Focused energy determines how you live. If that energy is constantly focused towards yourself, you will be selfish. If you possess the whole world, but aren’t free from self, you’ll remain stuck in a self created prison.
Being free from the prison of self requires focusing your energy away from self serving thoughts. When the mind gets focused on these thoughts there’s a freedom that allows the mind needs to become unstuck. What makes it get stuck is energy that’s mostly focused on satisfying self in some way. Focusing 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 focus is on what allows freedom, but it’s tricky because to master this takes constant vigilance. It will be your directed focus 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, you can only focus on something that anchors you in the Now. To no longer have your focus on self is where the path of liberation leads to. How this is done is by simply not focusing on self and focusing 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 attachment. Freedom occurs when there’s an understanding of the lies of self, not in creating concepts or beliefs. Where your energy is focused determines how you live. If that energy is constantly focused towards self, you will be selfish. If you possess the whole world, but aren’t liberated from self, you’ll remain stuck in your self created prison…
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