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“…and I realized that the nature of the game was not about getting high but about getting free….If we are to be free, there is nothing we can push away.”
-Ram Dass, Grist For the Mill: Awakening to Oneness
I believe that “human nature” is a myth — a cop out from facing the true depths of our potential. Stripped clean of all of this socialization and identification, time, space and causation, we are completely free. We are bliss, we are God, the Tao. We are too expansive to confine ourselves only to our bodies, our afflictions, our rajassic selves. We are so expansive by nature that this whole “reality” as individual humans can be experienced as just a divine melodramatic comedy. But for some reason, we don’t seem to believe this. We have become so immersed in the characters we are playing, that we have forgotten who we are off stage. But boy, do we 
put on an entertaining show! Maybe that’s why God has kept us around this long…
When we credit ourselves with the expansiveness we naturally contain, we can be both actors and spectators of this melodrama. We can stop taking it all so seriously and take refuge in its inherent perfection. From a place of refuge, we are free to address the issues in ourselves and the world without the normal interference from the ego. We are free to experience transcendent joy and connection, simply by not identifying with the ego and its limitations. We all know this — we are all born with the same freedom, the same afflictions, the same potential for love and wisdom. However, the forces of a counter-intuitive, out-dated, and immoral society create a fog of delusion around us. In the way of creating an awakened
society, we first have to awaken ourselves. We cannot continue to be crippled by a false sense of freedom while being naive to our true sense of freedom. We cannot continue to be herded around like cattle because we believe that that’s howsociety functions. There is no more profound means of resistance, no stronger form of disobedience, than a revolution in consciousness.
“The crisis is a crisis in consciousness…It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
-J. Krishnamurti
The potency of this era, with all of the areas of concern, is founded upon a revolution in consciousness. Planting seeds of intra-personal awakening in order to harvest a societal transformation. Critically examining the notion of ‘freedom’ with an unwillingness to be consciously confined. Acknowledging the natural disdain for such a fraudulent system, and cultivating the intention to ‘wake up’ for the benefit of all beings.
“Be in the world but not of it.”
-John 17
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