May (7) We Feel Freedom's Unbounded Nature

I don't know if you happen to know this or not--actually I just discovered this the other day and I have this sneaking suspicion that it is going to have profound implications for me for some time to come--but you can literally feel freedom. What I discovered is that there is a felt-sense of Freedom that registers in/as/through awareness.

Let me say this another way--more concisely: consciousness can be free and unbounded... or consciousness can be limited and enslaved. Even more importantly, you can literally feel the degree of freedom present in this moment right now by sensing the degree of openness... or lack thereof... that registers to you when you check in on yourself.

For instance, do you feel tight? Do you feel pressured? Do you feel heavy, weighted down, cramped, trapped? Do you feel as if there are chains on you, holding you back? Are you left feeling tied down?  

Or, are is there a sense of opneness and spaciousness present as you sense the Now? What does this moment feel like to you? How are you oriented to the present? Does the present, and what you are faced with make you want to recoil, contract, tighten, clench up? Or is there a melting away of identity and self so that awareness itself becomes boundaryless?

Why do I think it is important to 'feel where we are at' and 'register the nature of consciousness to ourself?' Well, I think it is important.... check that... I know it is important because where we are at in terms of our consciousness will in-form our actions. In the simplest and most succinct terms I can put it, we will either act from Freedom or act from Bondage, period.

In each and every moment we are either acting as a slave or acting as a liberated being. Of course, this spectrum that goes from bondage to freedom, and back again, may have some gradations, i.e., we can be more or less open and unbounded, more or less weighted down and crippled by the chains of the past and so forth. But to say that we are either acting from a position of enslavement and bondage or a position of Freedom and Liberation is, to me anyways, a way for us to cut straight to the Heart of the Matter.

The ramifications of this are simple and direct: in each moment we are either contributing to Liberation... or Bondage. In each moment... with each act in this-world... we are feeding the one or the other, Liberation or Bondage. And we can tell what we are contributing to by applying awareness to our consciousness and registering the degree of Freedom and Unboundedness present in that moment. You can feel It. You can sense the openness. The unbounded reach of awareness stretching beyond the horizon is an opening you are capable of right now, because It Is Your Nature. You are that Freedom. You cannot not be that Freedom. It is only and ever just a matter of deciding when you will allow your own Nature to you once again.

When will you open? When will you stop holding on to the not-you so that the You you are can be realized? When will you allow the heavy accumulations of the past that oppress you even when no one is around, even when no one is looking, even when you are all alone... when will you finally allow all of that to drop away so that you can recognize who you really are and what your Nature truly Is?

How long will you make your 'self' suffer so needlessly? Know that it need not be and that you are the Unbounded waiting to remember that you have never not been That.

Feel the weight of your holding on melt away... as you fall into a Self that has no bottom. That's who you are.

register to theWe can even hold possibilities in our mind's eye---alternative futures, if you will--and feel to what degree those different paths either contribute to Liberation or bar that same Liberation.