Reference: Subject Clearing Beingness
The free will is the ability to postulate sensibly. It is expressed as self-determinism.
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Definition of FREE WILL
One can postulate freely, and that postulate shows up as one’s self-determinism. However, The whole system of one’s postulates must be consistent within itself, else it would not work as intended. The moment one is unable to postulate according to the principle of Oneness, one’s Free Will is compromised.
The free will requires the ability to be self-aware because one’s self is part of one’s system of postulates. The actual source of this system is, of course, unknowable, but we identify it as the self that is manifested. The new postulates expand the self.
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Misconceptions
1. It is a misconception to think that one’s free will allows one to postulate whatever one wants and it would work. This is not so unless one’s new postulate is continuous, consistent and harmonious with the existing postulates and the idea of self. This condition applies to the so-called “own universe.”
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Comments
From the book: What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
“The question of Free Will has occupied an important place in Western thought and philosophy. But according to Conditioned Genesis, this question does not and cannot arise in Buddhist philosophy. If the whole of existence is relative, conditioned and interdependent, how can Will alone be free? Will, like any other thought, is conditioned. So-called ‘freedom’ itself is conditioned and relative. Such a conditioned and relative ‘Free Will’ is not denied. There can be nothing absolutely free, physical or mental, as everything is interdependent and relative. If Free Will implies a will independent of conditions, independent of cause and effect, such a thing does not exist. How can a will, or anything for that matter, arise without conditions, away from cause and effect, when the whole of existence is conditioned and relative, and is within the law of cause and effect? Here again, the idea of Free Will is basically connected with the ideas of God, Soul, justice, reward and punishment. Not only is so-called free will not free, but even the very idea of Free Will is not free from conditions.”