To be free is your birthright, not to be bound.
It is only when you guide your steps along the
path illumined by the universal unbound Dharma
that you are really free; if you stray away from the light,
you get bound and you are caught.
Some might raise a doubt: How can Dharma,
Some might raise a doubt: How can Dharma,
which sets limits on thoughts and words and regulates
and controls, make a person free?
"Freedom" is the name that you give to
a certain type of bondage.
Genuine freedom is obtained only
when delusion is absent, when there is no
identification with the body and senses,
no servitude to the objective world.
People who have escaped from this servitude
and achieved freedom in the genuine sense are
very few in number.
Bondage lies in every act done with the consciousness
of the body as the Self, for one is then the plaything of the senses.
Only those who have escaped this fate are free;
this "freedom" is the ideal stage to which Dharma leads.
With this stage constantly in mind, one who engages in the
activity of living can become a liberated person
