December 19, 2010; Tricycle Daily Dharma; http://www.tricycle.com/
What is True Freedom?
"When I look for freedom today I find it not in fantasy or
in dreams, but in my sitting practice. What kind of freedom is it that exists
in doing nothing?
It is the freedom not to interfere or react. It is the
freedom to merely observe. I don’t have to judge the trauma that arises in
mind. I don’t have to get involved with the hundred narratives that might try
to occupy my mind during the day.
In not clinging to thoughts and ideas, wants and desires,
hatreds and resentments, the bondages of my most negative thoughts and emotions
have faded into a haze that still arises but no longer dominates my life. I
have found freedom: it is the freedom of nonattachment, the freedom to not
cling and to not resist. It is the freedom to allow myself to be with myself."
- Ananda Baltrunas, "A Prison of Desire"
2 comments:
I have found a similarish freedom as a result of taking happy pills (Fluoxetine). Like Ananda I have found that “my most negative thoughts and emotions have faded into a haze that still arises but no longer dominates my life.” But perhaps some hazes are more wholesome than others!
I am in bondage. I yearn to be free. I am confused. At least I have taken action about it.
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