Truth as Freedom

This was written for a friend who was not able to attend a talk on Truth & Freedom which I gave one "Red Letter Sunday" at my Unitarian church. (I should add for any  new readers that religion, Philosophy, science or what have you are but tools for me to coach with. I have no affiliation with any particular view or healing system.)

"You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free." ~Jesu

 It is typical that we assert facts and opinions as "Truth." then we discuss or even argue about them exchanging proofs in support of our position. I would like to present an alternative view based in the Jesus saying above. 

In the Aramaic tongue of Jesu, the term truth may be understood as "that which sets one free." 

As an example, if one is sick and then is healed, one has had AN ENCOUNTER WITH TRUTH - one is freed of the condition. This would apply if the condition of dis-ease were say; one of paralyzingly fear, or chronic reactive anger. So too if the issue was one of bondage to a limiting belief and a shift occurred toward a clarity of perception which allowed a more empowering belief to replace it. 

All of these transitions may be viewed as a "healing", or a release from a set limitation into a greater freedom of being/doing/having. Yet it is not the "method" used to attain such a liberation of conditions, but the release itself which is an "experience" of Truth. In other words, metaphysically speaking, Truth is the recognition and restoration of the prior condition of wholeness and harmony - with that sense of euphoria or well being, or peace, which mystics assert are our birthright and the native state of spirit abiding in its purity. 

Thus the Buddhists search for Truth as nirvana or the Christians search for heaven are both metaphors for that Truth which is the enduring and original state of perfect freedom and the happiness attendant to it. 

Whether in the role of healer or spiritual guide the common ground of practice is the work of revealing the underlying truth of our freedom. Going a bit deeper it is understood that the bondage of another is our bondage too, so one becomes a healer or guide in the cause of liberating others through the power of Truths revelation.

This is the essence of the Bodhisatva vow. It is a commitment to find skillful means to free living beings from the (self inflicted) illusion or projection of the conditioned bondage experienced as the suffering of body and mind ... which obscures the deathless spirit in which we participate in this sacred Unity as born-less and endless life. Therefore Truth as considered here is a spiritual reality which bids no argument.