What Do I Mean When I Say Freedom Only?

Freedom can be of three types, and these three types must be well understood. The first is freedom from, the second is freedom from and the third is just freedom - neither from nor from. The first, freedom from, is a reaction. It is guided by the past, you are fighting the past, you want to get rid of it, you are obsessed with it.

Psychoanalysis tries to give you that freedom, freedom from - past traumas, childhood wounds. Primal therapy is based primarily on the past. You have to go backwards to free yourself from the past, you have to reach the first primal scream, then you will be free. Freedom means - for primal therapy, psychoanalysis and other therapies - that the past has to be discarded. You have to fight him, you have to manage in some way, get rid of the past, then you will be free.

When it comes to freedom, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud are not opposed to each other, both are in agreement. Karl Marx says that the person has to become free from the past, from all past social structures, economic structures. Its focus is political; Freud 's approach is psychological, but both are rooted in the idea of ​​freedom.

All political reforms are reactions - and when you react you are never free. This must be understood. This gives you only an appearance of freedom, but never true freedom. From the reaction, total freedom is not possible. From the reaction, true freedom is not possible. And total freedom alone is true freedom.

You can go against the past, but just by being against it you are captured through the back door. That is why it has happened repeatedly that, whoever you are fighting with, you become like him. Choose your enemies very carefully, because you will be determined by them! Fighting them, you will obviously have to learn their strategies. You will have to learn their tactics, you will have to learn their way. Slowly, slowly, enemies become very similar - more similar than friends ...

The second idea is freedom for, which is oriented towards the future. The first is political, the second is more poetic, visionary, utopian. Many people have experienced this too, but this is also not possible, because future-oriented you cannot live in the present - and you has to live in the present. You don't live in the past, you don't live in the future, you have to live in the present.

Visionaries only imagine They imagined beautiful utopias, but these utopias never come true, they cannot come true.

If you react to the past, you are determined by the past. If you forget the past and look to the future, you are still being guided by the past, only you are not aware of it. Looking to the future you dream beautiful dreams, but they cannot change reality. The reality remains the same, dreams are very ineffective, powerless.

The first, freedom from, is a reaction. The second, freedom for, is revolution. The third, freedom alone, is rebellion. It is oriented towards the present. The first is political, the second is poetic, the third is mystical, religious.

What do I mean when I say just freedom? Neither for or against, without past, without future, just being here, just living moment by moment without ideology, without utopia.

The real sannyasin, the true mystic, is not against the past, and is not for the future. He is so totally absorbed by the present that he has neither time nor energy, for the past and the future. That is how the rebel is born.

The rebel is the most beautiful phenomenon in the world. Buddha is a rebel, Jesus is also, Atisha is a rebel, Kabir is also. They are rebels. You will misinterpret them if you think they were revolutionaries; they were not. Nor were they reactionary. Your orientation is totally different, your orientation is now, here. They do not live by any ideal, and they do not live against any ideal. They have no idea, there is no ideology in their consciousness.

The sheer purity of this moment - they live it, they enjoy it, they sing it, they dance it. And when the next moment comes, they live the next moment with the same joy, with the same joy. They move from moment to moment, they don't plan in advance.