Three Ways To Dismantle Free Will (Episode 4 of What is Non-duality?) Richard Sylvester
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Richard explores the myth of free will and three ways to dismantle it - 1/. philosophically, 2/. through the discoveries of neuroscience and 3/. through the direct seeing that can take place in non-dual awakening (the "mystical apprehension"). The reading is taken from Richard's book 'Confessions Of A Seeker'.
Richard has been giving talks on non-duality since 2005 and has written four books about it, including the much-loved little classic ‘I Hope You Die Soon’. His fifth book, ‘Confessions of a Seeker’ is about his many years as a spiritual seeker but it also includes chapters on free will, consciousness and religion. It is sometimes extremely funny (one reader laughed so much she had to stop reading it in public places) and sometimes profoundly serious.
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My main thing with free will is this. Sure, there’s no free will...but there’s also no self that “lacks” it. That second part is equally as important. Once it’s seen, it’s more like the very idea of free will doesn’t make much sense. Life becomes like a perfectly fitting glove, rather than something shoving “you” around (as it’s easy for the mind to interpret it).
Edit: and ok, let’s say there quite literally IS such a thing as a homunculus in the brain, some kind of transcendent soul that we could call “will”. How would that soul possibly ‘control’ its own actions? The quote “man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills” comes to mind. Even this ectoplasm would be another empty process. The same would apply to an Abrahamic god-emptiness applies no matter the underlying metaphysics. Everything is just “happening” entirely of itself. How could it be otherwise? ;) Love your work, Richard 💙
Nothing Matters = (emptiness mattering)
It doesn’t matter. free will vs not free will is duality. Everything is as it is. If one perceives they have free will or not, then that’s just what’s happening in the perfection of the absolute.
Understanding there's nobody to have or not have free will is the freedom from will
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Free will doesn't exist but there is will which is desire intensified and the factor that creates conflicts and intensifies the sense of separation
Whose will?😊
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Wonderful. Thank you for sharing, Richard. You mention neuroscience toward the end. Made me think of the short but excellent book, Free Will by Sam Harris. Be well!
I love much of what Sam Harris both writes and says including his book Free Will, but in it and in other places he steps back from the final implications of "no self". Sam also deserves great respect for taking on (and in my view beating) Jordan Peterson in debate. If you haven't yet seen their four-part debate (available on TH-cam), sit back and enjoy😊.
@@richardsylvester Thank you. I will look for that!
@@richardsylvester Sam Harris definitely believes and often talks about no self on his Waking Up app, so what are the final implications of no self he fails to reach?
Richard, just a word of thanks, something you said a while back really appeared to help me. When 'seeing' or whatever you want to call it happened here, which is not long ago, I swore I'd never go on social media and talk about it, there's so many doing it and what difference does it make anyway? I know there's some people who just love to talk about it and fair play to them. But here's a thought that might help some, while the whole non duality thing is going crazy on TH-cam, Facebook etc there are, I don' know, thousands, maybe tens of thousands, who knows how many people, who have had realisation and don't want to, or don't see the point in going public about it. It's just a thought.
Yes, the character either will or will not want to communicate about this, and of course it doesn't matter which😊
"No free will" is a story. "Free will" is a story. Both are beliefs associated with different forms of universal energy acting as humans. This form (me) also expresses a story in which there is a belief that my universe is infinite and without boundaries. Human forms cannot yet create a story to "prove" that one way or another. But in my story, an inifine universe must have free will. Anything less than that puts boundaries on infinity--which is not possible.
Good point! So the (me) has no free will. But if we are all ultimately the the unviverse/self /God /love. Whatever word you want use then there is free will, as you say, its all infinite, unconditional 🤔
Free will does exist,as an illusion,like the self,they are not inherently real things
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