Individual freedom expands with the evolution of feeling (IF27)

Philosophical teaching 27
Among the various problems that have affected man there is certainly the problem of free will, or, more generally, if you like, the problem of "freedom".
It is clear, and to understand this it is enough to look around or observe one's own existence, that the individual, the embodied being, forced to inhabit a physical vehicle, does not enjoy absolute freedom, but his field of action, his possibility that is, making decisions "in freedom" is very restricted and limited. It can therefore be easily stated that the embodied individual enjoys one relative freedom, so much so that we could even speak of evolution of freedom.
In fact, the freedom of the individual grows proportionally with the growth of evolution, so that the more the individual evolves, thanks to the experiences he feels in the course of various existences, the greater the freedom he enjoys in moving within the physical world.
I would even say that this widening of freedom is a widening both from a quantitative and qualitative point of view. I will try to explain myself better: if the freedom of the individual grows proportionally - therefore it becomes greater - with the growth of the individual's evolution, the same happens for the quality of the choices that the individual has to make in the course of own existence.
To give an example, I would say this: if an advanced individual finds himself having to choose whether to go right or left, when he has reached a greater evolution he will find himself, for example, having to choose whether to go right, left or straight, then the his freedom will be increased quantitatively because the possibilities of choice will no longer be two, as in the case of the unintentional, but three.
The evolved person will not only have to choose whether to go right, left, or straight but will also have the possibility to choose whether to go there on foot or by scooter; and, in this way, also the quality of his choices will have taken on a different connotation compared to the unintentional one who will be forced to go on foot; this new possibility of choice will imply a greater number of responsibilities, more and more imposing, more weighty responsibilities that he will have to accept not only for his own good but also for the good of all his brothers.
Currently incarnated individuals have an average evolutionary level and enjoy relative, not absolute freedom, as absolute freedom necessarily means being completely outside any constraint, any coercion; it means on the part of the individual to make decisions such that no other being, who lives next to him and with him, can be negatively affected by these decisions.
Now it is clear that this absolute freedom, envisaged at least in these terms, is the prerogative only of the individual who has reached a certain evolution, since the less evolved individual, or if you prefer we call him unevolved, is not able to take, in the course of its existence, of decisions without these, in some way, having a negative impact on others.
In order to avoid that his freedom of choice leads him to accumulate always new karma - precisely because he is not capable, he does not have the possibility to choose the good for everyone - he has considerable limitations that make his spectrum of free action very narrow.
now io I would like to analyze for a moment the quality and quantity of limitations and see how they limit the unevolved or medium-evolving individual in his choices.

We can distinguish two types of limitation: there is a limitation that comes from his own inner being, therefore a necessary condition of his uneven state, and a condition that comes instead from the outside.
Let's take a further example to simplify things for a moment: an unevolved individual - remember that we have called him unevolved only for convenience - could feel inside of sé the desire to paint, to make sculptures, or something of this kind but not have the practical capacity necessary for this intimate desire to be somehow realized; this is an example of limitation coming from within.
The limitation coming instead from his own outside could be the fact that this individual wishes to sculpt, wants to paint, has the ability to do it, but does not have, for practical reasons, obvious, related to the circumstances, to everyday life, the time. material so that once again this desire of his can somehow be realized. This is an example of limitation coming from the outside.
So, in practice, the unevolved individual will not be able to paint, sculpt to satisfy his desires, perhaps feeling frustrated, unfulfilled, dissatisfied.

The evolved, on the other hand, is outside these limitations, also because he, being in contact with his own spiritual part, will be outside the desires, and what for the unintentional constitutes a limitation (see the lack of time material) for the evolved will no longer be experienced as such, furthermore, knowing deeply himself he will not create illusions and will certainly know what his real abilities are, therefore not having the ability to paint or sculpt, will not be a traumatic experience as it could be for the unintentional.
The absence of desire, as you can understand, leads to greater inner serenity as well as knowing oneself leads to being at peace with one's inner self, and leads to the awareness that each of the embodied beings has its own role, a part of its own. as an actor on the big stage that is the world of matter.

Naturally, the quality of the limitations will also be different according to the evolutionary degree, and this quality too will always be proportionate to the evolutionary degree reached, all with the aim of making the unintentional as harmless as possible, which, I repeat, if it had the possibility to choose, if he were free he would act only in order to satisfy his own egoism and this would lead him to produce many causes whose effects would make his chain of lives increasingly heavy and almost interminable. Vito

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