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by andrei_says_
617 days ago
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One of Advaita’s (nonduality) pointers is to observe one’s choices and find this independent/free will we believe we have. I’ve watched my choices for about a decade now and have not been able to find anything like independent choice. Everything I observe is dependent on something else (genetics, conditioning, environment, external or internal event), or a manifestation of a preference, currently active desire, emotion, thought or need. Once I noticed that these are all spontaneous or predetermined I can no longer see the concept of “free will” as anything but an unpacked box containing a bunch of phenomena. Another pointer of Advaita is that our brains tend to hold a view of a free will universe, or a pre-determined universe - which is a limit of the mind not the universe itself :) |
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