Friends:       

Believing in EGO Bonds interlocks the Clusters of Clinging:

At Savatthi the blessed Buddha once said:
Herein, friends, the untaught ordinary people,
who cannot recognize those who are Noble,
who are unskilled in the Teaching of the Nobles,
who cannot recognize those who are Worthy,
who are untrained in the Worthy teachings,
regard body as the self,
or regard the self as having a body,
or regard the body as being inside the self,
or regard the self as being inside the body ...
[False: "my body (frame or form) is" therefore "I am"] .. !!!
[True: Yes there exists a body form, but there exists no “I”!!!]
Such one is called one of the untaught ordinary people,
one fettered by the bonds of body,
one bound to the inner and the outer,
one who have not sighted the further shore,
one who have not sighted the beyond,
one who is born bound, who dies bound,
one who from this world goes to the next world beyond.
[again and again whether pleasant or painful…]

Such poor friend may also regard feeling as the self,
or regard the self as having feeling,
or regard feeling as being inside the self,
or regard the self as being inside feeling ...
[False: "I feel" therefore "I am"… A case of EGO-projection…]
[True: Yes there exists momentary feeling, but there exists no “I”…]
Such one is called one of the untaught ordinary people,
one fettered by the bonds of feeling,
one bound to the concepts of the internal and the external,
one who have not sighted the further shore,
one who have not sighted the beyond,
one who is born mentally bound, and who dies mentally bound,
one who from this world goes to the world beyond. [yet again]

Such poor friend may also regard perception as the self,
or regard the self as having perception, [Someone (an entity) perceives…]
or regard the perception as being inside the self,
or regard the self as being inside perception ...
[False: "I am" a summation of my experiences]
[True: Yes there exists momentary perception, but there exists no “I”!!!]
Such one is called one of the untaught ordinary people,
one fettered by the bonds to perception,
one bound to the notions of ‘the inner is own’ and ‘the outer is other’,
one who have not sighted the further shore,
one who have not sighted the beyond,
one who is born bound, who dies tied up to & by the clusters of clinging,
one who from this world goes to the world beyond. [monotonically]

Such poor friend may also regard Mental Constructions as the self,
or regard the self as having, possessing, or owning Mental Constructions,
or regard the Mental Constructions as being inside the self,
or regard the self as being inside the Mental Constructions ...
[False: "I am" my ideas or "my personality" is characterized by my ideas…]
[True: There are ideas but no fixed personality inside or outside these ideas!]
Such one is called one of the untaught ordinary people,
one fettered by the bonds of Mental Constructions,
one bound to the duality of the inner and the outer,
one who have not sighted the further shore,
one who have not sighted the beyond,
one who is born bound, and who dies bound, chained & constrained by ideas..
one who from this world goes to the world beyond. [endlessly ...]s

Such poor friend may regard consciousness as the self,
or regard the self as having a consciousness,
or regard the consciousness as being inside the self,
or regard the self as being inside the consciousness ...
[False: I am being aware therefore "I am", "I exists", "an Ego is real",]
[True: There is the state of Awareness, but no I, self or ego who is aware]
[There is indeed a filming camera, yet no-one that hold it or push the trigger!]
Such one is called one of the untaught ordinary people,
one fettered by the bonds of consciousness,
one bound to the inner and the outer,
one who have not sighted the further shore,
one who have not sighted the beyond,
one who is born bound, who dies bound,
one who from this world goes to the world beyond. [quite boring ...]

But, friends, the well-taught Noble disciple,
who indeed recognizes those who are Noble,
who is skilled in the Teaching of the Nobles,
who indeed recognizes those who are Worthy,
who is trained in the Worthy teachings,
Such Noble One does not imagine Body as being a Self,
neither does such Noble Friend regard this imagined Self as having a Body,
nor does such Noble Friend regard the Body as being inside any Self,
nor does such Noble Friend regard such faked Self as being inside the Body ...
This one, friends, is called a well-taught friend,
not fettered by the bounds of body,
nor bound to the inner nor the outer,
one who has sighted the further shore,
one who has sighted the beyond.
I tell you: Released is such Noble friend, from suffering.
Such Noble Friend does neither regard Feeling as beings the Self,
nor does he regard Perception as the Self,
nor does he regard Mental Constructions as the Self,
nor does he regard Consciousness as the Self ...
Such one, friends is called A Well-Taught Friend,
not regarding consciousness or any other quality or state as a self,
not fettered by the bounds of consciousness or any other quality or state,
nor bound to the inner nor the outer,
one who has indeed sighted the further shore,
one who has assuredly sighted the beyond.
Released is such Noble friend,
I declare, from all suffering ... !!!



Only that is true unbound autonomy, Yeah! Having broken the mental bonds!
Go for it, reach for it, keep on keeping on, on the way to it!
Attain it, since only that is real freedom ...

Source: Samyutta Nikāya on the Clusters of Clinging