Freedom from restless thinking is real freedom

Freedom from the compulsion of thinking incessantly is real freedom. Your mind thinks from the moment you wake up in the morning until you fall asleep at night. It gives you no moment of rest. It creates thoughts and also receives thoughts from the outside. This habit is so strong and deeply embedded that nobody even thinks of changing it.

In this state you are not free. You may live in a free country; you may have economic independence, yet the mind keeps chaining you to a contant flow of useless and futile thoughts, mental images and worries.

Only by silencing the hectic mind you become able to enjoy true peace and freedom. The mind is made of thoughts, so it does what it knows well, which is thinking. It provides a constant mental movie. It is as if we are riveted in front of a screen, where we watch movies all the time. The movies are so real that we never question their validity.

If you could have been able to watch people's inner mind, you would have seen a very interesting spectacle. You would have seen each person living in a kind of closed, imaginary world, watching his/her thoughts.

You would have seen thoughts created by different minds float through the air, and are picked by others, who believe they are their own thoughts. They cherish these floating thoughts and talk, act and behave as if these thoughts are a part of them. So where is freedom?

You may live in a free country, yet in your inner life you may not be free. Real freedom means to be above thoughts and the mental world. It means becoming the master of your mind. It is being able to think and accept into your mind only the thoughts of your choice, and when there is no need to think, you just stop thinking.

Only when you are free from the compulsion of thinking you become free. You switch off the engine of your car when you arrive to your destination, because there is no necessity for it to keep on running. Why not do the same with the mind?

Imagine a state when mind is calm with not a ripple of a thought. In this state you become conscious of your inner self and know who you are. You feel your inner power. Happiness, which is inherent in each one of us, emerges when the walls of thoughts are removed. In this state there is no compulsion to think.

With the help of concentration, meditation, detachment, calmness, and the ability to filter and sift thoughts, without getting involved and swept by them, it is possible to reach and live in real and true freedom.