Can We Give This Freedom? - 30th March 2016

If there's this sense that 'I still want freedom,' it still remains a sense that 'I still want freedom.' Then sometimes it's a good idea to give freedom. What do I mean by this? We want freedom, but we are unwilling to give it. The outer world, the seeming outer world—if we can allow all appearances to appear just as they are. Everything which is appearing in our sensory perception, can we allow it to just be as it is? Can we give this freedom to the world? Can we give this freedom to our relationships? Can we give this freedom to our life circumstances?

Can we give this freedom to our seeming inner world of thoughts, allowing all thoughts to come and go, not resisting any of them? Can we give this freedom to our emotions and not interpreting and judging them, not resisting them, not saying 'this should come, this should not come'? If you can just allow all of this. Can we give this freedom to our attention to allow it to move about naturally? Can we give this freedom to our actions which are naturally arising as appearances within the same consciousness, instead of picking up guilt and remorse and pride?

So as long as there is a sense that there is an 'I' that wants freedom, let this 'I' give freedom. And then in this allowing, non-resistance, you will find that this 'I' never existed in the first place. There never was this doer, there never was this experiencer, there never was one who could get freedom, and there never was one who could give it. The simple allowing, the simple non-resistive space, is our most natural state. Allows even all states to come and go. The background of all of this movement, unchanging. Letting go of all sense of control and letting go of the sense of evaluation and judgment.

In this moment you are free, unless you decide to resist. And even then you are free actually, but you can pretend to be bound. May this openness be your natural direct experience and may this be the gift that you carry from this beautiful time that we have spent together. You.