The Zen of Advaita - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

learned. This “spiritual reframe”only adds more layers of deceptionto a system, rather than removinglayers.Hope: the greater the hope, themore compensated and “furtheraway” from the initial experience.To emphasize this societal“poison”, the famous myth andchildren’s story of Pandora’s Boxillustrates this with a twist.Pandora was given a box that shewas ordered not to open underany circumstances. Despite thiswarning, overcome by curiosityPandora opened the box. Upon doingso, the “evils” contained withinescaped into the world. Hope alsois released. As a child being toldthis story, all the bad ugly stufflike anger, hate, fear, greed,etc. explode out of the box, andat the bottom of the box is thisvirtuous beautiful thing calledhope. Of course as children we allfelt good, like hope prevails.However upon investigation hope isthe subtlest form of compensationand deception enabling us toresist experiencing what is.83