Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity. Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge which are inseparable from time and the past.
Time is the psychological enemy of man.
Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. There is no psychological evolution. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time. When there is negation of all those things that thought has brought about psychologically, only then is there love, which is compassion and intelligence.