We are always thinking in terms of freedom from something – freedom from tyranny, freedom from attachment and so on. Actually, if you go into it very deeply, you will see that it is not freedom at all. In that, there is always either suppression, conformity or adjustment, because the opposite always contains its own opposite. Whereas freedom is something entirely different. Freedom has no opposite. If I want to see something very clearly, the mind must be totally free to observe. That freedom is not a reaction or a response to ‘what is’. From Public Talk 5, Sydney, 29 November 1970 Read more |