Post by withinsilence on Jun 6, 2018 16:14:19 GMT
Whatever you use to try and set yourself "psychologically/spiritually" free becomes your prison cell. Why? Because you are already free and have always been so. Simply, you cannot not be free, but you can believe you're not free, thus it is your own belief which imprisons you in bondage to a system to set you free. Do you see this, its circular, i.e. that which creates the false problem (belief that you need to be saved/freed) then offers a cure for it, (I will imprison myself with a belief system which will set me free) yet since the problem is false to begin with the cure must also be false. Its like the church creating the problem that you're a sinner, then they offer you the "free" cure for your sin, (which comes with an eternal price tag for its rejection-hence its not free) and thus keep you wrapped in this prison by creating the illusory problem and then providing the illusory cure for it. Hence, as long as you believe you're a sinner then you will seek the cure. But who was it that first told you that you were an evil sinner and why did you believe them? What exactly is sin? How did you end up with the attribute of sin? Did you create yourself? Did you ask to be created a sinful human being? So then, who could be at fault for your sinful nature?
Whatever system you use to set yourself free you are in bondage to, attached to/dependent upon (hence not free) that system. The system tells you that you must do this that or follow some dogma or doctrines to become free/saved. Yet, how is this not being a slave to a system, a slave of someone Else's ideas/thoughts/doctrines/dogmas? And, at what point in the system do you actually become free? When you believe you are, or when they say you are? Thus, is it not your own belief that you are already free that sets you free?
If you are free to believe you're not free, and free to join a system, free to submit your will to someone else to try and set you free, then how are you not already free? Really what you're doing is playing a game of hide and seek, you don't want to accept the fact that you're already free because with total freedom comes immense self responsibility. So, you join a group/system and THEY tell you what to do, what to believe, and that way if something goes wrong you're off the hook. Or you can blame them for not causing you to be free. Yet, you cannot get out of self responsibility. Who was it that chose to submit their will to someone else to try and set them free? You did, thus you're responsible for this decision. Why not just drop the game and see that you're already free? As Buddha stated; "None save us but ourselves" and one is saved when it sees that there is no one who is in need of being saved from anything.
Whatever system you use to set yourself free you are in bondage to, attached to/dependent upon (hence not free) that system. The system tells you that you must do this that or follow some dogma or doctrines to become free/saved. Yet, how is this not being a slave to a system, a slave of someone Else's ideas/thoughts/doctrines/dogmas? And, at what point in the system do you actually become free? When you believe you are, or when they say you are? Thus, is it not your own belief that you are already free that sets you free?
If you are free to believe you're not free, and free to join a system, free to submit your will to someone else to try and set you free, then how are you not already free? Really what you're doing is playing a game of hide and seek, you don't want to accept the fact that you're already free because with total freedom comes immense self responsibility. So, you join a group/system and THEY tell you what to do, what to believe, and that way if something goes wrong you're off the hook. Or you can blame them for not causing you to be free. Yet, you cannot get out of self responsibility. Who was it that chose to submit their will to someone else to try and set them free? You did, thus you're responsible for this decision. Why not just drop the game and see that you're already free? As Buddha stated; "None save us but ourselves" and one is saved when it sees that there is no one who is in need of being saved from anything.