How is loosing all hope freedom?

Question

In class we are studying the inner meaning and why "loosing all hope is freedom" could possibly be TRUE, and relate to modern day life?

Is it possible to lose ALL hope?,,...and is there suhc thing as "rock bottom"

Answer 1

If you lose all hope in something you are actually becoming free from your hope in that thing. So technically, you are free.

Answer 2

What an awesome question. How is it for you when you loose something? There is a relationship of some kind that dictates where we go with stuff like this. Loosing might suck. So then what is your relationship to the suckiness of loosing --and the answer is not...well everybody feels that way. Use your honesty to get down to the relationship that makes all this real to you. Question why you follow that hope leads you in any specific direction. Question how much freedom you can stand before you get freaked out. To directly answer your question I'd have to say that the deconstruction of a paradigm opens up a new space for the opportunity to experience freedom. Doesn't neccessarily mean you will get it though, especially if your caught up in the human drama. When your cup is empty that's when your cup can be filled with something else.

Answer 3

Hope is in itself a sort of bond. Hoping for a better tomorrow means admitting that today is not pleasant,means that today you are not free. Hope and regret are 2 references for imaginary time sequences that man has made to organize his memories so as he wont be confused to recall and predict. In reality ,there is no past,and there is no future,all there is is the present,the absolute present.
Modern life strives to make human life the eaisest possible ,and in order to do so,it needs to get rid of all man worries that are a result of a lack of technology to ensure a worries-free life.
Remember,just before people were worrying about many things we dont worry about today,that we are free from worrying about,but still,we have many things to worry about!
So YES,losing all hope in the future is gaining all happiness and accomplishment in the present itself,which meand eternal freedom .

Answer 4

If there is no hope of one's life ever being satisfying, then one is free to do what you choose without regard to whether it will improve one's life circumstances. But people who have lost hope tend to become slaves to their own appetites and desires, and are thus not truly free.

Anyone who has ever worked with chronic alcholics will tell you there really is such a thing as "rock-bottom" and people who have truly and completely given up hope. But in this case I don't believe the lack of hope makes them free, because they are slaves to a substance that has completely taken over their lives.

Answer 5

well, i kinda agree with the first answerer...if you lose hope, then you are no longer trying. In other words, you are free of trying; free of anticipating disappointment. It is as if you chose to die...then if it comes along, you don't mind, therefore free of fear...etc. Losing all hope, in a way, is freedom...yet you are not free to have what you gave up hope on in the first place. Also, i believe there is always hope, but sometimes we choose to ignore it..and claim losing it.

Answer 6

confident, i understand with the aid of own existence adventure that dropping all desire is amazingly liberating. It enables me to be interior the now & no longer have my head interior the clouds or residing on some fairy tale international that would not exist. I view it as a sort of self-safety. perplexing to fathom in case you haven't any longer have been given my concepts or family individuals historic previous. it works for me & I openingly stay my existence understanding there is not any desire....there is largely the now! If issues are solid - it rather is nice sized. in the event that they at the instant are not - it rather is nice sized too! the two way, i'm nevertheless alive & won't have any permit downs or disappointments interior the way of unrealistic expectancies!

Answer 7

No expectations, no longer a slave to expectations.

If I no longer hope to meet the women of my dreams I am free to act like I choose around women even if it will never get me into bed with them.

If I don't hope to get rich or live a middle class lifestyle, I can be free from a job.

Answer 8

Because focusing on "hope" is not the same as "having" so you would never get what you want. Once you've freed yourself from this mindset, more options lay out in from of you and you can take action on things you want and have freedom!

Answer 9

i got pulled over by a cop at 3am last year.my rear licence plate was missing,and i had a spare (the little undersized donut kind) tire on the front driver side,because earlier that evening i crashed into a divider.i was half smashed and high.i resigned myself to the fact that i was going to jail.there was no chance in hell im talking my way out of this one.so,i turned off my car,threw the keys on the dash,and worldlessly handed over my DL and papers.i was completely calm and accepting of the inevitable.i guess i played it so cool,he didnt think to take a look at me and,i guess,didnt notice my condition.i got away scott free.i dont really know what my point is,but i am anticipating the enjoyment i will get out of reading everyones outraged response to my evening out.

Answer 10

without hope you have no bounds. this is not freedom .freedom comes by finding your place in the world around you and making a world with in the world that is freedom and it brings hope