Freedom

Recommendation – How to read the words in the New Dictionary:

A word is a vessel through which essence, energy passes. The word is never the thing itself.

What is the real “thing”? It is good to answer this question in silence.

Therefore the invitation to this dictionary is “tricky”; it seems like it tries to replace one “definition” with another “definition” but it does not. This dictionary is an opportunity to look at a word from a different perspective than we are used to. And ask what is the essence of this word, coming from the mystery? From nature? From the inconceivable knowing that everything is one, everything is motion and I am a part of it?
From here you will find that the new “definition” sometimes sounds poetic or even irritating to the mind, because it cannot understand it. It’s OK. Let the words be a tool and listen to the energy that passes through them. That’s exactly what we came here to do.

Coming out of the knowing that everything is connected and everything is in motion:

Freedom is a state of being. A state of being that is me. When I stop believing that there is a time for work and a time for vacation, that there are times that I must do something and times that I don’t need to, when I recognize the thought that I “must” and “need” things in the world to be satisfied and whole, and I cease believing it – the conditions disappear.

The reality created: I am more present in the present moment. One moment gives birth to the next, motion creates motion, action emerges from itself without effort. I am connected to my being at all times. I am not separate from the motion of life, I am not limited by the world of fear and thoughts.

“I am free…..
And of all the clothes that I’ve worn in my life
This simple and naked truth
Is more flattering to me than anything else
And I didn’t even need to search for anything outside.”

Chelli Reuven

We got used to thinking that

Freedom is vacation, a situation I aspire to so that I can be where I want to be, so that I can do what I want to do when I want to do it. I believe that this is the only way I will be happy. This understanding of freedom also says that there are people and situations that can take my freedom from me, prevent me from being who I am and how I want to be, and in this way darken my life and hold me prisoner. Life becomes dangerous, requires effort to deal and, by its very essence, makes me suspicion.

When freedom is seen as vacation, something separate from my normal life, it becomes this time that I need to make space for in my busy and overloaded daily existence. It is the time I wait for in order to rest, to relax, to enjoy, to connect to myself. It is the opposite of routine. It is leaving the routine. It is a time when I renew energies, when I refill my battery. Only when I am on vacation can I allow myself to flow, to develop, to see new things in myself and do new things in my life that I don’t normally dare to see or do. In the old world, I yearn for freedom most of the time.

The reality created: Whenever I am not “on vacation” I yearn for vacation. I yearn for freedom. This means that most of the time I feel trapped and limited and it is hard for me to see and enjoy the beauty of life.