Part 13 - The Turning Point Where Liberation Begins
(Breaking the Link From Feeling to Craving)
We cannot stop contact.
We cannot stop feelings.
The world will continue to touch us.
Sights, sounds, messages, memories—
all will keep arriving.
Liberation does not come
by changing the world
or changing our senses.
Liberation comes from breaking
one single link:
Feeling → does not become craving.
When a feeling remains
just a feeling,
there is no fuel
for the sense of “I” to form.
This turning point happens instantly
A sensation arises.
A feeling arises.
And then:
Option A → “I want / I hate / I need / I fear”
Option B → “Just this feeling — passing”
If Option B is chosen—
or seen naturally—
the entire chain of suffering collapses:
- no craving
- no clinging
- no identity
- no birth of self
- no fear
- no sorrow
- no suffering
Right now.
Not at the end of life.
Freedom is not a future achievement
It is a present event
No matter who you are,
no matter your past,
no matter your habits:
The moment craving does not arise,
suffering does not arise.
You are free
in that moment.
This is why the Buddha said:
“In this fathom-long body
lies the origin of the world,
the ending of the world,
and the path that leads to its ending.”
Freedom is not somewhere else.
It is in this moment
before “I” interferes.
The path is not about becoming better
It is about becoming less
Less controlled by urges
Less defined by praise or blame
Less owned by emotions
Less constructed by stories
Less reborn as someone who must struggle
This is why the path is called:
the cessation of becoming
(bhavanirodha)
The less “I” arises,
the more peace appears.
The simple formula of liberation
When feeling is known as just feeling:
Craving has no ground to grow
and the whole cycle ends.
This is the real turning point:
not in philosophy or belief,
but in the living moment
of contact with life.
One sentence summary of Part 13
Liberation begins the moment feeling
does not become craving.