Freedom

Do you really want to be free?

Who-ever we are, our Dhamma journey is the same; from darkness to light, fear to love, ignorance to the liberating wisdom. As we sit in meditation, we might think that others have a much easier time than we do, but our journey is always completely personal, and so we never really know what others have met or continue to meet as a consequence of their old story. The world that we experience is the one that we create for ourselves moment after moment by our habits of indulging or repressing the mind as it manifests into our life.

To be free from its influence, we have to be patient and loving to ourselves and allow everything to arise without prejudice. We give our permission for the mind to do anything it wants, and we will be peaceful and accepting of it. It’s just a story, and now it’s just another fantasy to keep you awake at night. To awaken and so be free to live without fear and anxiety we must let go of our emotional relationship to the past, no matter how enticing the drama of it is, and leave all those destructive emotions where they belong. It happened, it’s over, don’t carry it with you anymore.

It’s now only dead weight, another burden in your life. The word Vipassana means to ‘see things as they really are’ and through your own personal investigation you will see that mind can be your best friend or your worst enemy - it all depends on you, but liberation from the cause and conditions of your unhappiness is always available. You just have to want it enough.

May all beings be happy.