swamyshiva asked:
We are not ourselves, so how can wed allow others to be themselves If you are not free you will not allow freedom to anybody else. If you are repressed you will not allow expression to others. If somebody is free and you yourself are not free, you will feel very depressed by the comparison. That’s how repression has been perpetuated down the ages. Parents were repressed by their parents; they have repressed their children, and these will repress their children.
To jump out of this chain is to jump out of the world. Then you are no more conditioned by anybody, and then you never condition anybody. Then you live in freedom and you impart freedom. But you can give only that which you have. Being you have not – how can you allow others? You are constantly finding ways and means to destroy the freedom of the other, to dominate, posses, to command, to force obedience. You are not at ease; you have not yet come home.
I have no discipline to teach to you because I have trusted utter freedom. And I know that if you can taste even a little bit of it, your whole life will be transfigured. People come and they say, “Give us some discipline, give us clear cut rules – what we should do and what we should not do. Why can’t you put it in a few commandments, like the Ten Commandments? Then it will be easy for us to follow and we will not be confused. Why do you confuse us?
I am not confusing you; I am simply giving you total freedom. Freedom is confusing because you have to decide every moment. I am not going to decide for you. Who I am to decide for you? You want somebody to take the whole responsibility. That’s what you ask: clear cut rules so that you need not be responsible. Whatsoever happens you can look in the book of commandments and follow the book. By and by you can memorize the book and then you can function through memory. Then there is no need to function through your centre.
If you really want to give freedom to others, you will have to begin at home. Everything begins at home. Be free, become a being; enjoy this tremendous freedom that life gives to you. Don’t follow any rules. Just follow one thing: your awareness decide fresh each moment what is to be free and how beautiful it is to be free. Be free and you will be able to allow more freedom. They work together…
Hailey
