When you turn your own chess game upside down...or else sail towards...
Sailing towards where? Towards our inner freedom.
Personal freedom is not given, it does not come in a gift wrapping, it is not asked for, it is not shared, it is not sold or bought, it is not shouted, it is not cut into pieces, it has no imitations or copies.
Personal freedom is being conquered.
With effort, mental and spiritual. By allowing yourself to fall, to get dirty, to sweat, to get disappointed, to dive and emerge, to cry uncontrollably, to laugh like a child, to love like a child, to claim, to make mistakes. To let yourself "be" and not to do.
To stand in your heartbeat, to dare, to not ask permission to dream, to follow the invisible thread, Ariadne's thread to get out of the labyrinth, to keep your attention focused on unraveling your own tangle.
Only then will the Minotaur disintegrate, cease to exist, and fear will remain empty, without an object.
And as the monk says in the parable from Henri Hugo's "The Laughter of the Frog": "You must first conquer fear. Then attention can come, from attention peace of heart, from peace of heart friendship for all that lives on Earth. My friend, you have just turned your own chess game upside down."
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