This week we've been asking ourselves a lot of questions around the topic of freedom. What is freedom exactly? Is it living as we choose, our spirits unchained and unhindered by expectations and obligations?

Many may think that discipline and freedom are opposite things. But they’re not! It takes more discipline to live free and prosper than to follow. Freedom also requires courage.

Gandhi said, “Freedom doesn’t mean the absence of restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in your choices in the face of an obstacle.”

Can we be free thinkers in a society of expectations, judgments, and conformity?  We live in what is euphemistically called a free country, but are we utilizing our freedom? Rosa Luxemburg wrote in Social Reform and Society, that “Freedom is always and exclusively for the one who thinks differently.” And Abraham Lincoln said it was the destiny of all people to be free.

As Projectors, it is our mission to free ourselves . . .  to rule our own realities. And we believe it is our duty to seek the truth. We consider dharma to be our ultimate purpose in life, the highest truth. Dharma is the practice of true freedom. And when we follow our hearts . . . our highest purpose in life . . . we feel liberated. “Just as there is only one taste in the ocean—the taste of salt—so in Buddhism there is only one taste. The taste of Freedom.”  ~ Buddha