Living Freedom Archive

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Cliches are, because they are SO. In the minds of each and every one of us, for untold generations, have been the true answers which, when practiced, would immediately begin returning a world of ignorance, separation, fear, materialism, defense/offense, INSANITY, back into its original and ever-present sublime heavenly state of Reality, wholeness.

For the ground of Earth is the same ground of heavenly reality itself; we have merely obliterated on its surface the natural eternal glory and splendor with rampant, wanton, and widespread projections of our own unacknowledged ignorance, fear, selfishness, and greed in this third dimension of time/space.

1. One Potently Pithy Primary Perennial Principle Persistently Practiced Prevents Perpetual Proliferation of Painful Particular Personal and Planetary Predicaments.

2. Innate consciousness, a.k.a. God/Sublime Self, is the crux of all creation, all manifestation. This is the ‘kingdom of heaven, within.’ The ‘answer’, dear friend, is echoing within—the answer is echoing within.

3. This crucial seed-point of pure consciousness rests within each individual, in the innermost core, or ‘heart’ of each. This inviolate, un-tainted, subtle pure non-material core, is our own true identity, though it may be temporarily obscured by the surface precepts, perceptions and experiences of the earthly human ego/persona in incarnation.

4. A return to fully conscious integrated awareness with innate core identity requires no doing, but rather the ceasing of surface will-based doing. Our doing-ness is our destruction, our predicament. Our non-doing is our salvation, as we cease interfering with the innate balancing systems of earth and life.

5. ‘Will-based’ in this sense means arising from a false surface sense of limited ego/self/identity. All aspects of the societal-material infrastructure of ‘mammonomics’—i.e., of economics/finance, politics, religionism, nationalism, militarism, insular group identification and separations—all these arise from ignorant identification with a false surface ego, and are operated and perpetuated from a basic ongoing dynamic of fear. All these separative surface ideologies & institutions are the symptoms of the choice to live by feardom rather than freedom. The innate markers of fear’s dynamic are heaviness, density, tension, friction, contraction, all of which relate to blocked flow of energy. And the innate markers of freedom are lightness, relaxation, openness, fluidity.

6. Awakening to the true pure core awareness—free of surface identifications, as a little child is thereof free—is the cure and prevention of all humanity’s ills. Where there’s no ego/I/self identity around which to form an energy-blocking and fear-and-defense-inducing ego boundary, there’s no problem!

7. There are a million hacking at the external branches of darkness (ignorance) in endless frustrated futility for every *one* who has exposed the inner roots of darkness to the Light of Truth.

8. Whosoever awakens to this pure perennial inner presence is thereby reunited directly with one’s own true life authority…and need never again be mis-led by any external alleged “authority”, or fascist authoritarian ignoramus, i.e., the blind who are ever leading flocks of blind sheeple into death’s ditch. To the fool for whom a gun is the only tool, everything begins to look like a target.

9. A lesson is repeated until it is learned: we cannot serve/worship both the God of eternal Pure Reality Life-Light-Love-Truth-Peace-
Wholeness…AND simultaneously serve the temporal and divisive ‘gods’ of mammon, of worldly identity, fleeting status, dreams, and values…for it would be like trying to ride on the backs of two burros heading in different directions. While the former leads us to Innate Supernal Wholeness Reality, the latter leads merely to all manner of degradation, deterioration, division, destruction, death (all illusory, transitory).

10. The ‘American Dream’ is so named because you have to be asleep, in a dream-world, to believe in it; and it is no simple dream, but a convoluted nightmare of our own ignorant, selfish, fear-drenched creation & projections.

11. Friends, family, lovers, relations, neighbors, enemies, etc…these are all like people we meet on a bus journey, and in a dream—every one gets ON at a different stop, and every one gets OFF at a different stop; the only one who is always with you, the only one who never leaves you, is your own true innate sublime pure awareness…the one screen-writer, producer, & director of the movie of your life.

12. Energy flows and ‘reality’ grows where attention goes. Remember to focus upon that which is Real, in the deep stillness within—that which you most love, trust, cherish, adore…ignoring all else that is rumored to have any real existence.

13. Whatever we focus upon—whether in love, or in fear—we thereby create more of. Intelligence/Wisdom chooses to focus upon Light(truth)-Love-Life, Inner Tranquility. Only a flawed darkness of the inner lens could result in choosing to focus otherwise.

14. Better a “horrible” end than horrors without end. That which is Real and valuable is eternal; it is birthless, deathless; it is not of the relative realms. Anything which dissolves/dies, is not Real, has no Real existence, has no Real value. As the forms/creations of past ignorance/darkness steadily dissolve and fall away, this is a great blessing, frightful only to those who have yet forgotten their true universal identity, and who ignorantly believe that money provides any real life. Actually, money—being an externalization of the darker impulses of ignorance, separation, fear of lack, desire to control—is a construct which has led us away from real life, light, liberty, wholeness, truth.

