Freedom is not the freedom to do as we please, but the freedom to do what needs to be done, moment to moment in each situation as it arises. Will we be in bondage to our desires, bound to do what pleases us? Or, will we be in bondage to what needs to be done? Can we live so that doing what needs to be done is what pleases us the most? Freedom is the freedom to choose to what we will owe fealty, liege loyalty, filial devotion, life-long service and duty. The freedom to do what needs to be done binds us to a strict regimen of seeing/hearing/knowing/doing what needs to be done, moment to moment, day by day, all our life long. Nothing is more necessary and essential than this in all of the 10,000 things.
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Comes in real handy during retirement,too!
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I think spiritual development, which I see as devotion to what needs to be done here/now/forever, must be delayed until retirement, or until we are old enough to have time to devote to the tasks of life that remains to be lived, which are different as we age, and we can be more “hermit-tically” sealed into a more expansive understanding of what needs to be done beyond our obligations to family and employment. We have to be a certain age before we can exercise our “freedom to be in bondage” to the right things.
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