{"id":46553,"date":"2022-04-20T10:11:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T10:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46553"},"modified":"2022-04-20T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T10:16:15","slug":"freedom-is-in-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/04\/20\/freedom-is-in-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom is in everything."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There\u2019s no freedom in finding answers to the questions of life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not even the best ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What am I doing here?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do bad things happen to good people?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What can I do to be liberated?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can I attain lasting happiness?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do angels exist, or is there God?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do we have free will?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is any of this even real?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deep stuff, but not crucial for freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freedom is not found in the answers, but in the realization that questions arise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s found in realizing that longing comes up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That hope is revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That suffering exists, for a while at least, before it leaves again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That there is sometimes relief, sometimes happiness, and sometimes shyness, elation, hunger, or thirst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that all of that, including questions AND answers, is seen and experienced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the realization itself, the constant awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Knowing of whatever happens, whatever is created, from the smallest to the biggest things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s the Knowing that is always present, no matter what happens in your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Knowing that is beyond past or future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The uniquely inclusive Knowing that is SO essential, so vast, so crucial, and so present, that we overlook it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because it doesn\u2019t come and go, like anything else, it\u2019s hidden in plain sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you can know that, deeper than any intellectual understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the direct recognition of being that space and that awareness, that has all the room and love in the world for any experience possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are that, this space that contains everything and creates everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can only be that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The endless space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deeply lost in personal, temporary experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lost in human life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But still, the space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The still space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by @knipszimmer, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no freedom in finding answers to the questions of life. Not even the best ones. What am I doing here? Why do bad things happen to good people? What can I do to be liberated? Can I attain lasting happiness? Do angels exist, or is there God? Do we have free will? Is any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[97,117,100,105,116,113,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46558,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46553\/revisions\/46558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}