15. Why pay the hand/fist that would smite you? Why feed the jaws that would bite you, or the police or jailer who would restrain you? Why would you support a transitory outer-worldly system that enforces the degradation and oppression of all life, lives, and living systems?

16. ‘Love’ is the answer…but it is NOT the answer until we come to KNOW and BE what Love really eternally is, and it is far beyond merely a four-letter word symbol, or an emotion. We will not know what Love is until we know who we really eternally are. And we will not know this until we are completely free of socially conditioned illusions. And we will not be completely free of illusions until we are completely aware, open. And we will not be completely aware & open until we are completely honest, relaxed, trusting, lightness itself…

17. The political/legal/nationalist/military mindset which informs the infrastructure of mammon represents the choice to put darkness before light, fear before honesty’s inner courage-trust-surrender, falsehood before truth, a closed heart before an open heart, division before wholeness, death before eternal life.

18. The choice of a path/way of falsehood & folly is antithetical to the path/way of Eternal Real Life-Light-Wholeness. That false choice is what brings us to this critical juncture on the human stage. Both the underlying dynamic and the ultimate destination of politics is war; war is designed and played out of, by, and for basically suicidal psychopathic egos having lost (temporarily) their sense of decency, sanity, divinity, unity, humanity. Politics is the main avenue of recruiting for Satan, while the second most popular avenue for hell’s recruits being that of sectarian authoritarian hierarchical patriarchal religious institutions.

19. No one, not even God, can change this ungodly political structure from within this political structure. The only way to be autonomous, true, peaceful, and free is to be…autonomous, true, peaceful, and free…

20. If one loves Love, then one must love freedom, for what is love but completely allowing, rather than controlling? And if one loves freedom, then one must love truth, for only truth sets everyone free…

21. And if you’re still not convinced, if you’re still worshiping the premises and princes of darkness, ignorance, fear, lies, nationalism, secrecy, violence, control…at least get your head far enough out of your ass to honestly recall that your earlier stated and sworn oath of duty and responsibility is but to protect and defend your homeland only. And when you are so deluded by intense falsehood, fear, hatred, and greed to extend your empire of fear, control and death to countries and lands not your own, you thereby announce the onset of your own demise…for you cannot even hold the home/center, and yet you drain your resources by attempting to extend your circumference of false power and death in all directions. And you have lied, claiming your military forces’ purpose to be the defense of this country, but instead your corruption has caused you to extend it to foment situations of offensive combat actions across the earthly globe.
You who yet serve the inrastructure of mammon/materialism/worldly status are children who have yet to learn the primary lessons of intelligent life: Love and (at least) let live. Do unto others what you would have done unto you, for it *will* be done just as you have done—if not in this life, then in subsequent life. As you give, so shall you receive; as you plant, so shall you harvest. These are the lessons/guides of utmost basic simplicity, logic, sanity, reality—and yet you have attempted to live in utter denial of these seed principles of real life.

Attempt to live by the sword/gun/bomb/jet/laser and so thereby determine and deliver your own demise likewise. Every ‘murder’—even a military murder—is actually a murder-suicide. Had you graduated from the kindergarten of the universe in your own consciousness, you would have known and begun acting upon this primary perennial principle long ago. The biggest lies of this infrastructure of mammon are that these fearsome impositions could in any way, shape, or form, serve life, truth, liberty, peace, sanity. Everywhere the infrastructure of mammon goes, it serves falsehood, oppression, enslavement, imprisonment, death. Saddest of all ironies, or perhaps most befitting, is that the beings most enslaved by mammon’s materialist/militaristic infrastructure are the very ones who serve in, and ‘profit’ by it. Some profit—the destruction of an entire living planet. Who profits by the crime is accomplice to the crime, and thereof held accountable.

Jeffry
Maui, Hawaii USA

Photo: Dr. Craig.

Freedom of the mind.
How do you free the mind?
Answer one question….who am I?
Is there one original thought in your answer?
What is an original thought?
Your truth, not someone else’s.
A truth is something you’ve lived, experienced, earned through great pain & suffering –
the tearing down of ego/personality [conditioned & influenced thought].

Where do you begin…where mind control began.
Religion.

Did you willingly join a man-made religion because it was your thought, or were you born into it?
Or did society pressure you by guilt into it because there they have numbers of sleep walkers?
How many thoughts are really yours?
Or are they thought-implants?
But because you’ve known them since birth, they appear as truth.
Or whole nations believe them to be true, so they must be?
Must be is not good enough! QUESTION EVERYTHING!!
Feel the fear of an original thought. How many do you repress?
Influenced thought is intellect.

