What is true freedom?

Question from the Internet:

“Is freedom truly free?”

Freedom is never free. Freedom would only be free if a single person existed alone in reality.

The moment one exists together with others, the moment one’s existence depends on any external factor or force; freedom comes at the expense of something.

And when we examine our lives, we are not free on multiple levels.

We exist in a vast, all-encompassing Natural system. All the forces and resources that create and sustain life comes from the Natural system. So we cannot be free or independent of Nature whatever we think or try. Moreover, we exist even in the “human world” surrounded by billions of others. And as we learn, see, and gradually feel, this human world is globally integrated, interconnected, and fully interdependent.

In truth — and this difficult and initially unpleasant revelation is awakening in our days — we are but individual cells in a single “Human body,” and this “Human body” is an integral part of Nature’s fully integrated system.

So what freedom can we speak about?

Is there any point in talking about “individual freedom” or “individual rights” when I am a single cell or cogwheel of a system I do not control?

And if this is the situation and cannot change this situation since it is out of my control, why do I feel miserable, and why do I yearn for and dream about something I can never achieve?

What is causing our constant strife and crisis situations? Why can’t we simply agree to our mutually integrated and mutually complementing state like the rest of Nature? Why do we have to fight others and the whole system searching for illusory and unreachable personal and individual freedom?

It turns out that we are governed, tortured, and destroyed by a unique tyrant inside ourselves. We are controlled, incited, and harmed by our own egos that try to make us believe in individual freedom and fight for it incessantly, even if it completely destroys everything!

So what is true freedom, then?

True freedom is selflessly and unconditionally dissolving into Nature’s life-giving and life-nurturing system and sensing true life and the incessant and unbounded flow of energy, mutual communication, and “Natural love” that sustains the whole system. True freedom is a sense of existence above and independent of the egocentric and subjective limitations of time, space, and physical motion, when the past, present, and future merge together into a single, ever-lasting moment which is the dynamic and extremely exciting combination of myriads of contrast and states that change with infinite frequency.

What is the price of this true freedom?

Giving up, rising above, controlling, and harnessing the incredible driving power of the ego. The price is learning how to use the insatiable desire and yearning of the ego for the sake of others and the whole system's well-being.

Are we ready and willing to pay the price for true freedom and a perfect and infinite existence?