Thursday, July 24, 2008

Freedom


Freedom is the deepest human aspiration; hence, most of history's greatest struggles have fundamentally been about freedom -- be it political, social, economic or any other way.


However, all of these attempts for freedom, while (sometimes) accomplishing some of their intended goals, are really expressions of the deepest singular craving within the human soul: freedom.


Yet the world is a dual place -- a meeting of opposites. Night and day, yes and no, black and white. The Yin-Yang symbol is very instructive here; it informs us that our world is dual -- and with dual, come limitations.


Meditation, however, is the real path towards freedom -- because it is beyond opposites, beyond the Yin and the Yang.

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