“Simple life does not consist in the mere possession of a few things but in the freedom from possession and non-possession, in the indifference to things that comes with deep understanding. Merely to renounce things in order to reach greater happiness, greater joy that is promised, is to seek reward which limits thought and prevents it from flowering and discovering reality. To control thought-feeling for a greater reward, for a greater result, is to make it petty, ignorant and sorrowful. Simplicity of life comes with inner richness, with inward freedom from craving, with freedom from acquisitiveness, from addiction, from distraction.”
~ J. Krishnamurti, 2 July 1944
Your quest to redeem ‘possession’ and ‘non-possession’ from the ‘possessed’, and thereby grant an exodus of an abstract state called the ‘promised freedom is an absence of presence.
In that state… there is no more any person left, either as a stoic, socratic, nihilist angs-tic, or as an epicurean ( a combination makes the human psyche a treasured specimen, [or an actor of more complex thing called the fictional destiny]). No doubt , a state to exist like what you’ve have said as ‘freedom’ would be ridiculous … as a silence or or the silence to stifle all that is human as shared meanings and existence.
Freedom is a shared state where where experiences are ‘challenged’ to assume/become ‘desires’. If they are selfless or selfish, they are only interpretations.
There are no silences or fullstops either in recollection, transition, accomodation, interpetation, assumption and in celebration.
There is nothing simple about simplicity either than its assumption; is there ? in that ’soul of a smile, always teasing life or even the puzzle to be its meaning.
spellpsy, I agree with you in that any attempt to explain the state called ‘freedom’ is vain, including yours.
Thanks for your comment. Wish you have a great time.
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