Tuesday, December 31, 2024
The universe does it all. It births itself, it lives out its life’s story, and it kills itself. Sounds similar to a human life. In some way you birthed yourself. You’re living out your life’s story, seemingly making choices and doing things “on your own.” Then you kill yourself. Does anybody die of “unnatural” causes? All death is natural.
We speak of birth and death as something that happens to us. We just “happen to” have been birthed, and we will just “happen to die.” If someone takes her own life, is that a happening or a choice? There is a fishy difference between a happening and so-called freewill or choice.
Are smokers, the sedentary, and overeaters slowly committing suicide? Are druggies and the obese killing themselves? Why would a gun to the head count as suicide and overeating not? There is a grey area in the realm of freewill. Overeaters can’t help it. Can those who commit suicide “help it?” When will the keys of “freewill” be handed over? It seems like it comes and goes and the authority lies outside of the realm of me.
Who is doling out the freewill, seemingly making it come and go, especially to the poor saps who “can’t help it?” How is it that some can help it and others can’t? Who’s deciding? God, you say? If freewill is handed over, then it’s not freewill anymore. If it comes and goes, then it’s completely phony.
Truth is, the universe is doing. Even this duplicitous trick of choice and freewill is part of its flashiness. Once you stop buying into it, you feel free. You give back the keys of freewill because you never had them in the first place. Those keys don’t unlock a damn thing. If you want to be free, give back your perception of freewill. In some way, having no choice is freedom.
Happy New Year!
Same to you, my friend.
Thank you for the daily writings, they are a good substitute for the noisy social media cravings in the morning.
While I think that you are kind of right with your “dismissal” of so called free will, I am not sure that there isn’t such a thing at all.
My interpretation is that free will is the same as Schrodinger’s cat: You similarly have it and you don’t have it. Same as in quantum mechanics where a particle can move in opposing directions at the same time.
I don’t have proof for this but it just feels right to me.
Have a happy and blessed new year my friend! 🙂
I like your interpretation. Living in duality reminds us that having a freewill and not having one is somehow equal and can stand together. Thanks for the thought….I’ll ponder it.
and have a great new year too!