Freedom...

   The idea of a separate self arises from a believed conditioned concept of a seperate me and separate you.  Freedom naturally occurs when one is no longer attached to concepts of the mind regardless of what is playing out, no attachment to concepts melts away the attachment that one is a separate self. This non attachment to concepts is generally gradual....thus the freedom of awakening is continual within, until all concepts simply pass through...come and go and your natural peaceful freedom shines!