DREAM LIKE BONDAGE
“Self-liberation” is like being bound in iron chains in a dream.
If you do not know you are dreaming,
- your bondage appears to be real,
you think it is real, - and your experience
seems to confirm that it is real.
But if you know you are dreaming,
you know that the iron chains do not truly exist, - and so you are not really bound by them.
The bondage does not truly exist.
In the dream, nothing needs to come along and set you free - you are free just as you are.
The dream experience,
even though it appears to be an experience of bondage, - is in fact self-liberated.
~ Khenpo Tsultrim Rinpoche