#- 1-: This issue typically arises for people who have a taste of essence, some experience of their true nature, because the taste brings an appetite for complete liberation. Liberation or freedom is not really concerned with any particular essential aspect, quality, or state. It does not matter what essential state exists in the experience of liberation. If you are free from personality, you are free no matter what the state is. In the state of liberation the content of experience becomes unimportant. It is very ordinary. Nothing specific happens, no huge realization or mind-shattering experience. It is the most natural state. It is so ordinary and so natural that when we have it, we don't know we have it.
#-2-: Being liberated means there is no clinging to anything; there is no worry, no concern, no heaviness. The mind is not fixated, focused or bound to any particular content; we are aware of whatever arises in the mind, without effort, without even trying to be aware. We don't care whether we are sensing our essence, or even whether our essence is there. Whether we are happy or sad, whether a person is there with us or not, none of these things seem important. For the moment we're completely free from all the concerns in our life. This state can never be achieved by striving for it. It will just happen one day, and if you notice it you won't think it's a big deal. You'll go on eating your dinner or whatever you are doing. The moment it becomes a big deal, it's gone. The moment you have the attitude of, "Oh, wonderful! I want to know what's going on-I want to hang on to this," it's gone. Holding on is exactly what is absent in this state, and because of the tendency to grasp this subtle state, it can be very fleeting. It's very simple, the simplest thing there is.
#- 3-: It is a state of release, but without a conscious feeling of release; everything is loose. This condition of freedom is not like liberation from some particular oppression; it is the raw state of liberation itself, so liberating that it doesn't matter what our experience is. We don't care what we're experiencing. Our heart is open and our mind doesn't fixate on preconceived ideas or worry about imagined possibilities. We're completely accepting without thinking or feeling that we're accepting. Essence will be there freely in whatever way our being needs at that moment, but still the presence of essence is not our focus, it's just who we are, what is present in our experience now.