who binds you?’

The student answered; ‘I do not know. Perhaps I bind myself.’

So the teacher replied, ‘In that case, why seek liberation of me? In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver.’

And the student thought: ‘He is speaking of a secret place where our only problem is the seasons of the year.’

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Alvin Soon - who has written 458 posts on Life Coaches Blog.

Alvin has been a personal development coach and is the founder of Life Coaches Blog. He now writes full-time and keeps a personal blog at 21 Dragons.

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  1. Carolyn Manning Says:

    Yeah, we continue to hit every link related to a post, looking for the answer and realize the answer is the post. So I clicked on ‘leave a response’ to thank you for taking me around in a circle so I’d realize “in summer we sweat, in winter we shiver”.

    Carolyn

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