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LadyEllen -> Freedom (2) (3/17/2010 5:11:27 PM)
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I contend that freedom is impossible for anyone that is attached in any way to this world, including even their very life, and that those with the most are the least free of all in that they fear its loss greatly and that consequently the most free are those that have and seek nothing.
I contend further that it is fear of loss of that to which we are attached that makes slaves of all, the mighty and the lowly, and that it is this fear that drives anger and thence hate for any thing or person that is perceived to bring the prospect of loss or which is perceived to have occasioned loss.
The greater the fear of loss, the less freedom we have, the more angry we become, the more hate we feel. And hate will often, upon opportunity or provocation, boil over into violent thoughts, words and deeds. And in its revelation, such hatefilled violence reveals those who live with the greatest fear and attachment, and the least freedom.
It is therefore inevitable that such persons should displace their fear and attachment into expressions characterised by ideas of freedom and perceived threats to it, and identify targets for their resultant hatred and violence as being one with those perceived threats.
The perhaps paradoxical remedy to such a dire diagnosis and its unhappy prognosis is to be found in abandoning all attachment such that there is nothing left to lose and thereby realising freedom, which is the very anathema to the source of the condition.
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