We Live In A Prison Of Ideas

Ideas do not actually exist. The prison doesn’t actually exist either, but we live our life based on ideas, and so we sit in our cells and either complain or say how wonderful it all is.

We can be liberated at any moment, by just letting go of the ideas we’ve acquired from the other inmates whom we are trying to impress. We may get a glimpse of the state we live in but, through habit, we are back to our old tricks and routines in the next moment.

(There is a famous sweary and generous chef 😀 who goes to failing restaurants to help them succeed. He’s very tough, but shows them how to run their business properly. Unfortunately, most then fail because they return to their old habitual ways. It’s quite a lesson!)

Change takes honest effort of letting go; we start seeing clearly, rather than believing we are perfect. Once we realise that all the inmates ever talk about is their history and their future (which don’t exist) we are free not do the same. Change is then effortless.