For thousands of years the humanity has been fighting for freedom.
Let`s think what is the meaning of “fight for the freedom”?
Freedom from what exactly?
For achieving what goal?
Is freedom the means or the goal?
What ways to freedom are worthy of man?
What do you think about it?
Does the freedom exist by itself without the need to clarify
from what such freedom is and for what it is?
The Universe is vast and infinite.
Any limited part of the Universe, whether a planet or a star cluster or even a galaxy,
depends on the rest of the Universe.
Where, when and what can be absolutely free in the Universe???
I do not find it possible.
Nothing, nowhere, never.
Everything is interconnected in the Universe
and one part always depends on the whole.
And what do you think of that?
Where, when and what can be absolutely free in the Universe?
I think that only the Universe itself as a whole can be free in the Universe.
And no one else, never and nowhere else.
All other things are interconnected and interact permanently.
So, why do so many people with such incredible persistence fight
for the Freedom which does not exist?
What is your opinion?
Why do revolutions happen where people kill each other
with incredible cruelty for the sake of the freedom?
Why do military conflicts happen where again people kill
other human beings for the sake of the freedom?
And you yourself do certainly want freedom too
and you are ready to fight for it, don`t you?
And you have already thought
what kind of freedom to look for, haven`t you?
Freedom from what?
Freedom for what?
Have you ever compared
two fundamentally different ways for achieving freedom?
The first of them is political, economic.
He maintains that only good laws and big money can give one freedom.
Do you also think that only good laws and big money can give a person Freedom?
He says that for the sake of such freedom
man has the right and even the obligation to fight throughout his life.
And if it is necessary, man has the right and even the obligation
to kill other people to achieve Freedom.
Do you think that man has the right and the obligation
to kill other people for the sake of Freedom?
The second way to freedom for humans is self-knowledge,
the search for the meaning of life,
the way of attaining wisdom.
He argues that man's ability
to be sincere to himself gives freedom to him.
That knowing well himself and the world,
the ability to look into the essence of phenomena and events
and understanding himself and the others bring a man freedom.
Does the ability to be sincere with himself give a man freedom?
Does knowing one's own self and the world perfectly give one freedom?
Does one's ability to look into the essence of phenomena and events,
understanding oneself and the others give one freedom?
Don't you think that the second way to freedom
has been completely forgotten in some strange manner?
Isn`t it surprising that almost no one pays attention to it?
In the meantime, isn't it self-knowledge,
the search for the meaning of life,
the desire for wisdom that can bring true freedom?
What do you think about it?
Why has this alternative, which does not require any victims,
does not force one to fight against others, to kill their own kind,
to sacrifice their lives, been completely forgotten?
I find it very strange.
I don't believe that any laws can bring freedom to people,
who do not know themselves, do not wish to look for the meaning of their own existence.
What is your opinion?
Can laws bring freedom to people who don't know their own selves,
don't wish to search for the meaning of their own existence?
I have never come across any law in my life which can make a fool wise.
I have never heard of any political party which succeeded in doing so.
Neither have I met a single person whom laws would prevent
from engaging in self-reflection.
Whom laws prevented to free themselves from being slave to their own passions,
to become free from greed and vanity, from stupidity and self-deception.
And what is your own path to freedom?
Are you looking for it in laws and in money?
Or are you looking for your own freedom
in your own thoughts and feelings in your own observations and reflections?
Thinking about who you are, what your abilities and options are,
what the meaning of your existence and your natural predestination is?
Are you looking for freedom in laws and in money?
Or in your own observations and thoughts?
Contemplating about which of your qualities bring you benefits
and correspond with your natural predestination
and what impedes and makes you refuse from the better for the sake of worse?
Are you looking for freedom from greed or do you think
that greed will help you earn a lot of money and become free?
Have you ever seen anyone who has become free
while remaining greedy, remaining slave to his own greed?
Are you looking for freedom from vanity or do you think
that vanity will help you gain power and become free?
Have you ever seen anyone who has become free
while remaining slave to his own vanity?
Don't you think that it is worth thinking of where it is better
to look for freedom for yourself and for your loved ones?
In order not to be deceived, not to become a fanatical slave to your own weaknesses,
not to be killed in a battle which purpose is from the outset fallacy.
Self-knowledge, the desire for wisdom,
for understanding of one's own self, of the world, of other people,
the desire to comprehend the meaning of one's own existence
and to realize one's best natural predestination
is the way to freedom and this deserves your consideration.
Remember it!
Nothing will hinder you on the way to real freedom!
Neither the authorities.
Nоr the laws.
Nor wealth nor the lack of money.
On this way of yours, you can reach the very summit
of the freedom that can be ever achieved.
You can learn to be yourself, to appreciate
and to support the best in yourself,
developing it and getting rid of what is bad.
You can gain the ability to love for real,
to be honest with yourself and with others,
feel the delight of understanding of the meaning of your own existence
and the meaning of all that is happening around you.
You can enjoy the highest form of happiness and bliss,
not forcing anyone to suffer,
not killing other people,
and not sacrificing yourself.
And you need only one thing for that:
to search for freedom where you can find it!
In your chest, in your heart, in your mind, in your soul.
This search will bring you what makes it worthwhile being born on the Earth.
Are you ready to search for freedom where you can find it?
In your chest, in your heart, in your mind, in your soul!
Look for freedom where you can find it!
It is impossible to attain happiness without inner freedom!
And happiness is where wisdom and the KNOWING ONE'S OWN SELF is!
Where the apprehension of the essence and the meaning of life is!
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