[MD] Free Will

[MarshaV]

On Jun 19, 2011, at 10:45 AM, X Acto wrote:

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> Marsha said:
> I have probably read more commentary about causation than any other 
> Buddhist explanation of Emptiness.  It is the first topic addressed in 
> Nagarjuna's MMK.  Nagarjuna's logic is not easy.  It seems he may 
> have been battling a particular form of logic, called Nyaya.  Regardless 
> of the methodology, causation has dissolved, for me, into interdependency, 
> entanglement.  And this does not diminish one's sense of responsibility 
> (caring) in the least; quite the opposite.  A multi-directional preference?    
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> I do not deny choice as a static pattern (conventional truth.)  But it implies a 
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> chooser and something chosen.  -  I know, I know, this drives every one crazy, 
> but I cannot divorce myself from my experience, just to fall into line.  Btw, 
> I'm 
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> not talking about the mountaintop form of experience, but a very potent 
> experience none the less.  
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> Ron:
> The chooser and the something chosen dilemma, is especially a dilemma when
> one considers both are composed of choices. The question then becomes what
> is the action of choice? some would say the very act of being is the act of 
> choice
> and if the explanation begins with this, the chooser and that which is chosen 
> dilemma
> is a conventional one.

Hi Ron, 

I'm not quite sure what you are suggesting, but it seems to me if mindful, experience 
flows smoothly without a need for choosing.  


Marsha



 
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