SPIRIT TALK #5| "Is there free will?"
Free will. Free from what? Will of whom? Free from thoughts, emotions and other people actions. Will of whom? What are you? Are you your thoughts? you emotions? your actions?
So, is it thought trying to get free from thought? Emotion trying to get rid of emotion? And action tries to stop? You think that if you were able to fulfill every desire, that if you had just enough power that you would be free. You choose only when you are free, when you are following your desires you are not free, they guide you, they rule you.
Your body, your mind, your emotions, your energies, they rule you. To rule them, you must stop desiring. And there are many ways to do this. Desiring is one, follow your desires, follow your heart desires, sooner or later they will stop and you will see the vanity of the thing.
Freedom is to do what is necessary happily. The real question is not about freedom. The only thing that exist is freedom.
But can you take it? Can you be responsible? Can you be conscious when you are choosing? If you are asleep and just following your body or what the mind says blindly, then you really deserve your enslavement.