"Seeker: “Teach me the way to liberation.” Zen master: “Who binds you?” Seeker: “No one binds me.” Zen master: “Then why seek liberation?” OUR PRISON, OUR DUNGEON, IS IN US. IT’S in our own mind, our own thinking. We strap ourselves in chains of our own making, and we do the same to each other. We train our children in the ways of bondage. All this is based on ignorance. We don’t see what we are. We don’t see our situation for what it is, nor do we see how to deal with it. As Yang Chu says, we pass by the joys of life without knowing we’ve missed anything." ~Steve Hagen, "Buddhism Plain and Simple"