Play as Being 27

• Aloft or on water, what surpasses a swan's beauty?
  Now its feet are entangled in weeds.
  Before it can be, it must break free.
  Thus speaks the Kuan Yin Oracle in one of her hundred poems. In Indian mythology, the swan (Sanskrit: hansa) is the symbol of the individual spirit or soul. Despite its beauty, the swan seems trapped. What are these weeds? And what does it mean for a swan to "be"? Is it just to reach its potential as a swan? To fly, to swim, to inspire other beings, or to bear or to sire young? Or is there a greater potential? Are the weeds of its own making? Is the separate and individual hansa not separate at all but just entangled in its own ignorance? Hmmm...