Independence, learning, life and love

the 4th of July
is over

thank
goodness

i love a parade
and
fireworks
and
a crowd
and a bunch
of people
having a "good time"

and still,
i'm glad it's over

does
4th of July
have something to do
with Freedom
with
Independence
and what would these words mean
in our lives
and in our being
if we didn't just spout
them

now,
around the world
there are repressive regimes
and our is better than most
for most people

and still:
what would real
freedom
mean?

when someone says something
we don't like:
what would freedom be
inside ourselves

when everyone else is doing
something
and wants us to join
and we don't really want to
what would freedom really
look like

when we always put the same
leg in our pants
first
and don't know that

when we go from sitting
to standing
and don't know how we do that

when we hold our breath
hundreds of times
a day
and don't know
that

what would a free life
be
as a being who
moves and thinks
and lives in society


????

those a questions.

what would it be like to have
more questions in our life?

what would it be like
to be okay
with "I don't know"
as a way of being
in a few
or many situations

not clueless,
but curious
really wanting to
understand:
who am I?
what is going on here?
how can I contribute to making it better?

and the great slavery:
the approval and disapproval
of others,
which the Work of Byron Katie
is so useful in
transforming the terror of the situation
into
humor

lot's of ways of
becoming more free.

try desk trainer,
link to right.

try the movement classes coming up,
learn how many more and delightful
ways you could move and be

go into silence
when your "it"
your conditioned
me conditioned
our conditioned
robot person
is screaming to let loose the same
old
same old

lots
of ways

and one
way:
start
to learn
how to think

we all think
we know how
to think
because we have words in
our head

but what would
real thinking,
free thinking,
independent
(which doesn't have to be some stereotypically defiant mode)
thinking
be?

lots of not know
and to be
on the way
to discovering

eh??