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And it seems very fundamental to understand why Buddha emphasizes freedom so
much. Neither God is emphasized nor heaven is emphasized nor love is emphasized,
but only freedom. There is a reason for it: all that is valuable becomes possible only in
the climate of freedom. Love also grows only in the soil of freedom; without freedom,
love cannot grow. Without freedom, what grows in the name of love is nothing but lust.
Without freedom there is no God. Without freedom what you think to be God is only
your imagination, your fear, your greed. There is no heaven without freedom: freedom
is heaven. And if you think there is some heaven without freedom, then that heaven has
no worth, no reality. It is your fancy, it is your dream.
All great values of life grow in the climate of freedom; hence freedom is the most
fundamental value and also the highest pinnacle. If you want to understand Buddha
you will have to taste something of the freedom he is talking about.
His freedom is not of the outside. It is not social, it is not political, it is not economic. His
freedom is spiritual. By “freedom” he means a state of consciousness unhindered by any
desire, unchained to any desire, unimprisoned by any greed, by any lust for more. By
“freedom” he means a consciousness without mind, a state of no-mind. It is utterly
empty, because if there is something, that will hinder freedom; hence its utter
emptiness.