Beguiled: Chains

When I meditate it seems as if I change the place from which I am looking. Nothing changes except my perspective, but that’s all I need. I don’t have to change anything, just my perspective.

Chaos is always here.
Harmony is always here.
Suffering is always here.
Liberation from suffering is always here.

I know suffering when I am suffering.
I know liberation when I am awake.

But what is it that changes my perspective?
Do I change it? Is it what I am doing/not doing that changes it?
Or, does it merely change by itself, and it’s just that I happen to be paying attention at the time?

Then again, there is also a kind of cause and effect involved, is there not?
Something causes this change (or does it?)

It is said that if you break free from this chain of cause and effect, you are free to act, but when you are free, how will you act then?

This is the fear.

Then again, what if we are never independent from conditions? Then, I think we can only act within the parameters of all the conditions; we cannot depart from that.

If this is so then why do we make the judgments we make about people?

Or, maybe that too is conditioned.