The funny thing that it can be both: freedom is in our mind and it is not. There are two main pints here:
1. Freedom is in our mind because there are so many things around us that affect our life; there are so many laws and forces we cannot control that influence us, so often we just dream about real freedom, not more…
2. Freedom is in our mind, because the reality is a kind of “reflection” of our consciousness, our mental experience. In this case we can say that the real freedom is in the mind and it can be controlled from there.
The problem is that mind is difficult to control hence we have strong people who completely unable to control themselves from within. SO the freedom starts from ourselves, we need to learn how to become free, and it is the personal, individual path nobody can tread it for us but only we…