Every human being when he is immersed in the matter he must experience to carry on his own evolution it has, among the various themes that push it, the search for freedom.
Like all aspects that concern the individual, the pursuit of freedom can also be observed from various points of view. Perhaps the best way to understand this longing for the freedom that an individual possesses is to first try to examine what is this freedom. Weather
Yes, creatures, what is freedom for you? Io I am sure that if I had to speak to each of you individually, no one would have a clear idea about it.
It is easy to say, it is simple, useful, striking: "I am looking for freedom" but what freedom?
If you were able to be honest with yourself for a moment - and maybe even a little more than a moment - and you observed your search for freedom in your daily life, every day, you would realize that the freedom you are looking for is well little thing.
Observe yourself for a moment, think of yourself; think of yourself in a situation where you have said, "I need to be free, I try to be free, I must be free" and ultimately, after observing yourself, examine what you meant and you will realize that the your wanting to be free almost always meant be free from responsibility, be free to do what you like best, without having to think about whether what you do may disturb others, in short, be free to behave as your ego satisfies the most.
I know that this speech can be demoralizing, but it falls within the logic of evolution. Undoubtedly you all have, one by one, the drive towards something and this sense of seeking freedom is more than anything else an expression of your inner dissatisfaction, which you then cover with words that, as always, are limiting.
Seeking true freedom is something different, something that cannot be linked to the needs of the ego, because the needs of the ego are conditioning; they are conditionings that respond to the conditionings that are placed on you from the outside, but they also respond - more than anything else - to the conditionings that you place yourself as they are related to things that you have not yet understood.
Since you have not yet understood, they influence the way you behave, they give an aspect to your ego and its reactions, they cause direct you to the experiences that will then show you where, when, how and why you are wrong.
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So where can freedom be? Can it be "freedom", as it has become fashionable in recent years, to leave... what do I know... the family, one's work environment, one's country, and go looking for freedom in distant lands?
But freedom and truth, if they exist, are close; it is not necessary to go to look for them far away, otherwise they would always be a constant moving from one country to another and it would become a meaningless gymnasium in which all of you would get lost all the time.
If this were the case, one would really have to think of a capricious - and quite annoying - God who enjoys putting the possibility of freedom only for those who have the money to pay for a plane and go… I don't know… to India; but it is too sad to think of the idea of such a God.
If God truly loves all his creatures in the same way, he must place for his creatures, in the same way, the possibility of understanding the truth, of finding one's own condition of freedom, of coming into contact with Reality, and therefore each of you. looking around, staying where he is, he can - if he really wants to, if this really is his most heartfelt longing, if this is really what he wants - to find ways to gain your freedom by discovering the Truth.
This is perhaps the important point to understand, creatures: to be free it is necessary, first of all, to be free from oneself; to be free from oneself and from the conditionings that the individual automatically sets himself it is necessary for the individual to be able to discover your own truth, to know himself, see himself how he acts, how it reacts, a understand your mistakes, to do so as not to commit them again, otherwise everything that has not been discovered will be brought with sé wherever you go ... and what freedom can there be when chains are dragged around the world and never abandoned anywhere? None, creatures.
It follows, with a little logical reasoning, without great difficulty for anyone, that freedom can only be a inner condition, it cannot be sought outside; it can be conquered (yes), it can be approached gradually (this also), it can be grasped (this will always happen and in any case) only when the individual is able to put aside the barriers that stand between his desires and his condition inner; only in the moment, in short, in which he will truly be able to understand himself. Scifo
And when the individual will be able to pay attention to what he says, what he thinks and what he does, the moment he will be able to reach the why that motivate his actions, his thoughts and his words, at the very moment in which he will be able to put brick upon brick to start the construction of his truest self*, here: at that moment the individual will feel free always and in any case wherever he is.
Certainly the outside will always exist; certainly the responsibilities (which, after all, appear as chains) will always exist, but it will be the "way" of living all this that will change the situation, because the individual will feel free even as he fulfills his responsibility and he will know that, however it may be, that freedom he has created within him can never be made to doze off by anything that is around him, since it will always accompany him on his journey. Rodolfo
And then, children, at that moment, the real man who was looking for freedom will look in the mirror and probably will no longer recognize himself, because the tensions will have disappeared from his face, the contrasts will have disappeared from his face, there will be more flashes of sadness, bitterness, anger, anger, aggression and when he looks around he will no longer see - in people - other beings who somehow limit his freedom, but other beings who can share with he his own freedom, or other beings that he can help to try to reach their freedom, because it never happens that the freedoms reached by two individuals collide with each other; even if apparently the individuals are different, the obtainable freedom is always the same. Weather
And then, creatures, just in that moment, in the moment in which the external conditioning they will no longer make sense because, although they exist, they will no longer affect you; when i "internal" conditioning they will no longer have any sense because you will know how to recognize them and it will be you who will be their masters and not their masters of you, at that moment even the physical conditioning (as you said) they will cease to become chains for you, and the time will come for you, creatures, to abandon the wheel of births and deaths.
Of course, this whole journey is tiring, certainly taking this road is not a trivial matter and, if it were not so, we would not say that you need a hundred lives to be able to complete this journey.
Certainly doing these things involves torments, inner revolutions, a lot of courage, a lot of good will, a lot of strength to face one's truth, but there always comes a time in an individual's life when this can and must be done.
It will be done knowing that it will lead to the overcoming not so much of the ego - as this will happen painlessly - as of the suffering that has tormented you up to that point, and this must help you to move forward with courage trying to do your best to accomplish. all the painful and difficult steps you have to take in observing yourself and going towards your freedom, so that when you turn the corner and collide with it, it will recognize you, you will recognize it, and you will truly be a whole. one. Scifo
*It seems to me that Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophical vision, the latest incarnation of Rodolfo, resounds in this phrase, with the use of the expression “I truer” - extraneous to the Ifior language. Ed.
Freedom is an interior condition, as Scifo says and is not in contrast with responsibilities.
The person who knows himself freely discharges his responsibilities, he does not see them as a constraint.
It sounded bad to me too (the truest me) ...