We all are familiar or imagine what prison is supposed to look like. You see people within immense solid concrete walls with steel bars to keep the accused and sentenced. However, there is another kind of prison that’s within the minds of most of us. What this prison looks like is that we are identified with our suffering, our negative past history. Our mind is also hypnotized to follow the crowd to chase after the imaginary good things that’ll give us temporarily pleasures that don’t last very long; unfortunately, we continue to follow the shadows of what is true happiness.
The goal and purpose is to realize that we live in this prison and there must be a desire within us to find a way out. I found that the movie “Shaw-Shank-Redemption” is a classic example of how inmates becomes so identifies with their prison home that they get so use to it they fear of leaving. Andy, the main character saw himself a free man and didn’t’ identify with his prison environment and found a way out. You must want a way out in a desperate way; otherwise, you’ll remain stuck in your imagination and fantasy world which has become your prison.
Lewis