Before one is born there are no rings of commitment one is what one is. A Zen koan 'show me your face (or who you were) before you were born'?
When one is born and commences to be brain washed or to be more delicate---educated and taught one might use the analogy of the ring as above, the magicians ring that mysteriously detaches and attaches. The ring here is the cultural, religious, political and depending how well the dogmatism has been then one is hooked and joined for one's life, the ring being humanly and fleshly broken by death. There is a belief that the dogmas carry on in matrix magnetic form which by the law of magnetism and resonance can be inserted back into a fetus. However be that as it may the ring then joins other rings around the globe by the belief system and experiences therein.
One may fight to defend one's chain of rings, the family, the religion, the land and so on even to death, loyalty, honor and pride dictate this.
Then along comes one who thinks, contemplates, ruminates and begins to question and perhaps comes to the conclusion that stiffly held beliefs within the rings leads to a kind of dogma and one can become so entrenched in this that one's view of life becomes narrow and defensive, it becomes the fortress and security and has very definitive boundaries. This when challenged can lead to war and separation. One might fight and go to unreasonable means to hold on tightly, so tight it may crack under the strain.
Then there is another challenge. Perhaps going outside the rings the chains of conditioning one might become a threat to all chains, these nets of beliefs may come after such a rebel. So one may become marginalized and ostracized and one has to be strong to survive this.
Perhaps there is a place or another chain like oneself and then the ring of nonconformity is formed, or perhaps one can go beyond that. This is a stand alone, not lonely but alone, for one can perhaps arrive as it were at the mind of 'who were you before you were born' and then where are the rings and chains? And more to the point who are you?
Then there is another challenge. Perhaps going outside the rings the chains of conditioning one might become a threat to all chains, these nets of beliefs may come after such a rebel. So one may become marginalized and ostracized and one has to be strong to survive this.
Perhaps there is a place or another chain like oneself and then the ring of nonconformity is formed, or perhaps one can go beyond that. This is a stand alone, not lonely but alone, for one can perhaps arrive as it were at the mind of 'who were you before you were born' and then where are the rings and chains? And more to the point who are you?
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