Hello everyone, today I'd like for us to explore and discuss together the question of freedom.
Now in this video and for future videos, I'd like for us... if you are all interested in
it as well, for all of us to talk about this in the comments section or try to discuss
about this and just see how it all works out.
Not trying to influence each other or impose our own views or anything, but just to talk
about what we think, what our thoughts are on the topic at hand.
So that being said.
I'd like for us to explore the question of freedom.
Because freedom today has to do with ourselves right?
What I want to do.
What I'd like to do.
So if that's the case, then freedom in this sense, is a reaction to something.
So I work a nine-to-five job, it's really stressful and I react to that.
I say I want to be a success right?
Because I've been told throughout my whole life growing up here in America where money,
The Pursuit of Happiness, riches is all important.
I've been told that freedom is all of the riches, the money, the success.
So in order to get to freedom, complete freedom, I must be a success.
So that being told to me and to many of us our whole lives, we react to the situation
that were actually in, which for many of us is a 9 to 5 job.
So is that freedom when we react and try to strive for that success or we try to act away
from something in the name of freedom because we want to be free?
And when we are successful, even if I have a lot of money, are we free?
Is that freedom at all?
Now I want us to question this because, can we see that any reaction away from something
is fear.
And what is that feeling of fear?
Doesn't it feel binding or constricting?
Like I'm worrying, I'm doubting... what if I lose my money?
What if someone steals it?
I'm spending more and more money since I have more... what will I do once it all runs out?
So it's like I'm trapped in my own idea, in my own field of what I've sought for, for
so long, for so many years and and what I've worked so long for.
So it's like I'm caught in that.
So trying to do what I want to do, when actually I'm stuck in something that I don't want to
do, that is fear.
And any result that is born from the action of fear, must contain fear because it it came
from that fear right?
So fear is a part of freedom if we talk about and live and believe in freedom in this sense.
So therefore, that destroys freedom, that's not freedom at all.
So what is freedom then?
Because throughout our entire lives we've been influenced right?
We're always being told what should be, what is the right way to live?
Go to school, go to college, get a degree, get a high-paying job as a doctor, engineer,
some sort of bigger money job.
And we're always told many different things, be a Christian or Catholic or Buddhist depending
on what our parents and ancestors have basically repeated and passed over through many generations.
So all this influence to be or to become certain things... we say that that is righteous, that
is complete freedom and security.
However, if we just influence each other, if we just act as some kind of "know-it-all"
figure, which I hope I'm not doing myself.
I may be, I don't know, but when we act as if we are trying to influence and trying to
tell each other what is the right way to success, to freedom, then we don't see that, that grounding
actual fact that where there is any amount of success or something that makes me feel
good, anything.
Wherever that is, there must be the pain, struggle, the fear, the suffering that goes
along with it.
And when we try to strive for greater, greater results of freedom or success, we're going
to increase the suffering in the struggle to get there as well.
So it all just seems like this unnecessary circle like we're starting off in a regular
circle, just kind of going to get that job and we get the job and now we're bored of
the job and that's it.
We're in our little circle, in our little job and now we want to extend the circle into
something much larger.
We want more money, a bigger house, better cars and we talk about a bigger house, better
cars, more money.
We talk about that and you know once again we are all influencing each other, so people
are out there, who already have it, who are already successful, they try to influence
the people who are not, for the benefit of themselves and they try to say you know that
there is complete freedom, complete success, when you do A, B and C and reach this or become
this through my help.
And then it's like when you get there or if you get there, we don't think about... okay,
we still got to put in the pain and the struggle.
We still got to work and then it may not even happen and even if it does happen then we
are in fear of losing that so-called "thing" that we worked so hard to achieve.
So this gets me questioning the whole meaning of freedom.
Because freedom can't be anything that we put effort into getting or achieving right?
So this is what I like for us to discuss because I may be wrong about some of what I said or
all of it.
I also want to learn and hear from your thoughts as well.
Thank you for watching and listening and hope to hear from you soon.
Have a good day, bye.
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