HEIDEGGER - a philosphy of personal liberartion

One does what one does and lives the way one lives and that this is mostly thru social conditioning, and we are in general unconscious and completely unaware of why we do what we do.

This self, that does what one does in an “unreflexed” way, is a kind of zombie like state without real free will.
We are what we take ourselves to be after the fact, we are basically how we interpret ourselves.

So how is one to evolve from this “public us” and crystallize an authentic life?

A dasien is always dimly aware of the way the world is “ungrounded” and that there is no real reason why one has to do things, this way or that way.

It isn’t because there is a rational reason why we should do things one-way or another , it isn’t because god ordering us to do things this or that and it’s not because human nature ordered us to do things this way or that way…

It’s all rather unsettling and give rise to “angst”.

So what is one to do about it?

One can either flee from it “angst” and move into conformity, even more and more into conformity until one has completely merged into a completely inauthentic state of being. Thus we find ourselves in the lives wondering why.
OR
One can be aware of this very fact, that there is no reason, no real meaning, nothing that will really define one’s life, no project that will fulfil.

It is the HOW you do things not the why, the why only leads in the final analysis to meaninglessness, one stops trying to fulfil oneself in that fashion hoping that attaining this or that will finally relive this angst, that there is no real grounded purpose and once this is realised one can be free to live authentically.
To hold on to angst and that will catapult one in to authentic living.

This does not mean you have to change anything, or give up projects or desires or drop out, it’s a realization of the HOW one could live authentically.
You no longer have to respond always to the general situation you can also respond as well to the unique situation.
You can stick with things without getting stuck in things, falsely thinking that this will define one’s life and finally give it meaning.

One can do what ONE does authentically while still fitting in to the situation one finds oneself in without the grief.
Not trying to get absolute meaning out of things, Accepting the ungroundedness of life and not having to conform to get respectability.

Truly a liberation of the soul and mind, making one flexible and joyful “Freude”.