When your mind is free, not concerned, or worried, or focused on anything
in particular, and your heart is not grasping or clinging to anything, then
you are free. The most characteristic quality is that there is no fixation
on anything; you’re not focused on any issue or experience. Whatever is
there, is there. So there is a freedom of mind. The mind is not saying, “I
want this,” or “I want to look at this,” or “It has to be this way.” The
mind is loose. The expression “hang loose” tells us what it means to be
liberated.
~ A.H. Almaas