Can deepening the feeling of being liberated lead to actual liberation?
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outcome
"Liberation is not a feeling to be deepened; it is the recognition of your true nature, revealed when desire and self-fabrication dissolve into simply being."
According to Osho, no: deepening a “feeling” of liberation can never yield liberation. Feeling fuels becoming and builds the world (maya); freedom is the end of becoming and of the compulsion to feel oneself as something. Liberation is your nature here-now, revealed when desire and self-fabrication cease and you simply consent to be exactly what you are.
Trying to feel free keeps you chasing; stop trying to become anything and just be as you are—freedom is already there.
Why this matters practically
- Ends restless striving by fostering contentment with your present being.
- Loosens identification with roles and emotions that create bondage.
- Shifts focus from self-improvement projects to direct, here-now recognition.
- Loosens identification with roles and emotions that create bondage.
- Shifts focus from self-improvement projects to direct, here-now recognition.
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