You Are Already Free

[Princess Arabia]

We try to control the mind because we try to control Reality. We are always looking for ways to control, not realizing there's nothing to control only experience - or not. Your mind is as free as a bird. It can imagine anything. It can visit la la land anytime it wants, dream anything it wants, so much so that we're constantly trying to put it under lock and key with restraints. We have to meditate our way out of freedom. This freedom gets so out of hand, it needs taming. Like a tiger in a zoo. Then we watch and observe it like the zoo attendees observe the animals and we try to feed it good food so it doesn't let loose on us and roam about freely.

Yes, this is freedom. Imagine all you want. Live in your imagination. Dream up anything, anywhere, anytime. This is what's real. Your outside world is just a reflection of the inner. Don't pay so much attention to the outside world because it is changing at speeds you can't even imagine. Why focus on things that are forever changing. Focus on your breath, presence, what's never changing and you will come to recognize what is Real. Always was, is and always will be. AWARENESS is forever, free and limitless. 

That's what you are. Now shine that light on the things that are limited and go experience what you have created without complaints because your experiences are appearing from the Awareness that you are and isn't bothered by any of it because it is free to go back home whenever it wants. 

This will not be accepted by some because we're so attached to the outer world and it's contents, and that's ok too. But think about all your worries from 5yrs ago and beyond and notice how they dissolved back into the light of Awareness from which they came. All your worries now will also dissolve back into the Ocean and new ripples will be formed. It is never ending. Do you want to acknowledge what you are, or your reflection. Pick one or both and see which one still remains - free to pick again and again and again, forever. Forever free.

[Princess Arabia]

2 hours ago, Squeekytoy said:

Until then... you're not free.

Who is the you.

[Yimpa]

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You Are Already Free

Is a free MMORPG really free if you have to pay for your internet and the house you live in?

[Yimpa]

7 minutes ago, Squeekytoy said:

@Princess Arabia this is one of those endless debates that we're not going to resolve here. I'll just say that neo advaita platitudes aren't terribly useful even if true. 

Strict labels and categorizations can be really deceptive, so watch out. I was pleasantly surprised by this entire workshop I attended yesterday. I was expecting to be completely judgmental and feeling like I was above everyone in the group, but my entire paradigm shifted when I dropped all of my limiting beliefs and actually attended with an open mind.

 

[Princess Arabia]

26 minutes ago, Squeekytoy said:

@Princess Arabia this is one of those endless debates that we're not going to resolve here. I'll just say that neo advaita platitudes aren't terribly useful even if true. 

I don't know about Advaita. People are always telling me about Advaita when I say stuff like this. I've heard the term but I don't practice it or get into those things. I suspected I would get flack for this post but I didn't care, I wrote it to myself. I don't really care how many of you want to keep dragging yourselves into your hell hole but I sure don't want to keep deluding myself that my experiences and life are permanent and consists of substance. They aren't and they don't consecutively. My Awareness gives them meaning and my focus projects and my attention manifests.

I'm not Spiritually bypassing either. There's nothing to bypass. My world is my imagination and I can imagine anything I want and so can you. Ok, so that's Neo Advita shit. That's what's not useful, calling freedom Neo Advaita. I say what's useful to me or not. Others will say wait till you burn your hand in the fire and start to scream like hell, you'll see whose free then. Then what! I scream, then what, I burn, then what I go to the hospital, then what, I'm in physical pain, then what, I heal, then what I go about my life, then what I leave this body. 

What do you want to tell me, that I must look outside at the world and determine my serenity from that. I must interact with people and hammer them down to please my little ego so things go my way. Yes, I will do all those things because of my conditioning and programming and temper tantrums. But guess what, I won't suffer for it. I won't look at the world in disgust and say it isn't fair because I'm not getting what I want. I won't go to bed at night worrying about how I'm going to get through the next day, I won't be traumatized and having to keep going to therapy for something that's in my head because I choose what to keep and make love with and what to discard. 

All of you can stay there and determine your life from what's going on on the outside and get attached to that. I'm not. It is insanity to get attached to the impermanent. Get sad yes, cry yes, be angry yes, be whatever but it dissolves quickly, not for years and years and years to the point of destroying my mental capacity to see the Love all around me and to feel presence that I am. 

Love you.

Edited January 22 by Princess Arabia

[Someone here]

7 hours ago, Princess Arabia said:

Your outside world is just a reflection of the inne

 

[strangelooper]

I would hardly call an existence with forced suffering freedom

[Princess Arabia]

2 hours ago, Someone here said:

 

Oh! That's a reflection of when I was a stripper with big hair and a customer paid to touch my ass and wanted his money back when the bouncer told him no touching. He scared the shit outta me, I was shedding blue tears. Hehe

[Someone here]

@Princess Arabia

42 minutes ago, Princess Arabia said:

Oh! That's a reflection of when I was a stripper with big hair and a customer paid to touch my ass and wanted his money back when the bouncer told him no touching. He scared the shit outta me, I was shedding blue tears. Hehe

pardon me ..if you don't want to answer just ignore the question (and I will delete it)...

