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True freedom is absolute, not relative
by Brian Thompson.
As long as you believe that you are free “from” something, then you are not truly free at all. True freedom is absolute, not relative. It is not conditioned by anything.
There is only one solution for total liberation and that is to dissolve any idea of a “me” who thinks that it isn’t already free to begin with.
The only thing standing between you and happiness is a thought, and that thought is the concept of a “me” who believes it is somehow lacking, incomplete, unhappy, or unworthy. It is bound only by itself.
The troublesome me-thought is perpetuated only through its relentless search for relevance, purpose, pleasure and significance. Ironically, when it is emptied of its searching, all meaning is found.
Unqualified freedom can only be realized when you no longer self-identify with the “me” who enslaves itself through its endless grasping. As long as “you” remain relative, your sense of well-being will continue to be conditioned by the subjective concepts you believe in.
When the identity of the conceptual mind’s false “me” is no longer sustained through its endless story-telling, the imagined self will be exposed to be the very prison in which it was confined.
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Source: http://www.phoenixisrisen.co.uk/?p=10558
