Non Duality (Who's Making the Choices?) 

What is your experience of free will and/ or choice?

First 2 minutes of this is all "anybody" should need, fantastic sir.

“It doesn’t mean it’s real, it’s just our experience.” So true, thanks! 💙😁🐡

You find the coolest spots to film your videos!!! ;)

For me, being able to give up any idea of free will was when the struggle really stopped. And when a question does arise I know exactly where it comes from. This ego never wants feel helpless.

I was hoping you would address this. Thanks for doing so and for every other video of yours, they are very helpful and invaluable 🙏

After your last video, I dreamed I was trying to look in the rear view mirrors of my car. Then I realized I couldn't see anything because they were gone. I turned around and realized I'd dismantled them and thrown them in the back seat. When I recalled this dream in the morning, I started laughing at the message from my subconscious which seems to be don't look back. It will be easy for me to remember now to not look back because of the laugh I had about the dream. In my dream the car was stopped. I will just rest here...now. Thanks as always for these brilliant pointings.

The more "choices" the more regrets for what could have been "better" and the more we suffer... this makes awakening so desirable that it's so relieving to know it's always available to us... but I guess the only way out is to stop seeking and relax... let it go... let it flow... isn't it?

Beautiful! Thanks man 😊.

You keep posting on what I’m working, like almost every day 😂 almost scary

I’m so conditioned by my upbringing and beliefs it’s difficult to truly know when acting on free will isn’t caught up by this. I chose to turn situations into being positive experiences as best I can.

Love your Channel by the way, Im glad I found you with Alan in Simulation, you have good quality non dual teachings 🙏

omg u so awesome :) this video was so fluent 🥹 made me cry at the end - thank you 🙏

Some years ago, I have no idea why, I started to pay close attention to my "decision making". What I found was that for most every decision, large and small, I would go through a lot of mental effort analyzing the possible outcomes and implications, finally reaching a decision. Sometimes that would only take a few seconds. But then I what I actually did, the action I performed, did NOT match my decision so often that it became obvious that I really do not have free will on the personal identity level, that it is an after the fact conclusion based on not examining reality and wanting to have control.

this is solid gold. Thank you Angelo.

Thank you I am/we are the feeling tone of being 💜🙏

It's an excellent video. Thank you.🙏

So beautifully said!❤

I used to struggle to keep up with these videos. Trying to make sense of them. There have been doubt thoughts about recent insight but they are faint and just thoughts! After the insight the video and what’s presented is so much more clear. I always had the sense that once a shift happened I would understand. Now it’s known that I could never really understand and that understanding has very little if anything to do with this. Yet somehow the video just makes sense now. A thought arises wondering if I have just constructed a no-self. But that’s just another thought. Well that was fun playing with the mind from here.

Thank you for all your interesting videos. While the human body here has no "free will " The being does. ; o ) Really enjoyed your graphics. The anonymous masks was a nice touch.

This is the rock upon which my sense of separate self foundered. The feeling of free will was the glue that held my ego in place. Looking inside now I see that "decisions" arise from emptiness. Who is there to "chose" that is separate from what is?

Learned about soft will & Hard will vs Determinism by watching a very old talk given by scientist, philosopher and inventor of the bell helicopter- Arthur Young. He incorporated a mathematical equation to determine his position on it which was fascinating.

There is really just one choice in every moment: to open or to close, to extend or to contract, to orient towards form or formlessness, to resist or to be one etc. The mind likes to believe it has chosen. spirit chooses indeed but that is something of a transcendental mystery. Spirit may have a good reason for contracting. Why else would it?

There is no one to have free will. There is no free will to have a person.

I don't know, let me check -- hmm nope, can't find him.

