Liberation

Liberation appears where traditions diagnose bondage: craving, karma’s reel, ego’s theater, illusion (māyā), or cosmic disorder. Solutions diverge—insight, grace, devotion, ethical purification, mystical unknowing—but the conceptual arc shares a question: what would it mean for a person (or no-person) to be truly free in relation to ultimacy?

Western philosophy sometimes translates liberation into autonomy; Buddhist and Daoist texts may suspect that very hunger for control. Spinoza’s beatitudo and Rumi’s love-poems are not identical idioms, yet both train desire differently than mere appetite.

Karen Armstrong-style emphases on compassion and practice help readers see liberation as formation, not only proposition.

This entry tracks liberation as a telos concept alongside salvation—siblings in grammar, not duplicates in geography.