Wow, Bobby~ hope you're subscribing to your post-- haha!!

In terms of the title of this thread, actual freedom is the state of wallowing in complete reality right now.

Complete Reality teaching calls this "jumping in and floating around in the center of the compass".

"Jumping in" is realizing, acknowledging and accepting one's inherent enlightening function, and using it to adapt to conditions without relying on one's own power unbeknownst to anyone.

This Center is the immaterial incipience of the real body of awareness which has no location.

This "no location" is not somewhere else; it's nowhere else: it's already you before the first thought.

Freedom can only be in terms of its relative, which is conditions. Enlightening aware being is free of conditions as is. It is not a state of separation from conditions. It is not even different than the unattributble nature of conditions, that is, creation— though it is itself uncreated.

Complete Reality tradition exemplifies the thrust of all authentic teachings based on reality. Reality is the substance of conditions, not conditions themselves. Those who see reality see through the conditional and use its potential as the means to adapt impersonally to situational energy-cycles whereby they transform along with creation without experiencing Change unawares.

Where does freedom come in? It's freedom from karmic momentum. Karmic momentum is psychological. It's also dependent on ignorance of it's nature. Freedom is awakened to its nature. It's the same nature. It's functioning in the world, the eternity of creation, all time, as a partner of creation, without being subject to changes wrought by circumstantial process.

Spiritual alchemy is using the pure from within the false by not being subject to the false: that's the relativity of freedom, in terms of Complete Reality taoism.

Though we are none other than the totality of world-cycles (and beyond), who this is, is neither conditions nor their absolute nature. Who are those who actually know this, and can act on this knowledge? In taoist terms, the world is the sage. Sage is the embodiment of Suchness, the buddhist term to denote reality as is, neither conditional nor absolute. Sages, saints, buddhas, wizards, prior and present illuminates and all enlightening being(s) know the totality of the being that is going to die. Real knowledge is the potential of being, not created.

Relative to unity, what is there to be free of? Enlightening beings are comprized of the Virtue of the Receptive. The world comes to them naturally. Such is the nature of the Way, which is the nature of the true self which has no self. Freedom is a relative term denoting knowing better. "Better" is a relative term too. This is not philosophy. It is a description of the functional basis of adepts of complete reality.

Complete Reality taoism is a teaching of realization of primordial unity and its manifestation by subtle means through those who can act on nonpsychological awareness. Seeing reality is seeing potential. Seeing potential is the reality of nondifferentiation. Those who know the essence of conditions operate in terms of essence while in the midst of the incremental, that is, temporal existence.

Freedom is knowledge and actualization of selflessness (unity) adapted to ordinary situations unbeknownst to anyone for the purpose of enlightening being. Taoism calls those who are receptive to Virtue "real people". The Way has its Power, and those who carry it out do so without relying on their own power. This is why "the master carpenter does not cut."

I have only responded to your thread-starter's title~ as for the "snippets" provided by Thomas Cleary, those are sublimely self-evident, even so, arriving at the functional edification of the words you recognized as significant enough to include in your post, is the purpose of all authentic teaching.

Evidently, no one has ever had the temerity to respond to this thread!!

i doo~ heehee❤︎❤︎!!