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Being free requires you to think critically before reacting.

I think it means that independence and a critical spirit do not back down in the face of the response they provoke in others.

To be free of mind is to have independent intellect.When we achieve a liberated state of mind that is free of habitual and learned concepts and perceptions it becomes the point of view from which reactions that were based on on our previous intellectual dependant state cease.This is our true nature..our spirit. from which we act unconditionally and spontaneously instead of reacting from acquired dependency on a mind that has been mentally and socially conditioned to do so.