Have you been involved in porn ?

[Princess Arabia]

51 minutes ago, Someone here said:

@Princess Arabia

pardon me ..if you don't want to answer just ignore the question (and I will delete it)...

Have you been involved in porn ?

No porn. Strippers aren't porn actors. I used to be an exotic dancer years ago. Strip club, dancing, people tipping then going home.

[Princess Arabia]

1 hour ago, strangelooper said:

I would hardly call an existence with forced suffering freedom

What the heck is forced suffering. The word suffering isn't enough now we have to add adjectives to it. What is unforced suffering.

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

12 hours ago, Princess Arabia said:

I'm not Spiritually bypassing either. There's nothing to bypass.

From an absolute perspective, this is true. From a relative perspective, there is a hell of a lot to bypass... like unresolved trauma, (mental) health problems, money problems, social isolation etc. None of these get resolved by repeating spiritual slogans, burning incense, meditating, taking psychedelics and/or watching video content by YouTube gurus.

And before you say that there is no such thing as "absolute" and "relative"... yup, that's exactly what a die-hard spiritual bypasser would say.

[nistake]

1 minute ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

From an absolute perspective, this is true. From a relative perspective, there is a hell of a lot to bypass... like unresolved trauma, (mental) health problems, money problems, social isolation etc. None of these get resolved by repeating spiritual slogans, burning incense, meditating, taking psychedelics and/or watching video content by YouTube gurus.

And before you say that there is no such thing as "absolute" and "relative"... yup, that's exactly what a die-hard spiritual bypasser would say.

*drops mic*

[Princess Arabia]

We make up names for everything. I'm not saying we don't have unresolved issues, and whatever else the ego wants to claim. I'm not saying we don't suffer, I'm not saying any of these things. I don't know why humans love to defend their sufferings and prolong their issues and keep living in hell. You tell me from the Absolute blah blah but from the relative blah blah. Now what, you have rent to pay and bills to pay and girlfriends to seek and the body craves things and the car broke down and the neighbor shot your dog and all the lists of contents that we go through in life. I have them too.

I can sit here and list a bunch of shit that i wish was different. I can sit here and tell you about my childhood, I can sit here and make up a story up on story why I'm scared of abandonment. I can sit here and tell you the ways I feel insecure, I can sit here and wallow in my fucking sorrows and make excuses as to why this is so and that is so. I can keep weaving that friggin' thread or toss that one out and start to weave a new one. I'm not denying anything. I'm not fucking saying life is not a challenge. I'm not saying everything is all peach deachy, i'm not saying any of these things. When these things emerge where do they emerge from. When we think about our problems, there is a space that lies between that thinking. It's either you want to live in a world where after one problem gets solved and another emerges and we just keep having problems after problems after problems or we say...wait a minute....enough already. Now see my post because I'm not going to repeat that.

If that's spiritual bypassing, then I'll bypass. Lets clean up our mess, yes, let's point out what's wrong yes, let's suffer yes because there will always be suffering. BUT WHY SUFFER OVER THE SUFFERING. Instead of wallowing over our sorrows and keep trying to FIX things, why not try to show ourselves some love. Accept ourselves. We can start to do that be recognizing that the contents of our lives are just that, contents. There will always be contents. There will always be experiences. There will always be challenges. There will always be pain and suffering. All filled with different contents. Now, it's up to you to wallow in the contents or see them as forever changing and that you are not these changing contents or keep suffering and being enslaved by the mind. I choose to free the mind. It's not that I literally made that choice, but I've moved mentally from my old frame of being just a human to the recognition that it's all just me and that whatever I assume myself to be is what I am in that moment and that the contents of what I'm experiencing is just that - contents. Now I'm free to experience whatever content arises because I am not defined by them.

[Princess Arabia]

4 hours ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

. None of these get resolved by repeating spiritual slogans, burning incense, meditating, taking psychedelics and/or watching video content by YouTube gurus.

None of them gets resolved by focusing on them either. None of them gets resolved by calling them problems. None of them gets resolved if you don't change the identity from which they emerged. When I say identity I don't mean saying, before I was a broke person now I'm a rich person so let's see how that's going to work. 

We like to assume that everyone else is like us. That everyone else must think the way we do. That everyone else is watching gurus and burning incense and whatever else and everyone else is seeking to please the ego and its worldly desires. We can't understand that there are some amongst us who sees the world for what it is, accepted it, and now have freed themselves from those chains. 

