An attempt to understand absolute freedom.
If we are free, does that freedom bring the best wisdom from experience? If yes, then the more free, the less confusion, as the freedom leads to a broad experience to realize what is closest to the best.
If we are free, does that freedom bring the best wisdom from experience? If not, then the more free, the more confusion, as the freedom does not lead to a broad experience to realize what is closest to the best.
Does freedom increase knowledge? If freedom does not increase knowledge, then it means enjoying the fruits of freedom rather than liberating oneself, maintaining freedom in the process of enjoying the situation.
What does it mean? That seeking freedom of knowledge would narrow choices but broaden opportunities. That seeking freedom to enjoy the situation would narrow opportunities but broaden choices, which also increases the confusion that needs to be addressed.
Freedom of Experience - Opportunity
The more freely one experiences, the more capable one becomes of maintaining an experience, a sustained consistency. This can be done because freedom in experience further trains skills within that experience itself.
Simply put, the more one experiences freedom, the more one should be trained gradually - experienced gradually.
Freedom of Knowledge - Choice
The freer one is in knowledge, the more capable one becomes of realizing the best choices. This can be done because freedom in knowledge expands awareness of the good/bad risks of all available choices.
Simply put, the freer one is in knowledge, the more careful one should be in observing choices, which means also leaning towards the best choices.
Dealing with Freedom Tactically
Do you have free will? If not, does your situation lead to the best choices? If yes, your lack of freedom (unconsciously) results from the freedom to expand knowledge to realize the good and bad risks to narrow down to the best. A quality lack of freedom from an exploration of freedom process.
If this isn't what you're facing, it means you are not unfree but oppressed. Because our freedom or lack thereof is not a state of non-oppression, but should be recognized as an effort to optimize our limitations.
Assessing Freedom Tactically
You're free? But selfish, meaning restricting yourself from obtaining the best rights and responsibilities, you're actually not free.
You're not free? But able to fulfill the best rights and responsibilities, you're not oppressed, and your lack of freedom is a quality condition.
Real freedom is not just about the ability to act according to personal desires, but also about awareness of rights and obligations in a social and moral context.
OPPRESSION
Freedom has no relation to oppression but is simply an adaptive process to optimize the best choices or mastery of experiences.
This means that if you feel unfree because of oppression, it's not the lack of your freedom, but your weakness in seeking help not to be oppressed. Because the oppressed can be called free if their condition is the best from the perspective of anticipating the best possible risks and maintaining rights and responsibilities.
You are oppressed if you cannot fulfill rights and responsibilities.
Differentiate between feeling unfree due to oppression even though rights and obligations are still fulfilled. This means you are not unfree but have essentially achieved the best position (fulfilling rights and responsibilities), but oppressed due to unfulfilled selfishness (this has nothing to do with lack of freedom).
UNFREEDOM
If everything is an indication of apparent freedom that has been predetermined, then it is the best freedom as it depends on the best wisdom rather than dependence on more limiting conditions.
As we always depend on something else, our freedom is always measured by where we can place ourselves in the best dependence on knowledge and experience, that's a quality dependence.
On the other hand, if our lack of freedom is a compulsion, then that compulsion is as it should be beyond our control, which means it confirms our freedom based on a higher freedom. What does it mean?
SOURCE OF FREEDOM
If a higher freedom regulates us with our lack of freedom, then our lack of freedom is actually limited freedom because it comes from a more free source.
Absolutely, it can be understood like this: "if the source only has freedom," then the consequence will certainly reflect more limited freedom as a result. Likewise, we, as the cause, are able to give freedom to others as a limited consequence for others.
RELATIVE-ABSOLUTE
📌 Relatively - empathy: distinguish between unfreedom & oppression, measured by the fulfillment of rights and responsibilities or (securing) solely selfish motives.
〰 Responsibility (should) mature us, and maturity (should) optimize our potential, and it is the process of expanding boundaries that is liberating
📌 Absolutely: realize that something cannot exceed its own limits unless there is an addition from outside, so if you believe you are under the influence of a fundamentally free source, then there is no other choice but only the freedom of the cause, which certainly also provides limited freedom to the consequence (because the cause is superior to the consequence).
Simply put, if the origin is "sweet," then the rest cannot possibly taste sour, unless it's only to the extent that the sweetness decreases.
🔰 SO, What model of freedom do you mostly do? Egoistic, neutral or universal?
RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVE
If this is translated into religion, then the initial Source is the Absolute Cause of God, who is unlimited, so having the freedom of will that can be given to the consequences of His creation as limited freedom, not unfreedom. Because the initial Cause does not have unfreedom, only absolute freedom, so all of His creations can inherit freedom but as a consequence (His creation), it certainly becomes reduced (diminished) in their freedom according to His will, which positions us as certain consequences. However, in absolute terms, it cannot be said that there is no freedom, except for limited freedom.
Understanding this, even if it seems strange - not in line with daily feelings, it still needs to be emphasized because it adheres to the principle of absolute truth.
Being able to overcome such things (based on true knowledge) will help us reaffirm our attitudes, both outwardly and inwardly, without being trapped in repetitive doubts.
It also helps in an attitude of surrender and struggle in a balanced way without feeling unreasonably intimidated.
PARADIGM OF FREEDOM
🧩 Freedom is not merely about 'having free will', but rather about being in a state that liberates, regardless of whether it is only to a limited extent.
Because if freedom is confined to just 'free will', it does not necessarily mean that free will can optimize our range of movement based on our potential. However, freedom in the sense of reducing limitations, even though there are still limitations to free will, constitutes a liberation that diminishes constraints.
