4th January

Student: " What is the path to liberation?"
Seng-t'san: " Who binds you?"
Student: " No one binds me?"
Seng-t'san: " Why then do you want to be liberated?"

This text illustrates perfectly how we have a perception that we should be more than we already are. It is a nagging doubt that there is something missing in our lives, that we can be more than we are in this moment. Asked what that thing is we have no answer, we have no definition of that which we seek the most. So therefore the illusion is laid bare. It is the perception that we are missing something, that we are lacking something which causes most of our suffering.