Liberation

The ego is that which identifies itself with this body, its circumstances, its history. Liberation occurs when awareness separates itself from identification with this ego. You no longer are “this” or “that,” but there is only the awareness of different aspects of life. There is the body, but it is no longer “your” body. There are feelings, but they are no longer “your” feelings. This is not a negation of the body or the feelings. It is just a decoupling of awareness from body, mind, and feelings. There is the experience of freedom from them.

You may ask, who is experiencing this freedom? The entirety of your being is experiencing this freedom and you are constantly amazed how beautiful life truly is. You do not have a “stake” in this life anymore. You are living it, but more in the sense of stepping into a river and being carried along by it. There is love of life and there is inner stillness.