A monk asked Shito “How does one become free?”. Shito replied, “Who has bound you?”

That’s the question, who binds you? Don’t look outside, look into the mind, investigate the opinionated mind. Become familiar with its opinions and judgments; then you wont be so vulnerable to them. Our effort is to release the mind from its ordinary opinions and see revealed a new universe. Nothing binds us but the habituated mind. 

Katherine  Thanas, The Truth of This Life