Excerpt from book
Morpheus tells Neo that, like him everyone is a slave to the false world of The Matrix.
When we are in the prison of the mind, we really believe whatever we want to believe, under its influence. Our wonderland, our life of misery and suffering, is the rabbit hole we dig with our narrow notions and relations of our mind. We make ourselves a slave to the mind and its limited potential with our own notions.
When young elephants are captured in the forest, it is easy to tame their minds. The baby elephant is tied to a stake with a strong chain that it cannot break. Even when it grows into a mighty adult, easily able to break the chain, the elephant will not do so because its mind has become accustomed to not being able to break the chain. It is unable to set itself free from bondage even though it has greater physical strength. The conditioning becomes so strong that even when the chain is removed, the elephant will not try and escape.
Just like the elephants, if we become prisoners of our own mental conditioning and are not taught to know our true identity, we live in the worst kind of bondage. The bondage is not outside. It is inside. Regular chains can be broken with physical force, but the bondage of the mind can only be removed through better understanding. And although a teacher can help show us the way, ultimately it is through our own effort that we must break the bonds of our ignorance. Only the elephant can free itself from the notion that it cannot break the chain.
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