Awareness itself is always free.

If you are completely aware

in this moment,

watching what is arising

instead of being caught up

in what is arising,

then the experience is freedom.

Yet if you remain aware

without getting caught up,

at some point it will no longer

feel like freedom.

The urge to again attach

yourself and identify yourself

to what is here

is so strong

that eventually

it will overpower awareness

and again you will identify

with what is here in order

to release this build up

of pressure.

Many will simply

dip in and out

of awareness.

They will have a taste of awareness

and then go back to identification

and in this way,

the bliss of awareness

begins to flow over

into mind identification.

This is certainly one method.

Another method

is to consciously lengthen

that time of awareness

or even break out of that

urge to identify with thinking

all together.

Then there is the willingness

to do whatever it takes;

to commit yourself

to spiritual practice

and disciplines

which are conducive to awareness.

You really either fall in love

with awareness

or you are so desperate

to break out of mind identification

that you give yourself fully to the task.

And although outer things

get addressed like

diet, exercise, relinquishing

addictions, creating an enlightened

energetic environment around you,

there is an inner movement

that takes place:

The willingness to remain

firm in awareness

use whatever techniques

or non techniques

to break through that

urge to identify with the mind.

Or, through observation,

you pick that

mind identification mechanism apart piece by piece

until it breaks,

until you are released

into an unconditional awareness

that does not pull you back.

In this method

you most likely move beyond

the social aspect

of spirituality,

you go beyond the beliefs

and ideas of how it is supposed

to be and investigate for yourself

what really is true in this moment,

what really works for you

to fully awaken to freedom.

And what really works

maybe completely

different than what

you thought it would be.

You come out the other end

completely different

than who you thought you were

in the first place.

And that is magnificent,

that is true freedom.

To realize bliss

all ideas of who you think

you are and what you know

fly out the window.