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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.
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. 

-Second thoughts- Considering trappings/cages/chains as Snapshots.

It is like a time-delay. The 'picture captured' is something gone already and connecting to that, either I or other, is steps removed. The thing is to come from a more essential, immediate place/mind.

That would be a chainless place.