Freedom in the Absolute

What is the reality of total freedom? Can we define something that the mind can never really "know"? If in the moment we realize that we are a conditioned entity and that our lives are essentially a projected repetition of what has been, then what is the nature of a true state of freedom? It is not in the nature of dualistic thought to "let go" of things. We accumulate so that we can define and exist in the illusion of the known. If you look carefully and attentively at the movement of the dualistic self you may have the realization that your actual life is not about freedom. Not until death is there a total release of all that has been accumulated. But what if it were possible to be "experiencing" death while still living? Dieing to the moment so that there is no residual self that is seeking to influence the truth of each succeeding moment. It is leaving behind the baggage of the known which weights us down with the conflict and confusion of opinion and conclusion. It is much more than just having an "open mind" about things. It is having "no mind" which is the reality of not comparing and judging. Such a state of existence allows a new intelligence to operate. One in which there is freedom to understand the reality of what is without condemnation or approval. One is always in expectation so one is attached to the ideals of a psyche that exist in the duality of position and opposition. It is differentiation, as the me and the other or not me. It is the conflict of division which has its origins in the minds desire to acquire and accumulate. What you own, materially or psychologically, also owns you to an extent that one cannot possibly be free. You are controlled by what you accumulate, it is your prison. You can readily see this phenomenon in your life and can understand it conceptually, but can you go deep into the psyche, to the origin of your desire. Unless you can realize something that is not an "escape" but an understanding, you will not realize the truth of freedom. Freedom that is not an idealistic acquisition. If you are wanting me to write down all the answers so that you can follow some path, or find some formula, then you have missed the point. One has to explore ones own psyche and see in the moment the reality of the self that is caught in this quagmire of conflict and confusion. A big part of it is the mind that is seeking. Realize that seeking and what you seek are the illusion of a mind that is a projection of what one knows. It is ones conditioned consciousness. You cannot escape it, you can only understand its origin. That understanding is its dissipation. It is understanding that is not the result of knowledge but of "allowing" that is an absence of the discriminating self. It is direct seeing that is not connected to any former knowing or ideological formulation. If you have realized the true self (total freedom) directly then you will not be able to define it or compare it to any previous experience. Memory will fail to capture it. When the dualistic self tries to remember, it will be unable to. It will not be able to conceptualize. The truth of it remains outside ones conditioned consciousness. So it is a moment to moment realization that is ever the new. One can create similes to try and explain but the actual reality of it only exist in the absolute moment. That moment is the direct experiencing of an unconditioned and selfless consciousness that sees the totality of what is. It is a consciousness that is outside a self that is consumed with the reactive projection of what should be.

A person can look and not see because the mind is cluttered with all sorts of ideas that pop up as a result of association. Because you are attached you only know attachment, it is your conditioned way of living. So every attempt at realizing true freedom only results in further attachment. One has to see ones own psyche in action, in the moment, before a person can truly realize the extent of ones imprisonment. If you truly see in the moment and realize just how controlled you are then that is the release. You don't have to think about it and formulate some plan of action or follow some useless formula. This is what "religious" people do, they are seekers that are caught in self perpetuating conflict. Freedom in the absolute, means freedom from everything that is the self generated.