DOING WHATEVER YOU WANT IS NOT FREEDOM

Penang Retreat Nov 2019 Q&A Group 2 Round 4 (39:40-40:24)

Yogi: I like freedom.

Sayadaw: Doing whatever you want is not freedom. It actually means that there is no freedom. 

It is craving. Freedom means there is no defilement – when wisdom can decide need or not, should or not, and necessary or not. Only then, that is real freedom.

Lobha is not freedom. Normal people in the mundane world think that doing whatever they like is freedom.