Freedom and Authority

People want to express their views and to seek validity for what they believe. It is difficult to fully understand the psychological dynamic that is behind our desire to express a belief and to have others think as we do. As a whole people are extremely insecure, that is one of the reasons they must hold on to a belief. A belief gives psychological substance to identity and the desire to be an entity that is secure in knowing. One has to go very deep to realize how connected ones beliefs are to fear, conflict and ultimately violence. It is easy to make the connection on a superficial level, but it involves quite another level of awareness to see and realize how this state of mind becomes a prison of fear. No one is immune from this fear. If you are a thinking and moving individual then you are in fear, it is an inescapable fact. The most difficult thing is to realize just how subtle fear is and how much ingrained in our psyche it is. When you see this in your self in the moment, not as a concept, but the actual experiencing of it in the moment, then it is possible to move beyond it. But a person must lay the foundation in order to see and be aware. One has to negate, so that freedom is a possibility. It takes passion and vulnerability to be experiencing total freedom. It is very simple in concept, but difficult in reality. Ones prison is the known, the familiar, the predictable. Freedom in a sense means insecurity, it means not knowing. A person can see the difficulty, to let go is to lose your life, the defined self. Only a very few have made the leap into this emptiness. Many are on the fringes, but one is either totally free or not free at all. But a person must understand that total freedom is not a state of permanency, it is re-realized in each moment of existence. It is not a realization (past tense), but "realizing" that is in the moment. It is an all encompassing awareness that does not define or seek to know. The reality of it does not involve choice or choosing. It is the simplicity of just seeing in the moment the actual reality of ones situation and how one is affected by the dynamic of what is and the minds desire for what should be. A person is stressed by daily life. We get caught up in activities and events that cause us to react psychologically. Because we are unaware that we are the cause of our own conflict and misery, we posit blame and responsibility on the other. On a very deep level this is connected to our desire to find relief in a belief, an escape from our responsibility. It is very difficult to live in total freedom, because to live as such is to take total responsibility for the reactive self.

Can we overcome the desire to be noteworthy, to have wealth, position, and title? Many people experience the despair that accompanies the desire to be a defined presence. Even those who are deemed "successful" experience extreme bouts of inadequacy and insecurity. We want to fill that hole in our psyche that is part of the minds desire for accomplishment and accumulation. The more you "acquire" psychologically and physically the more transparently superficial you become. The acquisitive mind is desperately seeking to have in order to be. A person is unable to realize that they are caught in thoughts illusion of knowing as the projection of a desired self that must be created through accumulation. This is the worlds conflict, a collective of conditioned minds that are constantly moving in a circle of fear. Minds that are seeking to acquire in order to alay fears. But seeking and the perceived acquisition of what is sought are the problem. It only leads one down the path of the addictive activity of acquisitive hegemony. It is the authority of one who possesses. One must realize that all authority is an illusion of ones conditioning. There is authority only when one allows or creates authority. As long as there is the authority of the known one can never realize the true freedom of the moment.