Free will, by Avasa

Whatever choice is made is freely made in that it is a result of the circumstances that the body/mind finds itself in, which are one thing. The chooser, the choice made and the thing chosen are One action. Consciousness and its object are always One.
The form cannot act outside of the given circumstances of the moment that it finds itself in.
The idea that another choice could have been made is an error, this error too is at the same time an impersonal action arising in consciousness. The choice that is made is the only one that was made because it was the only one that COULD have been made because of the circumstances of that particular moment. It was made by no one! just an action unfolding within the Whole.
There is a train of thought that gives the impression that things can be other than they actually are but as things are as they are and not as they are not it is not provable. It is therefore just another of the many theories based upon the idea that things can be other than they are when clearly they can only be as they actually are.
These theories, which are all based upon the holding to of the concept that there is someone within the form, tend to fall away once it is seen that there is no one and that all is action only being witnessed by an inactive Awareness.
If it is seen that there is no one within the form in actuality then it is clear that there is no one who has free will for there is no one TO have it, yet thought arises and out of the many thoughts that appear certain ones are the ones that are put forward as choices or decisions and others are simply not put forward in this way.
This is the mystery which will never be solved.
That the One consciousness that lives as and through all forms naming itself “I” or “me” creates is a fact but how this does so will never be known. There is no plan prior to the appearance of the thought as it appears out of an empty Awareness.
Although it appears that it is the thoughts and feelings themselves that are the actual stuff of creating this is not so for they themselves are made out of the non-stuff which witnesses there appearance. This witnessing Awareness which is not locatable within time and space, is the One that gives rise to them and it is this that is the actual creator.
Thoughts are a manifest part of the process of manifestation.
SO….. as long as the concept that one is something or someone within the form is believed and persists so does the concept of free will. Once this belief falls away so does the question of free will when it is seen that there is no one to have such a thing.
The One Awareness which alone is responsible for all of creation creates freely without choices or decisions, such things are part of what is already created.

Bodhi Avasa
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