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Topic: The Inner Craving for True Freedom In the present world of constant stimulation the inner cry for freedom often goes unheeded. This cry, in fact, is not a part of our makeup but it has been accepted in general theory to be an inseparable part of life and being. Do we have to accept this lie even though others do? The truth is that this cry is an alerting signal requiring us to turn our attention to and try to understand our unfulfilled craving for inner stability and peace. Instead of trying to understand the nature of this yearning, we distract ourselves by various sets of behaviors because of which the cry of emptiness is constantly drowned out. But like a ball in a swimming pool, every time we forget to keep ourselves engaged, it pops up! And when this happens, what do we do? We go searching for something else to immerse ourselves in. The need for constant stimulation is a mask. If we look under it we see a wholly different scenario. The habitual need for excitement is a mistaken impulse. It is a way to distract ourselves from something we don??™t want to see. Freedom from this inner torment can allow us to experience the lasting satisfaction we seek. This makes it a necessity to explore the ideas of true freedom, because imagine spending most or all of your life in constant suffering while never ever finding what we really need i.e. true freedom. So let us explore what really is meant by true freedom. What is true freedom? True freedom means having the ability to free ourselves from the constant demands of the world and the above all the demands we place on ourselves unknowingly. True freedom is being able to slowly surrender ourselves to Life instead of being constantly motivated by our own unconscious and ignorant demands. Do you know what concepts are driving you? Do you understand the forces that guide your life? The people around us and the world in general adhere to certain concepts. The world would make us believe that the person is an empty hole of desire that needs to be always getting something to be full and happy. We adhere to this farce unknowingly and spend our whole lives waiting for those special events that we have told ourselves will make us happy. It is not our fault really; but yet we suffer because we have not directly challenged this belief about our real nature. Yes, change is hard. We cannot make it possible unless we have new concepts that produce real results. The root of the problem is linked as always to how we see ourselves and our perceptions of reality. Do we not see ourselves as lacking human beings who needs things/situations/people added to them to make them happy? At a point of time we start to wonder why happiness can be so whimsical. We start to suspect that maybe we have been handed the wrong textbook of life and that we are looking in the wrong mirror. This is the beginning of liberation. We start to question the popular theory that we are imperfect, incomplete beings and need something or someone external to solve the lack. This one concept alone, you can see, leads us over and over to unsuccessful relationships and unfulfilled desires. Think over these ideas. Maybe happiness is not temporary as it seems. Maybe we are perfect, just because we don??™t feel so does not mean that we are not. Imagine if we knew that we are already perfect and complete we would stop doing the many things we now do to compensate for this lack. Imagine the freedom when we no longer need others to constantly verify our worth to ourselves. That is freedom------ and it brings us into a whole new life a whole new way of living. Key lesson: The journey towards True Freedom begins when we understand that we have been handed down unworkable, impractical and limiting concepts about ourselves and of life. The very structure erected to make life fulfilling keeps us bound, gagged and incapable. Escape is possible only when we decide to seek for new structures and better foundations than the ones we have blindly acknowledged. http://archives.zinester.com/47795/41067.html For contact and feedback e-mail: fresca_grandi@yahoo.com |
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