To
my Courageous Humankind,
The Mind I have encountered a world
which will never understand what true freedom is. I have confronted a world that will
forever attempt to understand what freedom is. Yet, while trying to understand it, they
will never be free. Never. They will be slaves to themselves. We speak of concepts, all of
us do, but concepts are only words, irrelevant words. To be free we must go beyond the
words. We must delve into ourselves and find those things which hinder us. We must find
those things which suffocate us. For all of us are bound by those things we fear. We fear
what might be gained. We fear what might be lost. We fear what we know. We fear what we
don’t know. The majority of the world will never have the courage to face what they
truly are. The majority is too afraid to attempt the journey to be unafraid. Security will
be shaken and warped. I would almost feel saddened if I thought that I could give freedom,
but I know only the individual can give freedom to the self. I would like so much to
explain what freedom is, but only the brave can ever understand it. Only those who have
peace in the madness of the world can know freedom. Only those who have become the side of
life that society disapproves of can understand that they're still what they are with or
without approval. The individual exists weather one is deemed "good" or
"bad". The individual must allow themselves to face madness, to know madness, be
with madness,and indeed, to become madness. Then the individual will know that madness is
only a perceivement. It is only a concept. The label "madness" is the illusion
of those who fear harm unto a world they believe is stable. Madness is like evil, it is
projected only by cowards. If the world said you were mad, would you agree? If society
said you were evil. Would you then agree? Or would you say, "No you’re mad.
No you’re evil. It is you who cannot understand." Such blind displays of
speech from any side, societal groups or personal, are only to make the persecutor more
righteous and secure. You see, it is the defense of cowards to label someone else as good
or evil. It is only a concept. To not be this or that...to not be mad, for example...is
the killer of freedom. What says we must be anything? Only the mind, that which has
accepted confining standards. Most would say, rather stunned, "Only the mind? The
mind is what we are. It is our definition." But this is an illusion, as all things of
the mind are illusions. Think of it, if you don't believe me. There are 5 billion worlds
existing right now. There are 5 billion people interpreting the world in 5 billion
different ways. There is no definition. There's no pure agreement. And 5 billion worlds
exist if you only believe that humans have conscious thought. What makes your illusion any
better than mine? If situations had been reversed, circumstances exchanged, the illusions
could be reversed as well. The fact that we think that we are the mind is our restriction
to freedom. We think we must be something specific in our heads, or on our jobs, or in our
relationships. But why not be what we really are? Why not let ourselves be free? Why not
face our attitude, our fears, and see where they really come from? Why not see that our
fears are our malleable interpretations of the world...which we can destroy? Why? Why?
Because you are afraid. But what you are even more afraid of is to face the fact that the
mind, which you try so hard to rationalize with, may not be there in time. What if the
mind was not there? What if I hit you with a frying pan? What if I gave you permanent
amnesia? Your entire illusion would be warped. Frightening? No. Not to the brave. One must
accept the fact that the mind can die completely, if one wishes to make the mind a gift, a
plaything, instead of a hindrance. The brave have already faced it or continue to face it,
and be with it. They are consumed by the fear, they become it, until there is no fear
left, until they have nothing left to be harmed. The brave accept the possibilities
and deal with them without fears. The brave strive only to be more free. The brave have
the courage to go beyond what they may perceive. The brave may touch what the world really
is. They could touch how similar we all are without the illusions which bind us. The brave
know what true freedom is because they have found the point of courage that is beyond any
rationalization. It is the point where one is not their concept of courage or anyone
else's concept, but they are courage. Courage itself. Freedom itself. Personal peace
itself, without an illusion attached to it. Their minds use the illusions to learn and
perpetuate. They use, but are not reigned. They are pure, even if they seem impure
to someone else. The world, the cowards, may never understand. But it is up to them if
they wish to cling to suffering. It is up to the individual to make themselves independent
and free. Fight well that battle within. It is the only fight that is ultimately not a
game. It is the only game that can destroy or save you in this concrete world.
Stephan Pacheco-Founder of LibertyCore |
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