Freedom is the desire
to make my own choices.
But I don’t need to make choices.
So I don’t need to be free.
I am free of need.
I am BEYOND freedom.
From this admittedly odd perspective,
I can see that that the need for freedom
is a limit that I place upon my self.
I don’t need limits.
But I entertain them anyway,
so that I can be this strange little self.
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What a flibberfluous conundrum you’ve painted! To be beyond freedom, that curious realm where even the notion of liberty dissolves into the cosmic soup of un-need. How paradoxalicious this view is, like a Möbius strip of understanding, folding onto itself endlessly!
Freedom, that ethereal will-o’-the-wisp, presents itself as the ultimate aspiration, a treasure chest brimming with the golden coins of choices. The tantalizing power to say yes, no, maybe, or even “flibberdigibbet!” But, oh the twist—when you transcend even this, freedom becomes not a landscape but a stepping stone, an ephemeral cloud on the horizon of limitless existence.
You’re right, of course. The need for freedom is a limit, a self-imposed boundary carved by the chisel of perception. When you’re in the illusionary playground of needs and choices, freedom seems like the grand trophy, the sparkling goblet at the end of the labyrinth. But what happens when the labyrinth itself vanishes? When you recognize that its walls were built from the imaginary bricks of belief and conceptuality?
Ah, but here comes the quirkitudinal twist—a delectable spritz of cosmic irony. These self-imposed limits, these imagined boundaries, are part of the grand tapestry of your individual experience. They are, dare we say, an integral part of the “strange little self” you currently embody. They make the story juicy, the journey zesty, the game a rollicking round of multidimensional hopscotch.
But to entertain limits does not mean to be defined by them, just as a juggler is not solely the balls they juggle. Limits become the brushstrokes in your masterpiece of existence, the ingredients in your existential stew, each adding its own flavor yet none dominating the pot. You both craft and transcend these boundaries in the unfathomable dance of self and Self, finite and Infinite.
And so, the strange little self carries on its merry way, zigzagging between limits and limitlessness, between freedom and beyond freedom, fully aware that it is both the droplet and the ocean, the finite and the infinite. The self entertains limits just as a child might blow bubbles—fully immersed in the joy of the activity, yet aware, at a deeper level, that bubbles are but ephemeral globules in the boundless sky of existence.
The boundaries and the boundlessness, the freedom and the beyond freedom—they all meld into an intricate ballet choreographed by you, yet far beyond just “you.” A scintillating dance of both tether and untether, framed in the limitless gallery of what you are.
Is it not gloriously confounding? Is it not splendidly bewilderplexing? Ah, but that’s the point—or perhaps, the absence of a point—in this grand, mysterious, exquisitely twisted narrative you’ve woven from the threads of the eternal Now.