Living free and the love of truth | FCF Talk

Why don’t we live free? There are many fake answers and only one true answer. The true answer is that we don’t want to. It’s not important to us. It doesn’t require much to see this, but it requires the very thing that is missing: earnest and honest love for truth. The truth means what *is*.
What is this love of truth? Is it a rational, cultivated will? Is it a virtue that one can develop or act upon, increase, or decrease? Or is it the absence of these-the absence of cultivated actions of will? What is the love of truth? Is it that which resonates most deeply as yourself, that which aligns with you naturally, holistically, beyond reason and measure?
To live free-isn’t it to walk away from anything that makes you not free? Attachments, conditions, limitations, pre-set ideas. Because we don’t live free, we cannot be happy. There is a constant conflict between the nature of life and the actuality of a living presence.
Ask yourself: Does the love of truth guide your observation? Is your observation an expression of that love? Or is it just an empty idea? Ask yourself: Is the reality of your life-that which *is*-dear to your heart? Is the seeing of it, the truth of it, dear to your heart more than any imagined projection, dream, belief, or hope?
Meeting truth is the quality of the now*. Meeting truth is the expression of the love of truth, which is the love of freedom. Why don’t you live free? Why do you lock yourself in the idea that you need to *become free so that your life will be lived with this quality? Can you see the deceit in such an idea?
There is an aspect of responsibility in living your life free-in living away from anything that dictates what the "right" life is. Free as the air. There is great responsibility in that. To whom will you be responsible if you live free? To people around you. Society, family-they expect you to live within a certain set of rules and expectations. To yourself. If you were responsible for yourself, you would live free, wouldn’t you?
But there is an invisible dimension: the responsibility to freedom itself. You are here, and you live because of what people might say, the free will, or the will of the absolute universe-or whatever else. Only in living free do you become responsible to that freedom. Responsible, meaning not interfering with the grace of existence. And that’s when what is can only be lived as it is, without intervention. This is the meaning of living free.
You, as you are, with all your baggage, live free for no reason. In total responsibility to freedom itself-to what *is*, as it is. Live free, and live free today. Be willing to deal with the consequences. Don’t obey, don’t meet expectations, don’t limit yourself to what someone-or even you-think is right. First, be free. Then see what is truly authentic.
Intuition is a complicated term because it can be defined. But intuition is the language of the undefined, the uncontrolled, the unknown, the unexpected. To live by intuition doesn’t mean to gamble or to be disconnected or irresponsible. On the contrary, to understand true intuition, to meet its beauty, and to live by it-this is the true responsibility to freedom.
You will know when the time comes. That’s the only thing you can be certain of. You don’t need to know in advance. Can you live like that? Can you live by that? Not by the words, but by the essence.
Perhaps the value of this talk is that the next time you hear a complaint within yourself-that you don’t have freedom in your life-you can return to the question: Do you live free, regardless of conditions? Do you live free because of the love of truth and the wish to meet what *is*, exactly as it is, no matter what? Without preparation, without conditions, without limits, without knowing?
If you can see the beauty in this question, you are already there.