Liberating Focus

Your focused energy determines how existence manifest. If you’re constantly focused on yourself, your actions will be selfish. If you possess the whole world, but aren’t liberated from yourself, you’ll remain in captivity…

For me the key to being liberated from the captivity of self is turning my focused energy away from greed and lustful thoughts. When the mind gets stuck in these thoughts, to be liberated it needs to become unstuck. What makes it get stuck is energy mostly focused on satisfying self in some way. Pay attention to the sensations of the body, mind, and mental formations. This is a direct path to how one becomes liberated from suffering.

Liberation 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 divert your focus away from it. To not have your energy engaged in satisfying the self is where the path of liberation leads to. How this is done is by stopping the focused energy of self and focusing it towards what will liberate you. The self is there and it has been given a name, it also has many other labels attached to it, but there’s bondage because of the mere fact of the attachment it has to itself. Liberation is in understanding the lies of self, it isn’t in creating a concept or belief in something.

You can only be free when focusing on what allows freedom, but it’s tricky because of the mastery of the Conditioned Mind. Constant vigilance is needed for the liberation from self. You’re alive so you exist, but it will be your focused energy that determines the extent of the liberation you have from self and that will be the determining factor of how your existence manifest…