It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your thoughts. The kind of person you are comes from the way you think. And it bleeds into the way you feel. And such forth. If the mind is not free, then we won't be free.
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years - the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.
As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices.
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.