I refuse to be the crab in the pot of boiling water. I refuse to be dragged down into mental hell like everyone else. I will continue to live my life with all these challenges, watching YT videos if I choose, burning incense if I choose, repeating slogans if I choose, meditating if I choose, because if I stop doing those things (not that I'm doing all these things but I'm pointing to something here), if I stop because they won't solve the problem, then I am saying something else will. 

Nothing wrong in doing whatever the hell we want to do as long as we see it for what it is. We came here for an experience and that's what those things are. There is no-thing other than what I give power to that can solve any issues. It will emerge from my awareness once I've changed how I see who or what I am because I am the source from which everything comes and I'm aware of that. I'm aware that there is no power outside of me. I'm aware that it's all being generated by me. So I can watch all the YT videos I want because I stand in my awareness and they have no power to change anything unless I give them the power to. 

[AerisVahnEphelia]

@Yimpa 

But even after true liberation everything will be turned to be free.

You don't need any position or possessions they are all stories.

[James123]

On 1/22/2024 at 2:33 PM, Princess Arabia said:

We try to control the mind because we try to control Reality. We are always looking for ways to control, not realizing there's nothing to control only experience - or not. Your mind is as free as a bird. It can imagine anything. It can visit la la land anytime it wants, dream anything it wants, so much so that we're constantly trying to put it under lock and key with restraints. We have to meditate our way out of freedom. This freedom gets so out of hand, it needs taming. Like a tiger in a zoo. Then we watch and observe it like the zoo attendees observe the animals and we try to feed it good food so it doesn't let loose on us and roam about freely.

Yes, this is freedom. Imagine all you want. Live in your imagination. Dream up anything, anywhere, anytime. This is what's real. Your outside world is just a reflection of the inner. Don't pay so much attention to the outside world because it is changing at speeds you can't even imagine. Why focus on things that are forever changing. Focus on your breath, presence, what's never changing and you will come to recognize what is Real. Always was, is and always will be. AWARENESS is forever, free and limitless. 

That's what you are. Now shine that light on the things that are limited and go experience what you have created without complaints because your experiences are appearing from the Awareness that you are and isn't bothered by any of it because it is free to go back home whenever it wants. 

This will not be accepted by some because we're so attached to the outer world and it's contents, and that's ok too. But think about all your worries from 5yrs ago and beyond and notice how they dissolved back into the light of Awareness from which they came. All your worries now will also dissolve back into the Ocean and new ripples will be formed. It is never ending. Do you want to acknowledge what you are, or your reflection. Pick one or both and see which one still remains - free to pick again and again and again, forever. Forever free.

What if I am awake, liberation, enlightened, freedom, is the biggest illusion itself. What if , if there I no free will?

[Max1993]

@Princess Arabia You are right there is no "you" or free-will it is so freaking obvious.....

 

This is just an example but it really helps me so perhaps this may help others. If the Big Bang created this universe but had occurred in a different way let's say, that would obviously lead you to make different choices right? So if you follow the breadcrumb trail of your current thoughts backwards through time, in a sense you can say that the Big Bang had absolute will or more free will than you as it pushed the dominos to influence your will right now. 

If your thoughts right now are just the result of this domino effect, that means your thoughts and actions simply cannot be independent of this process. Even the moment you sit down to meditate, that is a process pre-ordained by the universe billions of years ago (there is no time but let's think in terms of causality). Not having free will does not mean that each thought and action won't evolve for the better, your thoughts and actions will evolve for the better I personally guarantee this. which is why we must trust the process and trust the universe. (You)niverse.

You cannot actually intervene here, if you reach your hand out and try to change something here, that too has been preordained. 

In a sense you have never even done anything as you are not the "doer" or the original pusher of the dominoes. Imagine a self aware movie or a virtual reality mask but without anyone actually wearing the mask! 

You are just left to surrender and observe while you are free-falling, even while you are reading this post. As God you have absolute will but right now you are not reading. Reading is simply happening! So trust. trust. trust. Of course the big bang is just a backstory and there is no time, however this is just an analogy that helps me. So sit in silence a little each day, trip a little, and enjoy the show! Nobody is watching it. The show itself is the body, the show itself is the self, without a self. The chair is empty. Does this make sense?

[Theplay]

@Max1993 I really enjoyed reading.

The big bang is a mind made worldview and as long as you are aware of that this is a very nice story to demonstrate that we have no free will.

Yet the concept "No free will" is still a mind made entity which too dissolves.

When Mooji was asked the question of free will he answered:

"Its both a yes and a no."

I think the correct answer will be "

"It's neither."

 

[Schizophonia]

Freewill is an illusion.

Willpower is an illusion.

Freedom is an illusion.

Contingency is an illusion.