Liberation in Life

‘He built himself into a prison cell and eventually smashed his way out.’
This is describes what happened to me.

When we embark on the adventure to seek out the meaning of ‘Life’ it can often be like riding an emotional roller coaster with all kinds of conflicting feelings ranging from awe and excitement to frustration and disappointment.

‘The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.’

The seeker is the unfulfilled self or inadequate self which is seeking a way to complete itself and somehow to become whole. So where does this inadequacy originate? Scientific studies have concluded that most of our conditioning or hard wiring takes place by the time we are 6 years old. So later on in life unless we are in an elevated state of awareness beyond our personality programming, we make decisions and choices based on deeply entrenched belief structures from our formative years which tell us what and how to think and behave.

So despite any quest to become whole, the ego gives us a sense of being separate from the other. This sense of separation ultimately leads to differences of opinion resulting in insecurities about the self. The ego is a highly sophisticated software machine built into the mind/body interface and it’s purpose is to bind us to our beliefs, opinions, habits and ideas. Once fully immersed in our beliefs the ego functions to ensure we identify with the bank of ideas that it is protecting. When we say ‘I’, it would then be an ‘I’ based on an idea that generates thoughts which tell us we are the sum total of our beliefs.

So how can we become whole if our ego is designed to keep us separate? The strategy of the ego is to seek new beliefs which promise to complete any idea of lack. Once the seeker repeats this formula enough times and realises that it can never work, then there is a realisation that counter beliefs rather being the solution are actually adding to the problem - these are the metaphorical prison bars we build to encase ourselves within a multifaceted identity. It is at this point and after a transcendent realisation that the journey becomes more a question of deleting programming than trying to combat existing programming with new programming.

Through inner exploration of the workings of our mind and through observation and experimentation we gradually get to see the extent of the disruptive nature of the ego’s activity. It is then a matter of learning how to remove any patterns of conditioning which create the thinking that takes us out of present moment awareness.

Once we begin experiencing more and more freedom from disengaging from the interference of conditioned thinking, we are on track to living a more naturally calm and optimistic life.