Original thought is earned, usually painfully through FEELING & emotional reactions,
which are triggers to get you into your ocean, your unconscious.
But what is this pain?

A stripping of a false sense of security – the ego. A false sense of self. A packaged & sold reality.
Conditioned, influenced, infected, polluted, corrupted – where is the pure stream of thought? Your thought?

Buried, twisted and distorted so out of shape that you don\’t know it anymore, denied deep in
your polluted ocean – your unconscious; which drives everything personally and collectively.

To free the mind go to where society says is taboo. Where fear is conditioned over the doorway.
Go seek! Who am I?
How does the Universe work?
Go back to the pure stream….of the hidden waters within.

FEEL DON’T THINK!!! Know the difference!

To be concerned with man in his universal or cosmic aspect – one has to strip the conditioned and polluted field
of the unconscious – and this my friend is the initial and the hardest task of the “work”, the Great Work
[the unification of ego/personality with soul's pure voice, soul consciousness], which most only touch the surface
due to fear of letting go of the glamor of materialism which holds up the very insecure pillars of society these days
because conditioned man has led us all to be believe as worthy!

There is no greater farce in the Universe I tell you now, which is to the detriment of human evolvement.

Who are you again?

Karen McManus
Melbourne, Australia

Freedom is already liberated! Where ever you go, you can see freedom in its upmost. Anyone who causes fear, anyone who is scared, anyone who loves, anyone who hates, anyone who is ignorant,innocent, apathetic, energetic, and utterly stupid, anyone who causes pain,violence,death they all are expressing freedom in all its grandeur.

This is what freedom is to me, and i am free to express and think this way because of it. Some would call this ignorant, i would agree. Some may consider it “Wrong”, they are right. This is because they truly are as free as any person can be, for they actually have the choice to think that way.

To answer the UN question, i would have to say this: “You all have failed your countries, your people, your family, your friends, and your world. Get some god damn sense in your skulls and achieve peace. To do so isn’t that hard, you just have to try.” Considering that is for the UN General Assembly and all the World Leaders, I really wont explain myself to anyone else who questions it. And again, to “liberate our sense of freedom from ignorance, apathy, and fear” all you need to do is accept those notions as choices of the people, and choice is (in my book) what freedom is.

To “safeguard freedom” for future generations…that too is simple to achieve. To do so all you need do is educate, promote learning, and to hold true to the fact that everyone has a choice, and you must acknowledge the choices of others (for better or worse) for if you don’t then you too become one that bars freedom through ignorance.

This is a rant, read it, read it, ignore it, it really doesn’t matter to me because i have the freedom to do such things. Good day,Good night, Live, or Die if you want, its up to you for ,like everyone, you are free.

Sean Gillis
Alamo, Texas, United States

Freedom is love. As long as we live from a position of fear we will not feel love. Love is giving from the deepest level of conviction, with no return or benefit expected. Love is infinite consciousness. Love is pervasive, ever present in every being.

Oppression is ignorance. Oppression is suffering for the sake of physical gratification, attempting to steal people’s energy in order to feel free, to feel powerful.

Love is the acceptance of our purpose; to expand with the universe, with consciousness.

I embrace the spiritual revolution, that we may know ourselves within the context of infinity. That we may save this planet. That we may know our place in the cosmic evolution.

May our world leaders awaken from their narrow dream. May they experience true freedom in their inevitable quest for truth.

Our intention is critical, may our intention for peace, freedom, love become a quantum collective reality

by Ignacio Alvarez
Pomona USA

Photo Pandiyan

I believe freedom is the ability to walk without building obstructing views of oceans, prairies, mountains, forests, and other landscapes.

I believe freedom will come when we collectively in communities decide land is sacred and that people need open places to let their heart lighten, to let their eyes feel the gentle touch of small surprises (small flowers, tree frogs, fossilized sharks teeth in the sand, a skimmer feeding over shallow water), and to halt the chatter of their minds.

Everyday less space is available for ecosystems to perform their ecological services and this is terrible for the health of humanity. But, the greatest tragedy is we are losing the places that can provide us the mechanisms to heal our spirits.

Today at work we were unloading kayaks for the group coming and a small tree frog was in on of the kayaks. We stopped to put him into the tall marsh grasses and he was so very perfect (breathing and heart beating).

We were two biologists but, we thought how can this tiny tree frog exist and there not be world peace. Surely if everyone saw this they would want world peace. We can not liberate freedom without saving every piece of nature still here today. Nature is the perfect model of freedom and beauty.

