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

1- Freedom doesn’t exist as an exterior phenomena to me, it exists when I feel it as an interior to myself.

2- So no one can give me my Freedom, until I discover it in my inner self.

3- Freedom is a complex concept. It’s complexity exists before the presence of “the other”.

4- I fasten myself in my habits. I fasten myself in my believes. I fasten myself in my desires and my intents. I’m a prisoner of myself.

5- I’m a prisoner of myself, a prisoner of my language, the language which bears the weight of history, the shadow of “the other”.

6- The complexity grows when I feel “the other”, whatever as a present or absent. I fasten him/her with all my intents, with all my believes. Also with my language.

7- I’m not free about my desires toward you. You too. It’s the authority, the certainty of our presence. The reality is another prison. A prison with the shadows of impossibles. The bitterness of possibles. We live in monologues. We lives in monolife. We are isles.

8- The complexity grows when I feel “the other”. “The other” as concepts and Ideas. “The other” as mankind. Concepts like governments, society, and history. Also mankind like lovers, beloveds… .

9- Concepts are the abstracts of us. The abstracts which reflect the light and the darkness of us who are its Concretion.

Now let’s talk about freedom.

You are right when you say: Without your freedom, there is no true freedom in this world. But it’s too difficult for mankind.
When you shake your hands, something in the history changes. I think it has no meaning when we say: try to free the others.

As a poetical and philosophical concept, I don’t believe that you can help me. No one can help me but myself. No one can help you but yourself.

But our shadows live in concepts, the concept of society, the concept of government. And you are right in this cosmos, the non-existent cosmos.

It was forbidden for my Master too, for about 15 years, no books of him could be appeared. A forbidden meaning.

There’s friends who published his works abroad.

It is not possible for me to publish my works in my land, because I write in the crystal of Despair. I write in the madness of Eros…

There are friends who publish my works abroad.

Yes, but they are my shadow, they are our shadows. I try to clear my shadow.

Freedom is a complex meaning.

by Mohsen Emadi
Poet/translator
Tehran, Iran

We are all born free – then slowly, we begin to build our prisons, with more than a little help from society. We take a journey in life, away from the kingdom, out into the world, yet one day we can return to freedom.

Free will is a great gift. What a different game this life would be if humans were forced to be good, forced to do the right thing. How much more meaningful it is when we take the steps ourselves, when we choose liberation, when we choose to unpack all the filters and cultural limitations that stand in the way of us and freedom.

I’m not talking about the kind of freedom George Bush is always going on about – his greatly touted freedom, for which he will lay waste to thousands of innocent humans – is by and large a chimera. Freedom does not mean the right to buy more stuff. Freedom does not mean another 100 channels of television.

Freedom means a heart, soul and mind that is liberated from illusion. Liberated from the controlling clutches of the ego. Liberated from the unconscious drives of hatred, aggression, fear, desire, attachment, desperate grasping, that turns us into puppets on a string.

The puppeteer is the ego. Cut the strings, and you will be free.

Free from the constant looping refrains of the past, and free from the desperate striving for the future. Freedom is, in fact, surrender. Surrender, unconditionally, to what ‘is.’

A human being in a prison cell on death row has the ability to be free. It’s not conditional on circumstance. In fact, time and again I have seen incredible breakthroughs happen in the hearts of those who have every reason to contract into a tight ball of fear.

For some, the opposite happens in the face of crisis – an opening magically occurs, and true freedom is experienced. Victor Frankl, in Man’s Search for Meaning, wrote that everything can be taken away from us but one thing – the freedom to choose the way we respond to whatever comes our way.

He was referring, in this case, to those remarkable survivors of Auschwitz who were somehow able to come through with their spirits intact,and even transformed.

With these kind of remarkable examples, how can we, in our own lives, with our own smaller (though by no means unimportant problems), not choose to be free? And once we are free, once we are truly autonomous, we will very naturally be impelled to take action in this world to help others become free, in whatever way is our own true path.

Choose to be free – the planet is depending on you.

by Velcrow Ripper
Documentary Filmmaker
Toronto, Canada
www.fiercelight.org

In contrast, events in Burma have been cause for great sorrow. Plainly, the greatest source of violence in our world is the existence of large military establishments. The very presence of a powerful military force in a country risks destroying the happiness of its people.

In their elections and the demonstrations that followed, the Burmese people simply expressed their human need for freedom, truth and democracy. The shocking subsequent and continuing brutal suppression of these simple aspirations will ultimately prove counterproductive. Those who practice deception and the use of force may gain considerable success in the short term, but eventually they will be overthrown.

In the past, oppressed people have always resorted to violence in their struggle to be free.

In Burma, following in the footsteps of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has led a peaceful and nonviolent campaign for democracy. The practice of nonviolence requires determination, which Suu Kyi and her supporters have shown in full measure.

By its nature, nonviolent protest also depends on patience. In this regard, I pray that those who are struggling for democracy in Burma, despite the brutality of their suppression and the struggle they have before them, always remain peaceful.

Their success will depend on strong international support. Signs of late that this is already having some effect should encourage further efforts in the United Nations and similar bodies to influence Burma’s military rulers.

In rallying such support, increasing awareness is crucial. To this end, the work of the Burma Project USA/Canada and the publication of [Campaign Director] Alan Clements’ book [s] [on Burma's struggle for freedom], are most valuable.

I offer my prayers, that conflict, killing and oppression will cease and that genuine peace will come to prevail throughout the troubled regions of Southeast Asia.

by The Dalai Lama
Spiritual / Political Leader of Tibet
August 1992