Release may look quite similar to Freedom, but have nothing to do with each other. - Mahagathe

Release may look quite similar to Freedom, but have nothing to do with each other.

शमथ। Samatha

On a rainy day ,you want the rain to go away, on a hot summer day you want the rain to come
sooner. This is the nature of the mind, because it is designed to create pathways. But this very
nature also lies at the root of escapist tendencies.

By design, mind is not at fault. But the way you use the mind can lead you to close the channels
instead of opening new pathways. This is because you are dissatisfied with the present and fail
to see the opportunities that lie within it. Instead, your dissatisfaction constantly provokes you to
look for a previously known state to come and rescue you. Often these kinds of mental
instabilities are equated with freedom or liberation.

Release is nothing more than a temporary change in the state of affairs. Freedom is the internal
state of equanimity irrespective of what goes on in the outside. One should seek changes not
because one cannot stand the present anymore, but one has exhausted the present to the
fullest. But can you really exhaust the present? That question is for another day.

Do not try to escape; own up. That’s how you become a creator.

Feel Blessed
Swastham Shantam Sampurnam