What is Freedom?

Freedom to me is to be free from the bondage of perceptions. In other words, freedom to me, is not to be under the influence or under the spell of my perceptions. I have had varied perceptions, and my perceptions have been contradictory to other perceptions at other times. When have I accepted perceptions perceived by me? When I have accepted the unity behind the perceptions toward what I am perceiving. There are perhaps, two ways to accept the unity behind the perception, toward what I am perceiving. One is to see the myriad manifestations of the perceptions of what I am perceiving, and accept the perceptions, as I perceive them. The second is to accept what I perceive as a constant, and then to accept the myriad perceptions on what I perceive. However, belief and disbelief can be compared to the same person, wearing different clothes at different times. We believe one perception about a person, and disbelieve another perception about the same person. Belief and disbelief is not about believing what is true, and disbelieving what is false. We believe what we feel is good, and disbelieve, what we think is bad, about a person. A false statement, is one which we believe has not a good motive behind the statement, by the person who makes the statement. Or in other words, it is the negative feeling behind the statement, that makes it false. The person who makes the statement, if he can accept the negativity of the feeling behind the statement, his words are accepted as true by the perceiver of his words. But in this case, the person who makes the negative statement is disowned, though his negative statement is accepted. How, then, can I be free of my perceptions? This is the question. Perhaps, I should exist with my myriad perceptions, but the perceptions should not be given importance, even though all careful attention should be lavished on the perceptions. This may look like a contradictory statement. Why should the perceptions not be given importance? because if we give all perceptions importance, we give our negative perceptions importance, too. Negativity, is rejection, and it is rejected first, by the person who has the negative perception. So it is no wonder, that it is rejected by the others who perceive the perceiver, and his perception. In this state of affairs, why should we lavish attention, and carefully, on our perceptions? Because our organs of perception when uncontrolled, looks for objects of perception to perceive, and perceives the first object of perception, that it perceives, whether good, bad, or indifferent. What is a good perception? What is a bad perception? How do we feel negatively, or positively about a perception? This is an idea, but we feel positively, about what we want to feel positively about, and negatively about what we want to feel negatively about, we may even feel indifferently about a perception. If I see a sick man on the roadside,I may feel negatively, positively, or indifferently. The person who sees the sick man, and his situation negatively, has a negative perception on the situation of the sick man. A man who sees his own situation in a negative perspective, for example a depressed suicide, may look at the situation odf the sick man positively,and feel happy, that the man may die soon. An indifferent man, would feel indifferent, because he sees himself, not any better or worse off from the sick man on the road, even if he be a rich man, himself. So, all the perceptions, to be fair to all the perceivers, have validity, to the perceivers. But the way I view the perceivers, I see a grave injustice done by all the perceivers toward the sick man. Whose perception would you support? The sick man has an ailment,and people have opinions on the sick man's situation. Perhaps, if one tells a sick man, that he will die soon, then he will not care, he being more preoccupied with his sickness. I mean, a simple, normal sickness. Now, can the sick man, not help dying, if he has to die? No, but how do the perceptions of the others, help the others? Are they free of their perceptions? If they ponder their perceptions, then they are free of their perceptions. A person who questions his own perceptions, when he perceives, is free from the bondage of his perceptions, when he perceives. This is perhaps freedom. A man, is free of perceptions, and hence, is free, when he knows, that he cannot help himself, nor others, but he can do, what he can do in his situation, and nothing more.