When the Conditioned Mind is in control your freedom is compromised and no matter how subtle the control your freedom will be compromised until your mind finds its place of rest...
To me there’s no difference between a mind pattern that manifest as glaring dysfunctional behavior and one that’s as subtle as being annoyed because the line you pick in the supermarket always seems to have some kind of delay. I say there is no difference except in the consequences of the immediate action because obviously there are differences in the destructiveness of certain behavior. Acting out on road rage or being annoyed in a check out line will not produce the same outer consequences, but the inner bondage is the same. They are both controlling and leave you at the mercy of your Conditioned Mind. The more subtle the bondage the harder it is to notice it, and the less it’s noticed the less likely it will be changed. It is easier to change a devastating dysfunctional behavior that is really affecting your life than one that’s just a petty annoyance.
Understand whether you are in a maximum security prison or in a minimal security prison you’re still in prison; prison is prison any way you slice it. You may not be in solitary confinement, but you are not free and that’s the bottom line. You will either be free from the bondage of self or you will not. A little bondage equates to total bondage without the glaring consequences, but when you’re truly free there are no consequences whatsoever because the is no conditioned behavior. Freedom from the bondage of self is to live life free from the control of your Conditioned Mind. When you’re free you’re available to do the kind of things that aren’t available when you’re in prison and enjoying every minute of everyday is one of them...
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