freedom

Freedom

I am searching about freedom. When I was adult hood to until now. Freedom is my mission target. I am working for freedom. I really dug in, trying to learn about it much more deeply. I searched freedom in book, experience and India and Thailand in 1998 to 2003. I didn’t get it. Now I understand a little bit so I have been trying to tell about freedom.
There are two kinds of freedom to be found in our world: freedom of desires and the freedom from desires. Modern Western culture only recognizes the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrine it at the forefront of national constitutions and bills of human right .The underlying creed of most western democracies is to protect their people’s freedom to realize their desires, as far as this is possible. It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. I t celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desire. Buddhism stand point to freedom as the ultimate goal of realization, that is the freedom from suffering and the freedom from the bonds of suffering.
I have question to my self. I am searching freedom of desires or freedom from desires. That’s is really interesting question isn’t it. I maybe free from the shackle of social repression but I am never truly free from Kammic bondage. It is means freedom of desire. I really don’t want it. What I want freedom from desire. How can I work for that. I know that’s not easy but not too hard. True freedom in Buddhism stand point to appreciate of our kammic make up and to engage ourselves to live a cultivated life that aim to free us from creating future Kammic bondage.
Freedom is being content to be where you are. Prison is want-ing to be somewhere else. The free world is the world experienced by one who is content. The real freedom is freedom from desire, never freedom of desire.


Kamma. Volitional action, considered particularly as a moral force capable of producing, for the agent, results that correspond to the ethical quality of the action; thus good kamma produces happiness and Bad Kamma produces suffering.

Reference:
Brahm, Ajahn. Who ordered this truckload of Dung. Boston Wisdom Publication,2005.
Bodhi, Bhikkhu. In the Buddha’s Words; an anthology of discourses from the Pali canon/ edited and introduce. Boston Wisdom Publication,2005.