To what extent are we free to determine our lives?

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As separate selves, we are entirely conditioned by the rules of the "dream of the planet." Therefore, freedom is illusory.

When we commit to totally open to the unknown, the personal entity really does start to drop away (absent the weight of a personal point of view, and being hypnotized by prideful emotions such as anger and agitation).

Thoughts and perceptions start to appear largely because we allow them to be. Somehow, we are aware that we are free to feel the permanency (lightness of being) within this and every moment.

We cannot understand this at the level of thought, but we can, and do, experience it within the eternity of an unfiltered moment. We are free to be.

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Keshav Howe

9 responses to “To what extent are we free to determine our lives?”

  1. Keshav Howe
    Joe, you can join my character Keshav in his "shit-head" recovery program. I am clear that what was once a "catch and release program" eventually slows down to a less persistent drive-by nagging. The Divinity of Life is right in plain sight. I am very grateful for just how painful it is to watch myself being a shit-head. Taking responsibility for changing my relationship with that noise, overshadows a pathetic pull to cast blame.
     
    Now is always the Time to wave goodbye to old and demeaning "self" talk. They are just breadcrumbs I left behind to remind me of the sweetness of the banana bread with dark chocolate chips, that I just took out of the oven.
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  2. Keshav Howe

    What has always been a real drag on my relationship with life is when I have overlooked its innate benevolence. Eyes gently rooted in Kindness overshadow the need to filter life through a personal, separate and painful – point of view.

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  3. sasanijjs

    After another wave of shit head-ism I have again recognized that “Joe” needs to go

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  4. ceejaypea

    I know what you mean Betty. Isn’t it amazing, the pull of some set of ‘rules’, made by whom I do not know.. It seems it ‘should be’ easier to just obey the rules and then there will be peace. That has not been my experience. The most recent page of my Zen calendar said: Be silly, Be honest, Be kind (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

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