Choice is a thought! 🤯

Hey, Thank you for your great work! What happens if we are adding little bit more complexity to Non Duality. Yes, we are all fractals of One. And jet we have several dimensions, traveling thru those dimensions increases our ability to experience or perceive reality. From the first dimension mineral world, till last dimensions where we are transcending physical vehicle. Apparently for higher developed being(also humans) there is some sort of free will. We can make choices, learn lessons to liberate us from this karmic wheel faster. But the "choice" is a bit different then we are used to understand. We are "choosing" one event instead of other. That's how we are making parallel reality with in this dimension and both events are playing out- but in one of them we are liberating us faster from karmic wheel, what allows us to grow and experience this reality in greater scale. Maybe both of those events are written before - that's why that choice (free will) is not so Free, but still we can take path with more love. Some say that Source is investigating itself - so Source need jet to discover it's full potential. And we like fractals are doing this investigation in several density levels. Why I am thinking about this? Because here is around us also other highly developed souls, who are traying to understand this convoluted universe and they're explanations seems to be more explanatory, then those ones from Non-Duality circles. I appreciate your help and I would love to hear your opinion on this!

Sorry i'm late, You said : "The thought caught my attention”, so does attention become the absolute landmark, life itself, or is it still a relatively possible landmark subject to experience? Suffering is the uppermost layer, covering all the layers of our lives. I mean all of us. I am convinced that it is not the base layer. For this game, or for the big game, you choose, it is a cost and not a price, this being already a composite, the layers of (or in) life being the sum of already composed elements. The understanding of the transition is the understanding of each moment movement also of all of them. Even risking to move all, just în one way. So, you are the scientist, I am the dreamer . Excellent experiences. Tank you again. Sorry for related english issues. Daniel, Romania.

Love this!

Can you answer me in the last video please? I have some relative serious questions, nice video again btw

From what i can tell at the moment, we have Will, but it isn't free. It is trapped within conditioned thought and behaviour. "Choice" is usually one of those conditioned thoughts or it's opposite, or a few options from a very blinkered view of the variables and paths cognitively assessed. I certainly do and did things on autopilot, while it really looked like there was some sort of choice or consideration going on. Breaking the identification with those patterns (pulls and pushes in mind) comes from centering in and as the self. Also just focusing on something difficult to focus on grows Will. But as far as making choices, it does seem that being unconditioned self brings more choices, which appear as thought, as image and as feeling. And it seems, at the moment, less pull towards the conditioned self patterns, and more natural ability to do... words, limited... something else.

Your shirt is super trippy

Please, correct me if I'm wrong in everything I'm going to say below... I had no control when I wanted to ask these questions. I had no control of the questions I wrote even though I thought of every word I used in the question. Even the decision to have control is also not in my control. And the decision to don't have control is also not in my control. But my main question is: Even an Awakened person also has no control of what the body/mind of this person decides to do? You have no control over what you think, feel, do or say? If so, then does that mean you have no control of what you're going to answer me even if you're thinking about every word you're going to use in the answer ? So, you have no control over wanting or not wanting to answer my questions ? 🤔

Yesssss!! Wow!

Can you control your shirt selection for a green screen recording? Or did your free will try to mess with my mind on purpose? 😉

Can I control whether this body-mind apparatus surrenders rather than seeks? I sense no

Awesome

Thanks Angelo! Is there a difference between free will and intent? I am asking as on the one hand, the experience is as you describe it. Willing something is an afterthought to a spontaneous arising. On the other hand there seems to be also "intent" (like a potential held) that can be nurtured? and results after a while in a specific happening? Or is that just attention lingering on the happening? Guess my question is, if there is some wiggle room for agendas of meaning.

makes sense. basically in earth's weather system, is each hurricane is an individual? does it have a fixed boundary? is it choosing to go northwards to spare (or level) a town? same with each instance of storm, cloud, rain etc. every phenomenon is intimately connected in an inherently 'chaos theoretic' system. ps: orignal analogy from TNH it rains does not mean there has to be a rain-er.

Thanks

I don't get how this philosophy is compatible with everyday life. My life clearly is different when I go to work and make a living or when I sit at home all day. Of course there are choices. Different options I can pick from.

This is complex, though, and you can understand why this is a hot topic?? I’d simply ask, who or what made the decision to make this video?

"Intimacy is infinite"...love the reality this points to...and so grateful for this pointing dear One 🙏💞🥰🥳❌⭕

But why bother doing anything if you dont have a choice??? I dont understand it?

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This video made me trip balls

You are Reality -- the Reality has no outside factors that influence it -- it is itself fully causative, while not caused -- therefore you are fully causative -- therefore you have free will.

This video kinda saved me from becoming completely mad🫠