The Inner & Outer Freedom

By Yasuhiko Genku Kimura

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Immortalis Prime Law Preface

In the Immortalis framework, sovereignty begins within. The Prime Law forbids force, fraud, and coercion not only in society but in consciousness itself — for true freedom cannot coexist with dependency on external authority. Here, the author reveals that inner sovereignty and social evolution are inseparable: each awakened individual (the Monad) becomes a builder of a freer civilization. This is the fusion of East and West, self and world — the awakening of the Sovereign Integral, where Prime Law becomes lived consciousness.

In 1996, I wrote "A Letter to the History Makers", which contains the following sentence:

“We human beings are not at our best when we are engaging in abstract Solitary reflection or in our individual transformation for its own sake, but when we are engaged in the act of transforming the world, in the act of history making."

More than 20 years prior (c. 1974) when I was a 20-year old Zen monk, I realized:

"Even if the rest of humanity is suffering, I can be in bliss alone, but unless the rest of humanity attains the same bliss, my spiritual awakening/enlightenment will never be complete.”

In other words, in terms of freedom, we each can achieve inner freedom even if the rest of humanity is internally unfree and psychological enslaved, but that individual inner freedom is never complete until all of humanity is free internally and externally. Humanity is human-unity, and we are all so intimately interconnected across space and time.

All spiritual teachings in their esoteric core teach this inner freedom, which is J. Krishnamurti's First and Last Freedom, and yet when they become organized and are reduced to belief systems, instead of being the teachings of inner freedom, they become a tool of psychological manipulation and enslavement.

We are each A World (or Universe), unique and singular, never to be repeated in the whole history of the Universe. That world can be an enlightened world and everything that exists therein can be experienced in the light of enlightened awareness.

THE World (or Universe) of which we partake is created through our communicative interactions. Hence, Buckminster Fuller states: "(The) Universe (World) is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences."

Your World, You as a World, is a Monad*. It is a case of Monadology. The World, of which you partake through communicative interaction, is a Society. It is a case of Sociology.

We are each a Monad and exist in a Society. When one becomes awakened, the whole Monad becomes awakened, and through communicative interactions, one can sociologically influence the evolution of human consciousness.

The Monad has no window because you cannot experience the experience of another person. Yet, in the enlightened world that is you, an awakened cosmic individuality (indivisible wholeness of being), each human being who appears and exists in your world is a cosmic portal through which you can uniquely understand him or her as a World.

Spiritual awakening is a monadological phenomenon, and hence it is entirely the matter of individual responsibility. Taking responsibility is the act of taking a quantum leap from the orbit of psychological dependency upon all forms of external authority (including the "God") into the orbit of internal monadological integrity and power-that is, internal self-authority and individual sovereignty

Transformation of the world is therefore the act of spiritually awakened and awakening Sovereign Individuals (Monads) co-creating a Sovereign Integral (Society/World).

In the past, the East focused primarily on monadic individual transformation, while the West focused primarily on social collective transformation. Today, the East and the West must meet in the act of monadic and social, or internal and external, transformation of the Self and the World —of the l as a World and the World as a We.

* Here and elsewhere I expand the meaning of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's original conception of the monad from the atoms with individuality to the World of Experience/Consciousness of each individual human being.