Free means you're out of a job.
It means you never had a job to begin with.
It means there's nothing left to do and no one to do it.
It means no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, color, sound, taste,
or what the mind takes hold of.
It means it's raining today.
L It means my ears are ringing, and my legs are crossed.
It means no matter what, no matter how badly you have fucked up, everything is OK and has always been OK.
It means there's nothing to get because there's nothing to lose.
And, by the way, it means you can drop that big, heavy bag of shit you've been dragging around for a lifetime.
It means your train just ran out of track.
And that's the best thing possible.
It means nothing,
nobody,
empty space,
the end,
free.
Mike, as usual my mind engages with your words instead of letting them flow past like a gurgling clear mountain stream.
"It means no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, color, sound, taste," together with the final lines suggest "no experience." I've never had "no experience." Even when I imagine, as Alan Watts suggested, going to sleep and never waking up, i.e., death, it is the experience of imaging no experience.
For me, "It means nothing, nobody, empty space, the end, free." captures it well, except in the selfless empty freedom remains the experience of mystery, aliveness in the cloud of unknowing.
Is that also an aspect of your experience?
Noel