Report 23

This week we are asked:
SM "Do you find that you are chained to being the person you have been in the past?"
"This would be something to see lurking ... And release."

--First thoughts then would be that I find 'others' chained to my being the person they've seen me to be in the past, and wonder what true ethical "responsibility" is in this context. In many ways I have played part/parts well, on stages I felt I had access to. I darkened various other stages to give light to a few, feeling that this was the realm of possibility. Reliniquishing control, in a sense, lights come on and flood the place.

My sense is that through practice this is a non-issue somehow, especially a sense of 'others'  in relation to 'self' ? ... that going about trying to 'figure it out' or even manage by ordinary means, tangles it more. It is too easy to form ideas of others limitations and then confine oneself to those. 

No real choice but to keep at the heart where there is organic space and clarity can't help but come?