Why are freedom and the precise to self-determination such vital components in guaranteeing the profitable evolution of human consciousness? Why is the decision of freedom resounding so strongly inside human hearts all the world over throughout these turbulent occasions of transition?
As a method of answering these questions, we provide a daring assertion drawn from the Ageless Knowledge instructing and from our group expertise right here at Meditation Mount.
“With out the liberty to decide on our personal private path by means of life we can’t study the wanted classes of ‘wielding artistic energy and assuming duty for our actions’ by means of lived day by day experiences. With out this wanted freedom, the purpose of self-realization won’t be doable.”
We’re studying the ideas of being a creator inside a faculty housed throughout the Universe of Self. The essential classes of being a smart god and steward of our personal universe are these of Creativity and Duty. With out the spirit of freedom residing inside this classroom, we can’t give start to our personal home-grown knowledge.
Self-realization is an intimate internal technique of coming into resonant relationship with the One Life. Self-realization occurs step-by-step as we give start to recent consciousness that’s registered and embodied contained in the atoms of our complete being. No one can provide us self-realization – it’s a private ‘aha’ second of the grandest order. Any new consciousness is simply cultivated and at last born by means of our personal lived experiences and so with out the liberty to decide on and take care of the results of our personal decisions, we’ll by no means study what it means to be a co-creative agent of Life.
Painful as if the rising course of could also be at occasions, self-realization requires a area of unconditional freedom by which to flower. Freedom and the sovereignty of Self are inalienable rights that lead us inexorably onwards upon the trail of self-discovery and guarantee an eventual state of enlightenment will likely be achieved.
Seen from a macro-perspective, we’re a part of a fantastic cosmic experiment to see if the fragmented One Life can, by its personal volition, freely select to make its approach again to a higher realized state of pre-existing wholeness. We’re every a fractal of this One Life touring the lengthy and winding journey House. That is the story of the prodigal son and the prodigal daughter who, after selecting all the pieces that their private selves want, consciously select to return to the ‘Father’s Home’ – the true non secular homecoming that’s solely doable by means of the grace and reward of the liberty of selection.
This theme of freedom and self-determination is probably most keenly being felt throughout these tumultuous occasions throughout the area of politics. Ideally, politics is how we train our freedom by selecting the way in which by which we want to dwell collectively and govern ourselves. Nevertheless, as we view the current state of affairs on this planet, we could also be questioning simply what it means to dwell in a ‘free society’ and what it’ll truly take from all of us to manifest this desired future the place freedom reigns.
When the nice of the entire will not be the first organizing precept and the ‘few’ are tempted to safe and use the sources of the entire system for his or her private benefit and acquire, now we have an unjust and uncaring society on our palms.
Due to this fact, it might be well timed to remind ourselves of that highly effective declaration and prescient imaginative and prescient of freedom delivered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941 throughout his annual handle to Congress. FDR proposed the next 4 fundamental freedoms as the inspiration for a extra simply and wholesome world society.
“Sooner or later days, which we search to make safe, we sit up for a world based upon 4 important human freedoms.
The primary is freedom of speech and expression – all over the place on this planet.
The second is freedom of each individual to worship God in his personal approach – all over the place on this planet.
The third is freedom from need – which, translated into world phrases, means financial understandings which can safe to each nation a wholesome peacetime life for its inhabitants – all over the place on this planet.
The fourth is freedom from worry – which, translated into world phrases, means a worldwide discount of armaments to such some extent and in such an intensive vogue, that no nation will likely be able to commit an act of bodily aggression in opposition to any neighbor – wherever on this planet.”
So, what would our world seem like immediately if every of us had been to behave upon this radical problem and dwell in keeping with the spirit of those 4 Freedoms?
We might even draw up a private Constitution of Freedom that may sound one thing like this:
“I select to dwell my life encouraging others to freely specific themselves in speech and motion.
I select to dwell my life welcoming others to worship God in their very own approach.
I select to dwell my life impressed by a spirit of generosity and justice in order that others should not disadvantaged of their authentic wants and rights.
I select to stop all aggression in direction of others and to dwell my life based mostly upon love, goodwill and harmlessness.”
We’re witnessing a sobering reminder that when freedom of selection and the precise of self-determination are absent then now we have the rise of totalitarianism and dictatorship. That is the jail by which we’re presently incarcerated.
Within the Ageless Knowledge instructing the monumental collective activity going through us is known as ‘liberating the prisoners of the planet’ – liberating ourselves from the fabric and emotional addictions and stuck beliefs that, within the phrases of the Buddha, preserve us ‘chained to the wheel of re-birth’.
We’re studying to face in our personal non secular sovereignty – to make day by day decisions that help a higher goal and serve all beings. It’s a lengthy and rocky highway to freedom and self-realization. We’re strolling it collectively one step at a time and sooner or later at a time.
Might we lastly get up and perceive that serving the Widespread Good is the best freedom we every possess.
Within the Spirit of Freedom,
Michael Lindfield
Board President
Meditation Mount
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