Haha well yet again we are making the same discoveries, I had essentially the same experience yesterday which related to gladly being willing to appear foolish.
When I wrote the 2 posts yesterday, first describing success with allowing sensuousness and then shortly making a turn around to find it a dead end there and ending with what appeared to me like a ‘childish’ story of wanting to go into a ghost realm to safe my ex girlfriend
Afterwards there was that feeling of, “am I being a fool”, “am I just all over the place” etc. I realised though that I was no longer willing to let something like this stop me from doing anything I can do become actually free. It was exactly how Richard describes naiveté, that it is an aspect of oneself that one has locked away for fear of appearing foolish. And now I had unlocked that place within ‘myself’. I realised that I would gladly appear a fool and I would gladly appear to be all over the place, because what I am actually doing is placing this goal of becoming actually free from the human condition as more important than anything else. That I would gladly be wrong a million times if this is what it takes to do it.
This “being careful as not to get things wrong / appear a fool / go against some script” has blocked ‘me’ for long enough, it was the default way ‘I’ lived ‘my’ life. This seems like a little thing but it is not, because naiveté is such an important ingredient to success. This need not to appear foolish meant that ‘I’ had to maintain some kind of severity/solemnity, that ‘I’ had to remain serious to some degree, ‘I’ had to maintain ‘myself’. And it is hard to make discoveries when one is being so damn careful!
It is so nice to be able to interact with others without this serious aspect. Shortly after this discovery I was working one of my hen parties and what a wonderful thing it was to be freely liking and likeable with “a bunch of strangers” (not experienced like this though). It was clear that they liked me and I liked them too, and in this atmosphere everyone could and did have a ball!
I would take this further and say that it is not even that you “constrain” the total rang of possible actions, this would again be splitting yourself and using some kind of outside tool as an arbiter, in this case the tool of silly vs sensible. Rather you simply do not want those things.
Sure I could go and do anything right now (there is a range of horrors available to inflict) and more than any tool or morality or the law, the reason I don’t do these is because I don’t want to. It is because I care about my fellow human beings.
I do not see it any different in actual freedom but just much more in that direction, there cannot be any constraints / lack of ability to act there of course otherwise it wouldn’t be actual freedom.