Chapter 10: The Realm of Great Freedom

Freedom is something that everyone yearns for and wants to have, but there are very few people in the world who can have freedom! If you want to be truly free, you have to understand what freedom is.

The so-called freedom is not to be constrained, to do as you like, but this desire is precisely the foundation of restricting freedom!

If you want to find freedom, you must understand that those constraints can be broken and those constraints cannot be broken.

Man-made acquired rules can be broken, while the innate rules produced by heaven and earth cannot be broken. Nature's rules must be followed.

The so-called human law of the earth, the law of the earth, and the law of heaven and the way of the heavens.

It means that man depends on the rules of the earth to survive, the earth depends on the rules of heaven to grow and perish, and the heavens depend on the rules of the Tao!

The freedom we want, the shackles we want to throw away are actually put on ourselves, and what others give us is only a side effect, and the main problem is on ourselves!

From birth, we rely on our parents to survive, so we have to be restrained by our parents, older, dependent on the school to provide learning, so we have to be restrained by teachers, bigger, into the society, under the pressure of society, we have to be controlled by the tangible laws and invisible rules in the society, ordered by the leader, urged by the family, as if we have always been troubled by shackles, entangled.

But that's not the case, what we experience is just appearances, just outward things, and circumstances!

First of all, let's talk about why we are bound by our parents when we are young.

Everyone knows very well that if parents are already parents, they will naturally understand that children are still young, they only act according to their innate instincts, selfishness, and innate desires, and they don't know or understand what the consequences are, how serious they are, at this time parents have to take responsibility and worry about them, so they must restrain them and prevent them from doing wrong things and evil things, because after they do it, the evil consequences will reach them and hurt them, and this protection is considered a kind of shackle before they understand!

I saw some complaints from my friends some time ago, he was complaining that he had no sense of freedom and autonomy at all, that his life was not controlled by himself at all, but by his parents, and that his family did not respect him at all.

I asked him why, and he told me that he was miserable, that he couldn't do a lot of things by himself, that he wasn't free, and that he was controlled by his parents. He wanted a good car, a Mercedes-Benz G series car, he had admired it for a long time, but his family said that the BMW car was more suitable for him, and bought him a BMW car without his consent, he was very irritable, had no freedom, and couldn't even be the master of what he liked!

I told him that you want to be free very simply, as simple as a single thought.

I told him that I was a minor when I was very young, I liked Chinese, but the school did not pay attention to Chinese, and forced me to study mathematics, physics and chemistry, so my grades were very bad, and my parents didn't like me, so I chose to drop out of school directly, and went out to help people work at the age of sixteen, and from then on I didn't give my parents a penny, and everything was on my own, and I never blamed others for good or bad, and I didn't blame my parents. I said a very stupid thing, I don't want your things, you don't care about me, although this sentence seems bad, but it is difficult for many young people to say it!

I say; You don't feel free now, you don't want your parents to be restrained and controlled, you go under other people's roofs, use your own hands to satisfy your own desires, you make a lot of money, or very little money is freely distributed by you, no one can control you, even if you use 100 million to buy a bicycle, as long as you like it, no one can say anything about you, or stop you from anything!

But what you want is not freedom, life is inherently very hard, when you don't feel bitter, someone must bear the share that belongs to you for you, what you want is when others carry the weight for you, and listen to your command, just like treating slaves, you want to be unprovoked and high, this is your root problem!

The rules are always fair, how much protection you are willing to accept, how much restrictions you need to bear, if you want to break through the restrictions and get true freedom, you need to first break through the protection given to you by others, and take on everything bravely!

And the school is the same, the protection he brings you, the technology he teaches you is willing to learn, you have to do it according to their rules, the rules are right or wrong depends on how you understand it, if you feel that the rules are wrong, they teach loopholes, not suitable for you, you leave him, but you have to bear the consequences.

I never regretted leaving the system, I thought they were wrong, I left, and to this day I still think that their rules are very flawed and wrong, of course, this is just my own personal opinion, so I chose to leave, follow the freedom of my heart, and finally reached the peak of my ideal in the field I love!

And the consequence I have to bear is the oppression caused by not following the rules of the world! Although he has knowledge, but he has no diploma, he is destined to be unacceptable in this society that only looks at the form and does not look at the real material!

The same principle, the same rules, all your restrictions and shackles come from how much you want to have, how much you want. If you want to have a family, get the happiness of affection and affection, then you have to be willing to bear the responsibilities and shackles brought by the family, you want a house, you have to carry the shackles of hard work in order to buy a house, you want a good car, you have to carry the shackles of the car, you want to have money, you have to carry the shackles brought to you by money, all desires have to bear the shackles brought by these desires, you must pay hard, only to be rewarded, the more desires the more shackles!

The shackles given to human beings by heaven and earth are only very simple: innate nature, food and clothing, safety, and survival!

And the rest of the shackles are the shackles that human beings put on themselves in order to satisfy their desires, and more often than not, the shackles are all from the desire to compare!

Who can be as free and easy as Mr. Lao Tzu? Who can give up desires like the pseudo-saint Zhuangzi?

What is freedom? It is to give up your excessive desires, and the saint is not the eye! You can also choose to have desires, but you need to be willing to bear all the consequences of this shackle, which is freedom!

If you don't want to bear it, don't do it, and avoiding these bad consequences is also an alternative freedom. So many people who are free in the world are always so innocent in the eyes of people, and people don't understand why they are always so happy! It's just that no one understands that they have the greatest freedom!

They are truly great liberals, abandoning all the shackles of desire, and following the rules of food and clothing between heaven and earth, within which they can swim and move as they please!

I abandoned the shackles within the system very early, which is equivalent to abandoning the high-ranking officials and high expectations, because I really hate their teaching methods, I am willing to bear all the incomprehension, to obtain the freedom I like, when a person is happy, read the book of sages, the hundred schools of thought, the way of the sages, if you don't want to read it, close the book and put it away, I will tear up the books in the school to show freedom, but I will not tear up the cheap Tao Te Ching that is only worth two or three yuan in my hand! If you want to think about it, you can think about it, and if you don't want to think about it, you can put your mind down!

I also untied the shackles of my parents very early, I am willing to bear all the consequences, all the hardships, this is my own choice, and I have broken into the holy realm in ten years of human experience!

What is the freedom of our country? It is to be willing to bear all the consequences and do what you like under the premise of abiding by morality and law!

Freedom is the shackles that abandon desires and put on your body, as long as your courage is enough!

Are you willing to abandon the desire for a good car?

That way you don't have to worry about someone else owning a luxury car!

Would you rather be single for the rest of your life?

That way you won't be bothered by not getting the enjoyment of love. Are you willing to abandon all the psychology of comparison, and don't care about the opinions and eyes of outsiders to do what you want to do? Even if the whole world doesn't understand you?

If you want, then you're free!

Freedom is to be willing to do it after understanding it, as long as you want to do it, who can stop you?

You want to have love, but love is not necessarily possible, you are willing to bear the painful consequences, then you do it! You are free!

You don't want to be restrained by your parents, but the hard work and fatigue after leaving your parents will never end for a lifetime, no one will take care of you anymore, if you are willing, and willingly bear all the harm in the world, and do not regret it, then you go! You are free!

All kinds of troubles in the world are the shackles of desire that you put on yourself, and if you understand everything, you will be free.

Because you know that if you want something, you have to put on some shackles, and if you don't want to get any bad consequences, you don't do anything. It's also a kind of freedom to understand things!

Freedom is affordable!

Freedom is something you can let go!