Questions and Replies

This question, and a series of replies from a variety of
different teachers, will be included in the 2001 issue of
Kriben Pillay's annual Noumenon journal.


Question #21
There appear to be two schools of thought relative to
the issue of free will. One is like J. Krishnamurti's,
which implies we have a kind of free will which we can
use to break through delusion, and the other is like
Balsekar's, which says there is no free will and that
all is pre-determined, even the desire to break through. 

Somehow, my gut instinct tells me that Life is like an
improvisation rather than a fixed script, and while I
once had a powerful experience of being lived by Life,
it still felt like an improvisation, a potential rather
than a fixed plan. This also accords with quantum physics.

What is your view of this issue?


Reply
I am not free not to see 
what I have already seen --
and yet, within this Seeing
lies absolute freedom!


"We cannot help breathing,
and yet it seems that 
breath is under our control;
we both breathe and are breathed."
			   -- Alan Watts


"The blue mountains are of themselves
	blue mountains;
The white clouds are of themselves
	white clouds."	   -- Zenrin Kushu


Is this freedom or destiny?
I say, ask the blue mountains;
ask the white clouds.

 
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