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Freewill and Liberation
The question of freewill is a useful one. It shows the mind has arrived at a point of acknowledging the dissonance between the appearance of causal inevitability and the mind’s own true nature, which is pure freedom, or liberation.
We wrestle with the question of freewill versus determinism at a certain level, but at another, higher level this is resolved completely and effortlessly. That is liberation.
The structures and models which we hold before ourselves as true are only real so long as we invest them with life. As soon as we decline to empower them, they vanish like the myths they are.
Only what is exists, and only living is able to really meet life.
Causation is like one facet of life. It is a particular way of looking at things, but it is not absolute or conclusive.
It seems that whenever thinking appears, so does the thinker and the thought. They appear to be one thing with discernable aspects or faces. It appears to be impossible to isolate them. Only, if we desist for a moment and allow what is beforehand to speak…
Causation can be discovered in the world when we look for it, but it remains only a projection of the mind onto things. When the mind withholds its power, causation ceases to exert its force, and things happen or not according to their immediate nature…
