MONEY FREEDOM — to release yourself from being a 9–5 slave to be a free man. A man who lives accordingly to his schedule and doesn’t have to worry about feeding his family. This is the next stage for a 21st century man in terms of financial capability. The less time spent on making money, the better because he can dedicate more time and energy to his grand goals. However you get to this financial state, it is completely up to. Maybe start-off by taking inventory of your skills, talents and actions you do much better than others and you are in the top percentile. Also, whatever you choose to do, you must have passion for it. I would start at this intersection. Then, think of how you salvage your natural skills and how you can hone your skills further and find a way to monetize the byproduct of your skilled actions. Lastly, find a way to minimize time spent working to make money while maximizing your leisure time.
MENTAL FREEDOM — to release himself from his pre-conceived notions, pre-conceived perceptions and to attain perception-less awareness. Whenever a man is confronted with a situation or a question to respond to, he automatically refers to his made-up base of mental framework upon which he bases his response. There is a saying that goes something along the lines of “Give a hammer to a man and all his problems become nails” which perfectly expresses what I am meaning. The hammer in this case is your pre-conceived mental framework. We are not aware of this structured and rigid process of thinking because one, it subconsciously happens instantaneously, two, we are so used to thinking like this for the last however many years we have lived.
But to regain our mental freedom, we must drop the hammer consciously however long it may require until we can have a completely objective sense of reality. Achieving mentally free state is the same state as being directionless, thoughtless, pattern-less, frameless, structure-less but completely empty.
We must learn to get in the habit of dropping the hammer first thing in the morning and always checking ourselves if we are in a mentally free state or not until the habit becomes our second nature. An effective test to confirm whether you have achieved such state is if you can be aware of the reality without any judgement. Also, a good place to start would be to set a goal where you can be thoughtless, emotionless, frameless, perception-less and just pure nothingness for five minutes without trying or forcing while being aware. It looks deceptively easy but actually it is really hard. Being aware of everything at once while not focusing on anything is completely new concept to our mind. Theoretical understanding won’t bring much difference, but experiential understanding will bring a significant change. When you are aware of everything, the decision comes to you naturally and you cannot be wrong because your decision is based on every detail. Your decision simply cannot miss to hit the target. And if you do not doubt yourself and perform as per your perfect decision, your action will always bring your desired result. Mental freedom is this powerful tool if mastered. This skill alone will put anyone in the top 0.0001 percentile of the whole human population in the world.
