timwarnock

Is there a word for absolute and rapturous freedom?

Imagine:
No debt, no obligations
Nothing pinning you down
No promises to fulfil and no deadlines pending
No todo list haunting your sleep
And no ego, not even a 'you' to be burdened

Is there a word for such unconstrained freedom?

I was once a dreamer.

Wake up, they said, to the real world.

This real world, this actual world, have you discovered it?

Wherever I looked– the academic, the artist, the banker, the politician, the hipster, the mechanic, the soldier, the revolutionary– all with the same striving suffering, each with their own sense of status and importance. All with opinions, beliefs, and ideologies — wake up to the real world, they said.

This real world, this actual world, this earth spinning freely through space — trapped to that radiant star — this actual world, does it care about your status, belief, or ideology? Or is life indifferent to every opinion and belief?

Whether you submit or rebel, it is always to an idea that exists exclusively in your mind, is that not also a fantasy — is that not a dream?

This real world, this actual world, is completely independent of your wants, fears, and sufferings.

Yet you, and only you, are dependent on judgments and ideologies — dependent on your idea of status and importance. You are an illusion within an illusion, all the while there is a real world, an actual world — free of suffering and bounding in endless bliss — this real world, this actual world, is in front of your face in each and every moment. It is there, independent of you, and you may discover it or you may continue to dream.

Let go
The word is never the thing

Everything is moving, and
Everything dies -- Let go

There is no past, no future, there is only now
Moment-to-moment awareness -- Let go

Experience the unknown
Leave nothing of self -- Let go

There is no Truth to find -- Let go

Life is perfect and fundamentally simple
The past and the future are now
The meaning of life is now

There is no you, only the continuous experience
of life anew

All thoughts and all knowledge are filters to action
beautifully mechanistic in perfect process

Let go -- Let go of everything

Formless, experience anything

I am planning an exhibit-ready series (8-12 pieces), tentatively titled "Absolute and Total Freedom"

A state of mind, beautifully detached
free of the confines of self
free of illusion, be it god, country, or status
free of fear
free of all judgment

Freedom from the certainty of opinion
Where knowledge is not to be worshiped
Where knowledge is nothing but the filter to action
A mind aware, it is neither open nor closed, simply free

Freedom from time
The past and present are now, as
Living and dying are now

There is continuous uncertainty, never agreeing nor disagreeing, an
Inexhaustible silence of absolute and total freedom

We all desire to live freely, to create our values and perceptions, and to experience the best of life. My role as an artist is to connect us to the powerful truth that we can do these things.

An experienced artist, I have a background in computational mathematics, computer science, and fine-art; most of my work is a fusion of photographic and technical expertise with the coarse and abundant beauty of nature.

Traveling the world I have experienced the shared humanity and compassion that binds us in this wonderful struggle for existence.  Every culture, every person, and every bit of life is fundamentally connected-- and it is through art, our creative expressions, that we experience this shared bliss of being.

This is the message I convey in my art, and it is the shared song in all our hearts.