Imagine a world in which every new baby was immediately strapped into a wheel chair shortly after being born. Every person in this strange world uses a wheel chair. They take perfectly good legs, strap them down, and pretend that they don’t exist. Sounds a little crazy, doesn’t it?
People
there have heard of a special thing called “walking” (awakening), but it is far
removed from their experience. There are some ancient books that talk about the
virtues of walking, but no one believes they can do it. They believe that walking
is for special people, walking Buddhas, if you will. The wheel chair is all
they know. It can be very useful, granted. It can also be a big hindrance.
