That Illusive Freedom

We were talking about freedom. They wanted to have freedom as a concept to be arrived at, a state of mind that would allow them to accomplish unity and peace. I said how will you arrive and what is the basis for a state of peace? Can the mind that is in illusion ever realize peace that is not a concept based on knowing? In order for a person to be totally free, because you are either totally free or not free at all, one needs to realize the origin of all that creates the need for attachment and identification. It is difficult because the mind is consumed and obsessed with its desire and need for a defined reality. To define is to create conceptual limitation. The conceptual breaks down unity and integration into the calculated disintegration of a mind that interprets what is through the illusion of what was (the known). Unless you can see this clearly in the moment then ones understanding will be superficial. To see in the moment means experiencing that is not tied to knowledge as belief. So it is never experience, it is experiencing, which is always in the absolute moment. Anything else is the complexity of minds need to understand through comparison, conclusion and ultimately reaction based on its own projected self illusion.

The mind wants to attach its self to some belief so that it can escape into some future state of peace and unity. But that future state never really comes, because their is always another thing to be accomplished that will move one along in the quest for the spiritual. One must see that this activity is the breeding of self illusion. It is minds way of escaping by projecting the fantasy of the desired. We create this fantasy through our association with religious practices and those who we give authority to. Freedom and unity can only be realized through the negation of what it is we think we know. All must be negated so that the truth of the moment can be realized. It is not outside yourself. To look within and find the origin of all conflict is the beginning of illumination that goes beyond all that is outside the self. To go beyond all concepts of the spiritual.

A person must understand that true freedom is not freedom from something, it is rather an acceptance, that is the release of all that binds one to knowing and the known. Belief in a self that knows is the beginning of the ignorance of self illusion. A person must realize that this state of ignorance is the result of seeking that has lead one to be drugged and brainwashed into a stupor of religious, social and political apathy. It is what causes a person to be trapped in a self adjusting psyche that blindly justifies its beliefs no matter the reality. To be totally free is to realize that one is brainwashed by all of ones accumulations. To be free is to jump into the unknown without a parachute of belief or reliance on any deity. It is very difficult, but in the end it is what brings one to a place of total peace. With this peace comes understanding that is not the result of what you have learned or been taught. Total freedom is not easy. It means giving up all that you are identified with, all you investments in life, especially the religious. It takes a person who questions everything. A person who has come to a place of exhaustion with all self induced conflict. A catalyst that finally breaks you free and makes you see the folly of all that you believe in.

With total freedom, comes total responsibility, they are one in the same. That responsibility is not one of a religious or political nature. It is a responsibility to ensure that one emanates peace and love to all existence. A person has to be careful, total freedom is formidable, nothing can touch it. It is immune to Karmic law and all the practices of human illusion. Total freedom is not illumination, but it is the door to that realization which is moment to moment.