There is No Movement Toward Freedom
The room was aglow, as the fire in the wood stove was ablaze. The flickering, gentle light from the fire caressed the stones in the large fireplace. The evening was silent not by the genuine silence of emptiness, but the silence after the storm of thought that has created its picture of pleasure, chased it, caught it and was devoured by it. One felt a deep sorrow of the pleasures and promises that are forever empty and superficial.
When choices are different from oneself they seem to have very little choice in them and are void of all freedom.
What does it really mean to be free? Humankind has moved in the momentum of explanations, reason, and the quest for why. None of these have led to being free. The brain knows it is caught in the prison of thinking and has tried every means to breakout out the hell it is in. It has tried yoga, fasting, religious belief, political revolution, economic policy and otherwise. But it all amounts to the same thing – we can’t get out of the prison we are in because we are both the prison and the prisoner. To remove oneself from one’s own imprisonment just adds a new room to the prison. To try to escape is futile because to escape the prison the prisoner must set the path to breakout, not realizing he is the prisoner and has no key. Therefore anything he finds is just the same movement or dance played to new music. We get caught up in the music and forgot we are doing the same old dance. Freedom, whatever it is, must be there, as it always was and will be. One can’t make a movement towards freedom. It is not to be sought after. It is there when all seeking and thought’s endless gathering has come to an end. One is where one is – to cease to be is freedom. That freedom has no root in time and space. Freedom is to move without any hindrance and is tied to nothing. All systems, methods, beliefs, processes or policies are built over time. Time means from one place to anther place. It is always forecast by thought and therefore illusion.
Coach bri