Saturday, September 12, 2015

NONDUALITY AND FREE WILL



Some nonduality says there is free will and some says there is not. It might be best to say that it is not known, or provable that there is or is not. A common example, in nonduality nomenclature, might go as follows: Since there is no self, and only an appearance of self that comes in as a tool, one goes and looks at an apple and an orange on a table. It appears that the self has a choice, and after considering the orange, changes and picks the apple, but all this is appearing in the oneness and the apparent one appearing in the oneness would have always picked ultimately the apple though it appears like an actual choice to that one. But, that being said, how is anyone to know there is not a self? And a choice? It seems progressive, evolved, radical, enlightened, to say that there is not a little robot inside the brain, or a soul inside the body (or outside), that makes choices. How daring. But, maybe there is, and that soul carries on after death, negotiates new territory. The only way to say is that we do not know. One that says they know one way or the other might be intentionally or unintentionally misguided or misguiding others. It seems like we have a choice, so we will carry on that way.

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