We must have it to be free. Otherwise we will be lonely, sad, and fear filled. Every time we have less and more sprawling cities we have less chance at liberating freedom. I do want to give immense thanks to the daily experiences I have that liberate me – they are always gifts from this perfect sphere holding water, air, and land sustaining so many miracles of life and species diversity.

Freedom to me is biodiversity and its preservation.

by Karla Klay
Galveston, Texas
www.artistboat.org

For me, freedom begins in the childhoods that we, as parents, are responsible for. If we follow along with what society/culture has coerced us to believe, then our children will struggle and possibly never understand the meaning or value of freedom.

If we do whatever it takes to give them a childhood of unparalleled freedom, they will know themselves and naturally progress on the freedom track. They won’t be bogged down with asinine rules and regulations created to ensure docile obedient adults…adults who have no understanding of freedom.

My freedom lay in raising a free child, in ignoring the remarks of others telling me that I was ruining her life by giving her freedom. I felt freedom radiate through me as I sat, year after year, quietly watching my daughter grow and make decisions according to what she really felt and believed. Her choices came from her heart and were not influenced by what she thought a teacher, controlling parent or even a peer wanted.

Raising my unprocessed child was more freeing than anything I’ve ever done – before or since. And now she soars.

School is the antithesis of freedom. Remove that burden from your child’s life and they will experience true freedom, naturally entering the adult world with a strength that is lacking in today’s leaders.

by Valerie Fitzenreiter, author
The Unprocessed Child: Living without School
www.ubpub.com

People let’s look what’s really going down
In old Suvanna-bhumi there are gems in the ground
No rice on the table — oldest story in the book
Mercedes in a new city of generals and crooks
The Lady’s under lock and key, she says: “Freedom from fear!”
Monks and nuns are on the streets, shine their light through clouds of tears…

Chorus: Arise! Arise!

We’re standing side by side
And if you raise your weapons
We will look you in the eye
until the hate subsides
The eyes of the world
will look you in the eye….

Half a world away I’ve got a healthy pension planned
on slave labor and helicopters — and even heroin
Everything is normal here, everything is clean
Till I turn from 9 to 5 to that shining little screen
The Lady’s under lock and key, she says: “Freedom from fear!”
Monks and nuns out on the streets shine their light through clouds of tears…

Chorus : Arise! Arise!

We’re standing side by side
And if you raise your weapons
We will look you in the eye
until the fear subsides
The eyes of the world
will look you in the eye….

Everyone has the ears to hear the sound when people cry
Everyone’s a choice to make as we walk our own fine lines
So if I call you brother now, how will you reply?
No longer can we just abide in the “eye for an eye”!
The Lady’s under lock and key, she says: “Freedom from fear!”
Monks and nuns are on the street, shine that light through clouds of tears…

Chorus: Arise! Arise!

We’re standing side by side
And if you raise your weapons
We will look you in the eye
until the hate subsides
The eyes of the world
until the fear subsides
until those fires die…

The eyes of the world
The eyes of the world
The eyes of the world

by Martin Adam

Like Moses carrying a staff,
through clear cloth hangs tights an emblem United blue.
A season for change,
a journey for triumph,
though,
this regime takes no names.
We challenge our bodies,
the universal mind,
the existence of hunger,
a dangerous time.
When monks are taken down by force or by frown,
there’s no stopping now,
there’s no stopping now.
We’ll walk with our sandals,
we’ll walk with shoes,
fighting for our freedom,
DO-AYAY our blues.
We wear the colors of our fallen brothers,
sisters,
mothers,
fathers,
blood.
A yellow yearning for a yesterday that could.
White withers away as we stand and pray by this house with great power.
Freedom marches from your best friend’s heart our non-violent hour.

Don’t take a minute to realize,
don’t take a moment to run,
don’t take a genius to understand that we prefer education over the gun.

Stop funding the Chinese for splendor of our Nations lost democratic dream. The veto of the powerhouse can seam hurtful at the seams. We’ll walk a thousand miles if it help’s our brothers and sisters even a foot. Four years have gone by now, and 3000 villages perish in soot.

Now it is our Monks that burned. How dare they take the holy men? First rape was the season, now it’s fire over them. Clubs don’t seem like torture, when black dogs of darkness bark our disease. We’d do anything to stop them as we fade with our immune disease.

Please take that moment to veto, or oven our children’s fire, hey everyone has a hobby, for Than Shwe, freedom is his desire.

by Jeffrey Karl Hellman
Film, Photography, and Visual Arts
Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College
www.JeffreyHellman.com
www.HonoringHome.com
www.ICFAB.org