The freedom to Choose or Freedom to See?

Choice presents itself when there is a conflict between virtue and confusion. Choice would never present itself in a mind that is virtuous. When there is a need to choose, meaning we need to choose right, or wrong, positive or negative, make a list of pros and cons and choose the one the has more pros, is thought not also present in choice? And if so, is thought, being the expression of our recorded upbringing, culture, education, values, what puts us in the position to choose? To see this, one can ask, why do we need to choose at all? When I am clear on which way I need to go, for example I go home, I know which roads lead me to the house, and I also know if it’s blocked, which other streets lead me home. Then conflict does not present itself. It’s only when I am not sure about something, that analysis kicks in and defines a need to choose. If in that analysis, we ourselves are confused then conflict presents itself.

Let’s take an example. Perhaps I am choosing which college course I should take - should I choose based on which one might give me a better salary, or a more secure job, or which one I might be happier doing, or which one is closer to my family and so forth. Or when I need to choose a partner, do I need to consider which nationality they side with, which belief system they conform to, etc. So choice arises whenever there is some confusion.

What’s important here is to understand that thought is limited in its ways. It’s not the tool we employ to fix things that it itself, broke. Therefore, be aware of how your conditioned mind is trying to lead you to what it knows and how it might prevent you from seeing what it doesn’t know. But if you cannot see, freedom is nowhere to be found.

Love and light,

Gab