[BratscheWarrior]

But from my personal understanding, I'd say anyone who sees must already know that we are already free. Our imprisonment is merely conceptual. It begins with the concept of "I". But "I" and "imprisonment" are just concepts; they have no actual independant existence. You can think about them, but you can't hold them in your hands or see them or be them. Freedom has no requirements. It is not a condition or a state. It is the ground of being in which all thoughts, conditions and states arise in.

I have to respectfully disagree with you here. We are not free. We are not free. We are not free. In all the time that i've been on this Path, i have observed how everyone (including myself) has been programmed to act in certain ways. Ways that we would consider Uncontrolled Folly. You said about the non-dualists (whoever they are):

"They respond to this one basic fact differently, however. The warrior says, "Let's control our folly." And the non-dualist says, "If folly is what is happening then it is what is. There's no need for me to identify with it or think about it in any way."

Now how naive is that? Thinking that Uncontrolled Folly is acceptable. This is the attitude of the average man. Accepting that things can't change. Accepting that it is desirable to be a stooge. To be an average man. Why accept events whose outcomes are a product of what is less than our best? Jeez, i encounter this attitude every day. The slogan of the average man is "Be Mediocre."

Our slogan? "Get the best out of every situation." Or even simpler, "Save Energy". That is the rule.