Freedom…is – not. No such thing as freedom exist. It’s an idea, a dream, an imagination, a fairy tale. In modern culture, freedom is the greatest of all illusions, attached to something like free will, free choice, to do what one wants. to consume what one desires. Freedom means to be able to fulfill desire. The idea of freedom is actually attachment. It can be taken away, it can be lost. Whatever can be taken away or be lost has nothing to do with freedom, but with privilege. And privilege is attachment. People are attached to their privileges. Freedom is the dream of the slaves.
Anything that asks for fulfillment has a price to be paid. Be it money, lifetime, labor, attention. Compromise. Anything that has to be paid for – no matter the currency – is not free. It’s a deal. Freedom, as it is sold, is a dream that is chased after. That can never be entirely realized.
In being human there is no freedom. A human is interdependent and interconnected, and cannot exist isolated from the environment. Even in solitude, the cellular organism is depending on oxygen to be alive, as it is breath and pulse, usually also needs food and water.
Choice is based on cultural conditioning, experience and education, as well as the heritage of the collective subconscious and epigenetics/DNA (cellular memory), that determine feeling, thought and action. There is no one to have choice. There’s no freedom of thought and feeling, there’s emergence and disappearance; however, thought and feeling might become recognized as fragments, “bits”, of social and cultural programming. They are information from the matrix, in which the human is embedded.
No freedom does exist for the isolated, separated self. Separation is not freedom. Attachment, desire, “doing what I want” is not freedom. However, when one realizes the great interdependence and interconnectedness of being alive, the shared breath, the shared collective mind, being part of a whole, vibrant organism, an undefined lifeform, greater than the imagined, separated self and individuum, rooted in a void that holds all there is, that is one in emergence and termination, freedom might transcend into liberation, which essence is peace. And this peace is independent, eternal sparkling in the flow of transience.