Freedom Is The Only Thing

The reason that we squirm through life is because we do not have Freedom.

The reason that we do not have Freedom is because we are imprisoned.

What are we imprisoned by?

We are imprisoned by our attachment to the self.

Our likes, our dislikes, our thoughts about the way things should be, our demands, our cravings, our beliefs, our opinions, our siding with this group or that, and so on . . .

Each of these is a chain that binds.

Each of these is a bar that imprisons us.

One will naturally ask that if such things were shed, how would he or she do anything in the world?

What about success?

What about drive?

Understand this: Your most powerful drive is the drive to be Free.

What we seek first and foremost is Freedom from all problems.

The drive for success is itself a drive for freedom from the problem of being unsuccessful.

All things are reactionary.

I am still looking deeply into the matter so I am not certain if I have hit the bedrock of Truth about this. I believe I have. But I must be inquire further in order to be unequivocally certain about this.

At this stage of my exploration I will offer this:

What if everything we do, no matter how sacred and complete-in-itself it may seem, is simply a reaction to not being Free?

What if everything that we do in our lives is not for the thing itself. But, at the root of it, is a search for Freedom?

What if Freedom was behind All of it?

Success, achievement, relationships, happiness, motivation, and so forth. What if these things were born of a search for Freedom?

What if Freedom is the one and only thing a human being seeks for his entire life. But he calls it by so many confusing names that he goes on a wild goose chase in search of those “names” and thus never acquires the very thing he was seeking, which is Freedom?

Freedom from problems.

Freedom from turmoils.

Freedom from confusion.

Freedom from pain.

Freedom from fear.

Freedom from incessant thought.

Freedom from conflict.

Freedom from need.

Freedom from urges.

Freedom from compulsions.

Freedom from absolutely everything!

Could it be that the reason that choice doesn’t really exist in our lives is because in order to truly have choice, we must first have the Freedom to choose?

If you believe that we are free human beings who have the freedom to choose, I would challenge you upon that assertion.

Our every behavior, no matter how “choiceful” you may think it to be, is absolutely not done out of choice.

It is done out of compulsion.

This is why the prescriptive information from therapists and preists and gurus and psychologists is complete and utter nonsense.

They say, “You can choose to act this way or that. You can choose to be angry or not. It is your choice how to respond.”

If someone could really do such a thing on a consistent basis, there would never be any anger, jealously, hatred, conflict, and so forth.

No human intentionally chooses to be miserable.

Choice can only happen if one first has arrived at Freedom.

Which leads me to this:

A human being that does not have Freedom is doomed to a life of compulsion.

He is doomed to a reactive way of living. For the whole of his life, he will flinch at this, run from that, chase that, hide from this, strike at that.

Though he may live in a palace, he will live like an animal trapped in a cage.

I remember a lovely human being who was indeed trapped in a cage of her palatial mansion where she lived alone. As she walked down the marble hallways, the taps of her high heels was the only sound she heard. And she was being driven mad by her loneliness.

Every human being is trapped.

Trapped in conflict, trapped in the need to perform better, trapped in the need to succeed, trapped by the need not to lose, trapped by poverty, trapped by wealth, trapped by relationships . . .

Freedom is never accidental.

Without it, we have absolutely nothing.

A compulsive and reactive life is no different than the life of an insect.

At least an insect lives only a short while. We must go on living for decades.

The Freedom to not have a single stray thought.

The Freedom to never again have conflict.

The Freedom to never feel anxiety.

So many Freedoms that we simply do not have.

Without freedom, we are simply a collection of reflexive habits, reactions, opinions, and hopes.

We are slaves.

A slave can never truly live.

Never!

Truth be told, we do not even have the freedom to die.

Because of the compulsion to live.

There you have it.

Even life has become a compulsion.

Namaste.