Strange, how obediently we follow
When we listen to our experts.
Day after day we let ourselves be persuaded
That our world goes no further
Than what can be reduced to figures,
theorems, proofs.
We let them tell us: a different world,
A spiritual one maybe, spiritual beings,
Even a God – that’s all wishful thinking.
We let them wall us in.
We say: no one is free.
We are all shaped by our genes.
Our job maps our path.
We are fixed, we say,
and freedom is a dream.
But maybe we could be freer than we think
If we opened our eyes –
Both in our heart and in our spirit –
Maybe we could cross all borders
Drifting with the white clouds
Across the blue of an endless heaven.
(My translation)
catterel 
Causes, groups, principles, whatever we pledge some allegiance to requires obedience. Obedience is an ingredient in the glue that holds stuff together, right?
I like the drifting with the white clouds. I am not so sure about obedience being conducive to drifting freely.
No – his point is, that we should NOT follow conventional wisdom blindly but take the free drift of the clouds as a model, ignoring all obstacles and boundaries.