There is no freedom without control

We were watching the dog trainer at work. The dogs set free in the field to sit motionless, imprisoned by invisibility.

There is freedom, and there is true freedom. The dog learns control so it is freed from the wilderness of its free mind. Only when one masters control of one’s mind does one free it from the initial settings of mindlessness.

There is no freedom without control.

Freedom comes from the control to choose freedom.

Light has no meaning without darkness, unable to illuminate forms without shadows. (Insight from Ursula LeGuin’s The Left Hand of Darkness)

Can the control of one’s mind be a measure of intelligence? If so which plants, animals or forms of life has the most control?

Why is the control of one’s mind considered a mastery towards intelligence or a more evolved existence? Is it because control enables us to truly see things for what they are, free from cloaks and distractions? To be able to see things and systems for what they are is a form of wisdom, a step closer to knowing rather than unknowing, even though there may not be one true truth.

To know, mindfully, is to embody wisdom, and so to be free to be free, or free to be deterministic, imprisoned as the dog was.