{"id":32098,"date":"2024-04-29T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T07:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/?p=32098"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:27:43","slug":"true-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/en\/2024\/04\/29\/true-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"True freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1f32288baef9a2de71c09a794485272b\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">True freedom <br>Why qualify? <br>Is there such <br>A big thing as <br>False freedom <br>Like any illusion <br>Right and wrong <br>Or just whatever <br>One makes of it <br>Twists &#8216;nd turns <br>Until it may fit <br>For one or all <br>One&#8217;s illusion <br>All is freedom <br>To take some <br>Honest effort<br> For tuning in <br>Gradually <br>Ever more <br>In time here <br>In space now <br> Consciousness <br>So being soul <br>In the human <br>Body &#8216;nd mind <br>Welcome thus <br> To this species <br>On our planet <br>Free to love!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7c1f20c7ca40a63d76b4fe5885d596db\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">&#8220;Pebbles in the pond&#8221; &#8212; a touch of a raga<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024-04-16-CB-PEBBLES-IN-THE-POND.mp3\" preload=\"metadata\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f7b320\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Bairagi Bhairav raag based on C# &#8212; Christina Braun: voice &#8212; Ulrico: 8-string guitar &#8212; 5:38 <\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-106216048d1b5c229d7804c42b48261b\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">A brief for the defense &#8212; wood and fire<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ffc50eddfc159baf7e6daee2068ad23a\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">&#8220;Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies<br>are not starving someplace, they are starving<br>somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils.<br>But we enjoy our lives because that&#8217;s what God wants.<br>Otherwise the mornings before summer dawn would not<br>be made so fine. The Bengal tiger would not<br>be fashioned so miraculously well. The poor women<br>at the fountain are laughing together between<br>the suffering they have known and the awfulness<br>in their future, smiling and laughing while somebody<br>in the village is very sick. There is laughter<br>every day in the terrible streets of Calcutta,<br>and the women laugh in the cages of Bombay.<br>If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction,<br>we lessen the importance of their deprivation.<br>We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,<br>but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have<br>the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless<br>furnace of this world. To make injustice the only<br>measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.<br>If the locomotive of the Lord runs us down,<br>we should give thanks that the end had magnitude.<br>We must admit there will be music despite everything&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6d6dbd7ba43a54dfd27a82c4412c4d74\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">\u201cWe think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. 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