The Most Important Ingredient

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    • Publish Date: Jan 19 2017 5:53PM
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The Most Important Ingredient


All that is valuable becomes possible only in the climate of freedom. Love also grows only in the soil of freedom; without freedom, love cannot grow. Without freedom, what grows in the name of love is nothing but lust. Without freedom there is no God. Without freedom what you think to be God is only your imagination, your fear, your greed. There is no heaven without freedom: freedom is heaven.... 
 
Freedom is the goal. Awareness is the method to reach that goal. And when you are really free, you are a master; the slavery disappears. Ordinarily we may appear free, but we are not free. It may appear that we are the choosers, but we are not the choosers. We are being pulled, pushed by unconscious forces…. 

All great values of life grow in the climate of freedom; hence freedom is the most fundamental value and also the highest pinnacle. This freedom... is spiritual, a state of consciousness unhindered by any desire, unchained to any desire, ‘unimprisoned’ by any greed, by any lust for more. It is utterly empty, because if there is something, it will hinder freedom; hence it is utter emptiness.

This word ‘emptiness’ has been so very misunderstood by people, because the word has a connotation of negativity.... Emptiness is absolutely positive, more positive than your so-called fullness, because emptiness is full of freedom; everything else has been removed. It is spacious; all boundaries have been dropped. It is unbounded — and only in an unbounded space, freedom is possible. This emptiness is not ordinary emptiness; it is not only absence of something, it is a presence of something invisible. For example, let’s say you are about to empty your room: As you remove the furniture and paintings and the things inside, the room becomes empty on the one hand because there is no more furniture, no more paintings, no more things, nothing is left inside; but on the other hand, something invisible starts filling it. That invisible ‘thing’ that you now perceive is ‘roominess’, spaciousness; the room becomes bigger. 

As you remove the things, the room is becoming bigger and bigger. When everything is removed, even the walls, then the room is as big as the whole sky. Freedom is the ultimate goal of true religion. Freedom is the highest, the summum bonum; there is nothing higher than that. Dhammapada. 

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