Personal Freedom!!
Hi Everybody
Not sure about you but I sometimes feel that our everyday freedoms and liberties are slowly being eroded away.
There is the soaring eagle,a classic symbol of freedom – but the eagle doesn‘t know this – it‘s merely acting as an integral part of the workings of nature. Its soaring and instinctive ability to ride the winds and thermals is as natural as is walking to us.
Our freedom too, could be equally illusionary, for freedom to us individually is based really on nothing other than subjective preference and choice. What is freedom for one person, could be a prison for someone else. Real freedom, really, is the freedom to be able to make choices. Our choices, however, are limited by the workings of the human world, in a similar sense that the eagle‘s choices are limited by the laws of nature.
The world is ruled by governments, by politics, by legislation, by rules and regulations, by finance, by cultures, by the laws of supply and demand, by the movements of commerce. All these are energies like the winds of nature, and it is how we ride these energies that allow us to fulfil, or not, our wishes and make our choices that ultimately deliver to us our personal idea of freedom.
The eagle starts learning early to become a master of the air – it could be called the art of synthesis – that is the combination of natural laws and a raptor, which produces a master of the air to be admired and revered for its prowess and its skill.
The eagle could not achieve this without the laws of nature and vice versa. The same holds true for us. Whether we are for or against anything in the civilized world is really subjective. What is objective is the fact that the machinations of civilization work in certain ways, and it is our observances of these energies, and actions through personal mastery and informed choices that allow us to survive, prosper, and live what we personally deem to be a free and fulfilling life.
Again, it is the art of synthesis: becoming a master of our world by working with the environ-mental energies of our civilization. To do this we must also be able to adapt, be versatile, and move with the shifting currents. Nothing is static – so keeping current is the key to being able to make the right decisions at the right time. Always… freedom will be a work in progress.
An early indication of how our freedoms are being slowly eroded away is the new Terminal 5 at London Heathrow airport with the introduction of Biometrics…or how you are able to get parking fines from being seen on a camera..is it really justified.. What do you think?
See you next time
Zahid