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Might be happiness for some, but it’s certainly not freedom, in any normal sense of the word.

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In what sense? Aside from whether it’s practical to really desire nothing, if you could wouldn’t you be free by definition because you could do and have absolutely everything you wanted, that being nothing?

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Nobody wants nothing, that’s conceptually silly

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At the very least and no matter how humble your threshold is, everyone wants food, shelter and some kind of company.

The first 2 cannot be attained for free in our world’s ergo, you cannot be free from whatever obligations you may incurr to procure them

This is all nice theoretical advice… Not to be used literally in practice

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Buddhism?

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Yup

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I mean. sounds like buddhism.

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As someone who is driven to create, this is just not true for me. I am constantly wanting this or that in order to create something magical. Just accepting what is, does not lead to creation. Being creative is freedom for me.

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