Engaging energy determines how you live. If your engaged energy is constantly towards yourself, you will be selfish. If you possess the whole world, but aren’t free from self, you’ll remain engaged in a self created prison…
Being free from the prison of self requires engaging your energy away from self serving thoughts. When the mind gets engaged on these thoughts there’s a freedom that allows the mind to become unstuck. What makes it get stuck is engaged energy that’s mostly on satisfying self in some way. Engaging on the sensation of mind, body, and mental formations helps to alleviate the bondage of self. This is a direct path to how one becomes free from suffering. You can only be free when the engaging energy is on what allows freedom, but it’s tricky because to master this takes constant vigilance. It will be your directed engaged energy that determines the extent of freedom and that will be the determining factor how your life is lived.
Freedom from suffering is not pain free, it’s learning to be with the pain that arises. You cannot hide from what’s happening, but you can engage on something that anchors you in the Now. To no longer have your engaging energy on self is the path to liberation. How this is done is by simply not engaging on self and engaging on what will set you free. The self is there and it has been given a name. It has so many other different labels attached to it, but it’s a prison because of the mere fact of the engaging energy of attachment. Freedom occurs when there’s an understanding of the lies of self; not in creating concepts or beliefs. Where your energy is engaged determines how you live. If that energy is constantly engaged towards self, you will be selfish. If you possess the whole world, but aren’t liberated from self, you’ll remain stuck in a self created prison…
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